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Dataset

 

Estimated monthly water levels across a subset region of the Congo Basin peatlands (2019–2020)

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Abstract

These data include estimates of the monthly water levels across a subset region of the Congo Basin peatland complex for the period March 2019 to October 2020.

Filenames beginning with 'WL_monthly' contain the monthly minimum, maximum, mean, and standard deviation of the estimated daily water levels for a subset of the Cuvette Centrale region in the Central Congo Basin.

Filenames beginning with just 'WL_' contain the minimum, maximum, mean, and standard deviation of the estimated daily water levels over the 20-month study period, March 2019 to October 2020.

Details of the method used to produce these data are included in the article: Georgiou, S.; Mitchard, E.T.A.; Crezee, B.; Dargie, G.C.; Young, D.M.; Jovani-Sancho, A.J.; Kitambo, B.; Papa, F.; Bocko, Y.E.; Bola, P.; et al. Mapping Water Levels across a Region of the Cuvette Centrale Peatland Complex. Remote Sens. 2023, 15, 3099. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15123099.

These data were produced for the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) project CongoPeat: Past, Present and Future of the Peatlands of the Central Congo Basin (grant reference: NE/R016860/1).

Citable as:  [ PROVISIONAL ] University of Edinburgh; University of Leeds; Georgiou, S.; Mitchard, E.T.A.; Crezee, B.; Dargie, G.C.; Young, D.M.; Jovani-Sancho, A.J.; Kitambo, B.; Papa, F.; Bocko, Y.E.; Bola, P.; Emba, O.B.; Ewango, C.E.N.; Girkin, N.T.; Ifo, S.A.; Kanyama, J.T.; Mampouya, Y.E.W.; Mbemba, M.; Ndjango, J.-B.N.; Palmer, P.I.; Sjögersten, S. (9999): Estimated monthly water levels across a subset region of the Congo Basin peatlands (2019–2020). NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/74186901e2fa445cafca72141f3630f1

Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: Congo, peatland, wetland, inundation, CongoPeat

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Details of the method used to produce these data are included in the article: Georgiou, S.; Mitchard, E.T.A.; Crezee, B.; Dargie, G.C.; Young, D.M.; Jovani-Sancho, A.J.; Kitambo, B.; Papa, F.; Bocko, Y.E.; Bola, P.; et al. Mapping Water Levels across a Region of the Cuvette Centrale Peatland Complex. Remote Sens. 2023, 15, 3099. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15123099.

Code available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20534201.

Data Quality:
These are estimates and are subject to uncertainty in the SAR data used and the altimetry data that the temporal inundation patterns were validated against.
File Format:
NetCDF

Citations: 1

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Georgiou, S.; Mitchard, E.T.A.; Crezee, B.; Dargie, G.C.; Young, D.M.; Jovani-Sancho, A.J.; Kitambo, B.; Papa, F.; Bocko, Y.E.; Bola, P.; et al. Mapping Water Levels across a Region of the Cuvette Centrale Peatland Complex. Remote Sens. 2023, 15, 3099. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15123099. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15123099

Process overview

This dataset was generated by instruments deployed on platforms as listed below.

Independent Instruments

PALSAR-2
Output Description

None

  • var_id: band
  • var_id: lat
  • var_id: lon
  • var_id: time
  • units: days
  • var_id: water_level

Co-ordinate Variables