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Surface and Meteorological Data at Huab River Valley, Skeleton Coast National Park, Namibia in September 2019

Dataset title Surface and Meteorological Data at Huab River Valley, Skeleton Coast National Park, Namibia in September 2019
Dataset creators Joanna M. Nield, University of Southampton
Giles F.S. Wiggs, University of Oxford
Matthew C. Baddock, Loughborough University
Pauline Delorme, University of Southampton
Dataset theme Geoscientific Information
Dataset abstract

Wind, sediment transport and surface/saltation data collected at Huab River Valley during a field campaign in September 2019 to investigate saltation on gravel and sand surfaces.

Surface/saltation data: This is terrestrial laser scanned (TLS) data collected over sand and gravel surfaces during multiple days when saltation was active, on a surface approximately 8 m from the TLS, perpendicular to the wind direction. The data is raw point cloud format in text columns of x, y and z coordinate data. Files are named *_^_scan& where * is the date that the data was collected in yymmdd format, ^ is surface type (sand or gravel) and & is the scan number. Each data set uses the same coordinate system. Data can be viewed in any spatial software.

Wind and sediment data were collected from a fixed point on each surface, directly downwind of the TLS data. The data is in csv file format with column titles and can be viewed in any text or database software. Data include hot wire measurements at different heights, Wenglor counts, sensit counts and 3D sonic measurements on some days. Sonic data is at 10 Hz, hotwire data at 10 second intervals, transport data is given within both datasets.

Dataset content dates 13/09/2019 to 15/09/2019
Dataset spatial coverage Huab River Valley, Skeleton Coast National Park, Namibia.
Sand site approximately UTM 33K 342745 S, 7691736 E.
Gravel site approximately UTM 33K 342722 S, 7691817 E.
Dataset supply format Text File (csv) Point cloud (xyz)
Dataset language English-United Kingdom
Dataset discovery metadata record Discovery Link to the dataset's BGS Discovery Metadata record
Dataset publisher NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre
Dataset publication date 30/09/2022
Dataset digital object identifier(DOI) 10.5285/99e4446f-c43a-492d-83c9-e896206649c0
Dataset citation text Nield, J.M., Wiggs, G.F.S., Baddock, M.C., Delorme, P. (2022). Surface and Meteorological Data at Huab River Valley, Skeleton Coast National Park, Namibia in September 2019. NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/99e4446f-c43a-492d-83c9-e896206649c0
Constraints and terms of use This data set is available under Open Government Licence, subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying any reproduced materials: "Contains data supplied by permission of the Natural Environment Research Council [YEAR]".
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