Long term groundwater datasets

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The Chronicles Consortium

The Chronicles Consortium is an international consortium of scientists from across Africa and beyond, who are collating and analysing multidecadal records of groundwater levels. These datasets represent long-term aquifer dynamics, and are vital in order to assess the impacts of groundwater use, climate variability and change, and land use change on groundwater storage across Africa. The Consortium was established at the 41st Congress of the IAH (International Association of Hydrogeologists) in Marrakech, Morocco on 14 September 2014 and led by Tamiru Abiye (Wits University, South Africa), Guillaume Favreau (IRD, France), and Richard Taylor (University College London, UK).

The project Collation and analysis of multidecadal groundwater levels – observations in Africa was a joint initiative of the African Groundwater Network (AGW-Net), IAH Commission on Groundwater and Climate Change, and the UNESCO-IHP GRAPHIC programme, and was supported by the UPGro (Unlocking the Potential of Groundwater for the Poor) programme of the UK government (DFID, NERC, ESRC) and the LMI-PICASSEAU programme of the French government (IRD). The Consortium worked with national experts in nine countries in sub-Saharan Africa, to uncover and assemble multi-decadal records of groundwater levels. The collated data were subject to rigorous analysis and were reported on in Cuthbert et al. (2019).

The collated Chronicles long term groundwater data can be downloaded from IGRAC.

More information can be seen at the Chronicles Consortium site.

If you have or know of any more long term groundwater data in Africa, please contact the Consortium on chronicles@un-igrac.org


References

Cuthbert MO, Taylor RG et al. 2019. Observed controls on resilience of groundwater to climate variability in sub-Saharan Africa. Nature 572, 230–234.


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