Automatic measurements of water levels in creeks converted into flow.

Rainfall measurements collected since 2003 by a network of daily reading raingauges deployed in the Hombori super site.

Herbaceous vegetation aboveground mass are recorded in field sites, 1x1km in size. Vegetation variables are measured in 12 plots (1x1m) sampled under a random stratified method in each of the vegetation facies within site. These measures are done once a year at peak mass. In 2015, estimated masses should probably be corrected by about 15-20% due to late measurements.

Piezometric surveys in domestic wells in villages or dedicated to pastoral use, where manual measurements are made with commercial luminous probe (OTT, 100 m in length) every month for seasonal and long term mesoscale groundwater balance surveys. The water table level values are expressed from the edge of the well. A value = 9999 stands for a dry well.

Limnimetric surveys in seasonal, natural ponds with manual (visual) measurements coupled with data loggers. The manual measurements are made on metric scale bars with a frequency of twice a month during the rainy season to once a month during the dry season. As the scale bars are not always matched to zero, water level values from these gauges need to be readjusted taking into account the lowest value read on the scale bars (please consult the specific metadata of each station (list of properties)).

Rainfall measurements collected over a network of daily reading raingauges, installed on a square of 10 km X 10 km (6 East-West lines of 10 km each, separated by 2 km from each other) located at the center of the Diantandou kori basin. The network is installed through a catena from the bottom of Dantiandou kori valley (Banizoumbou) to the Bani Kossey depression (10 km). The network is visited each day to record previous rainfall.

Rainfall measurements collected over a network of daily reading raingauges located in the Tondikiboro and Mele Haoussa intensive local sites.

Local observers record water level and take photographs of the scale every 10 days during the wet season and about once a month during the dry season. For turbidity, water sample are collected by local observer, every 10 days during the wet season and about once a month during the dry season, and sent by bus to Bamako for analyzing turbidity using a turbidimeter. A value of turbidity of 1001 stands for a value exceeding the sensor sensitivity.

Map of the state of the soil use (SU). On each unit of SU, the Leaf Area Index (LAI) of the woody stand, and of the herbaceous strata in fallows and on millet in crop fields, biomass of grasses in fallows and of millet in crop fields, leaf area of millet, height of grasses in fallows and of millet in crop fields, and millet yield are measured each year.

Rainfall measurements collected between 1990-2004 (EPSAT project) by up to ~100 recording raingauges to complement and densify the meso site network (CL.Rain_N). NB: Negative values are missing values. Negative value other than -9999.9 is missing value estimated from the bucket. For a period with such missing data, although the same value is indicated for each timestep, the value applies to the whole time period.