The Namib Sand Sea digital database of aeolian dunes and key forcing variables

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Bryant, Robert;Bryant, Robert

Description

This is a repository for data from the following source paper (which was formerly hosted on our central web site):
Livingstone, I., Bristow, C., Bryant, R.G., Bullard, J., White, K., Wiggs, G.F., Baas, A.C., Bateman, M.D. and Thomas, D.S., 2010. The Namib Sand Sea digital database of aeolian dunes and key forcing variables. Aeolian Research, 2(2-3), pp.93-104.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeolia.2010.08.001
In the zip file are the following resources, as well as a copy of the above paper:
All data files can be easily interrogated in QGIS, ArcGIS or ArcPro
1. Digital elevation models 1.1 SRTM DEM [.img] 1.2 ASTER GDEM [.img] 1.3 Individual ASTER DEM tiles 2. Remote sensing imagery 2.1 Landsat 5 TM mosaic [*.img] 2.2 Individual ASTER image tiles 3. Vegetation index data 3.1 PAL NDVI data 3.2 GIMMS NDVI data 4. Quaternary dune age database 5. Map of dune types 6. Ancillary map data 6.1 Administrative boundaries 6.2 Drainage basin catchments 6.3 Mean annual rainfall 6.4 Potential annual average evaporation 6.5 Average daily maximum temperature for the hottest month 6.6 Average daily minimum temperature for the coldest month 6.7 Annual average number of days with rain 6.8 Rainfall for October–March as a percentage of the annual average 6.9 Average deviation of rainfall as percentage of the annual average 7. Wind data 7.1 ERA-40 data 8. Bibliographic database

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Metrics

Dataset Index

0.7

FAIR Score

88%

Citations

0

Mentions

0

Metrics Over Time

Publication Details

DOI

Publisher

The University of Sheffield

License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Assigned Domain

Subfield

Artificial Intelligence

Field

Computer Science

Domain

Physical Sciences

Confidence Score

49%

Source

Scholar Data Model

Keywords

Earth and space science informaticsGeoscience data visualisationQuaternary environmentsRegolith and landscape evolutionGeomorphology and earth surface processesGeochronologySedimentologyPhotogrammetry and remote sensing

Normalization Factors

FT

43.27

CTw

1.00

MTw

1.00