Data sources

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Databases

  • SAEON Data Portal

(search data portal for several datasets from research and monitoring sites):

https://catalogue.saeon.ac.za/
  • University of Pretoria Modelling Observatory:

(official link to be added)

Climate

  • South Africa Department of Water & Sanitation

DWS meteorological stations (search meteorological stations by drainage regions / primary catchment): https://www.dws.gov.za/Hydrology/Verified/hymain.aspx

  • South African Weather Service

rainfall, temperature, wind speed, wind direction, relative humidity and solar radiation (search for stations located in South Africa, only students can access data for free): https://www.weathersa.co.za/home/equiries_climatedata

  • CHIRPS satellite rainfall estimates

gridded-rainfall estimates based on absolute location (search for rainfall by latitude and longitude) 'website: https://www.chc.ucsb.edu/data/chirps database: https://data.chc.ucsb.edu/products/CHIRPS-2.0/

Streamflow

Reservoir data

Groundwater levels

Topography

Geological maps

Land cover maps

  • National landcover

2020 South African National Landcover Data and the CALC system (https://egis.environment.gov.za/sa_national_land_cover_datasets) 2014 South African National Land-Cover (http://bgis.sanbi.org/Projects/Detail/44)

  • Western Cape

Provincial: 2013/2014 Western Cape Landcover product (http://bgis.sanbi.org/SpatialDataset/Detail/610) Dataset: Rebelo, A., and Holden, P. 2020. Mapping land-use/land-cover in strategic water source areas in the Upper Berg and Breede Catchments (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g-put7oky4z_poGk9ySlZeHDVZXyyyJx/view) Dataset: Holden, P., and Rebelo A. 2019. Mapping Invasive Alien Trees in strategic water source areas in the Berg and Breede Catchments (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dM7dAnYCUsB3ia8yJT5Ph2iO374_azqI/view)

  • KwaZulu-Natal

Dataset: Rebelo, A.J., S. Gokool, and P. B. Holden 2021. Mapping Invasive Alien Trees and Shrubs in strategic water source areas in the uMngeni Catchment (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NerUPUdprYvXFcCZKwo1y6FdPBdiHIml/view)