Datasets used in 'Streambed hydraulic conductivity estimated by spectral induced polarization imaging can help to improve groundwater modeling'

These datasets pertain to the manuscript entitled 'Streambed hydraulic conductivity estimated by spectral induced polarization imaging can help to improve groundwater modeling', which is currently submitted for revision in Water Resources Research. They comprise raw data from measurements taken in the field at 2 sites in terms of (1) pressure time series during the performed slug tests, (2) impedance from spectral induced polarization, (3) submersion levels of the used electrodes below the top of the water column, and (4) three-dimensional Cartesian coordinates relating the measurements spatially. The coordinates have been projected to a local coordinate system for each site, to comply with a non-disclosure agreement of the measurement locations. The projection of the coordinates still allows to fully reproduce the presented results, if using the methods described in the manuscript. The naming convention throughout the datasets is consistent with site labels used in the manuscript. All data is given as comma-separated values with intuitive file names and self-explanatory headers containing a list of field names. The slug test data includes multiple repetitions of the same measurement, and the impedance measurements contain normal as well as reciprocal readings – as described in the manuscript.

The data is separated into two compressed file archives, named according to the site names given in the manuscript. Each file pertaining to slug tests at a certain location, in the subfolder “slugTestRecordings” has the following naming convention: “_.csv”, where corresponds to the local coordinates given in “coordinates.txt”, and where is an integer describing the largest depth in cm at which a slug test was performed according to the protocol described in the manuscript. Each file pertaining to impedance measurements at a certain profile, in the subfolder “SIPRecordings”, has the following naming convention: “_.dat”, where corresponds to the local coordinates given in “coordinates.txt”, and where is a zero-padded integer describing the measurement frequency in Hz at which the measurement was performed according to the protocol described in the manuscript. Submersion levels of the electrodes below the top of the stream’s water column are given in m in the file “submersionLevels.txt”, corresponding to the local coordinates given in “coordinates.txt”. The local coordinates given in m in “coordinates.txt” have the following convention for the column “locationTag”: “-, where pertains to a name of the electrical array and is a continuous number for the electrode. Slug tests were exclusively perfomed at the location of electrodes and files are, thus, as described above, named accordingly.