Identification

Title

Catchment attributes and hydro-meteorological timeseries for 671 catchments across Great Britain (CAMELS-GB)

Abstract

This dataset provides hydro-meteorological timeseries and landscape attributes for 671 catchments across Great Britain. It collates river flows, catchment attributes and catchment boundaries from the UK National River Flow Archive together with a suite of new meteorological timeseries and catchment attributes. Daily timeseries for the time period 1st October 1970 to the 30th September 2015 are provided for a range of hydro-meteorological data (including rainfall, potential evapotranspiration, temperature, radiation, humidity and flow). A comprehensive set of catchment attributes are quantified describing a range of catchment characteristics including topography, climate, hydrology, land cover, soils, hydrogeology, human influences and discharge uncertainty. This dataset is intended for the community as a freely available, easily accessible dataset to use in a wide range of environmental data and modelling analyses. A research paper (Coxon et al, CAMELS-GB: Hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes for 671 catchments in Great Britain) describing the dataset in detail will be made available in Earth System Science Data (https://www.earth-system-science-data.net/). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/8344e4f3-d2ea-44f5-8afa-86d2987543a9

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/8344e4f3-d2ea-44f5-8afa-86d2987543a9

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description: Download a copy of this data

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https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/8344e4f3-d2ea-44f5-8afa-86d2987543a9.zip

name: Supporting information

description: Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/8344e4f3-d2ea-44f5-8afa-86d2987543a9

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

inlandWaters

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Hydrography

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

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keyword value

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.648

East bounding longitude

1.768

North bounding latitude

60.861

South bounding latitude

49.864

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1970-10-01

End position

2015-09-30

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2020-02-20

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

CAMELS-GB provides hydro-meteorological timeseries and catchment attributes for 671 catchments. Catchment meteorological timeseries are derived from CEH-GEAR, CHESS-PE and CHESS-MET. Catchment flow timeseries and boundaries are sourced from the UK National River Flow Archive. Many of the catchment attributes are sourced either from the National River Flow Archive or from the catchment meteorological timeseries produced in CAMELS-GB. Land cover catchment attributes are derived from the GB 1km percentage target class, Land Cover Map 2015 (Rowland et al, 2017; https://doi.org/10.5285/ee9ab43d-a4fe-4e73-afd5-cd4fc4c82556). Soil catchment attributes are derived from the European Soil Database Derived Data product (Hiederer, 2013a, 2013b), and the modelled depth to bedrock global product (Pelletier et al., 2016). Hydrogeology catchment attributes are derived from the British Geological Survey hydrogeology map (BGS, 2019) and superficial deposits map. Discharge uncertainty estimates for each catchment are derived using the method described in Coxon et al (2015). Human influence catchment attributes were derived from datasets describing ground/surface water abstractions and discharges sourced from the Environment Agency and from datasets describing reservoir capacity and use from the UK reservoir inventory (Durant and Counsell, 2018). Where possible we have provided quantitative estimates of uncertainty, including timeseries for two potential evapo-transpiration products, percentiles of soil catchment attributes and the first set of national discharge uncertainty estimates. For all datasets we have highlighted the key uncertainties and limitations of the underlying source data products and any methods used to derive the catchment attributes. We hope to raise awareness and encourage users of the dataset to consider these uncertainties in their analyses. See supporting information for more details.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

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explanation

Data format

name of format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

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Limitations on public access

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Limitations on public access

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Limitations on public access

© UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

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Limitations on public access

© University of Bristol

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Limitations on public access

Contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency and/or database right

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Limitations on public access

Derived from UK bedrock hydrogeological mapping and UK superficial productivity mapping, BGS © UKRI

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Coxon, G., Addor, N., Bloomfield, J.P., Freer, J., Fry, M., Hannaford, J., Howden, N.J.K., Lane, R., Lewis, M., Robinson, E.L., Wagener, T., Woods, R. (2020). Catchment attributes and hydro-meteorological timeseries for 671 catchments across Great Britain (CAMELS-GB). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/8344e4f3-d2ea-44f5-8afa-86d2987543a9

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

University of Bristol

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

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organisation name

University of Bristol

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

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organisation name

University of Exeter

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

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organisation name

British Geological Survey

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

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author

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organisation name

University of Bristol

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

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organisation name

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

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organisation name

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

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author

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organisation name

University of Bristol

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

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organisation name

University of Bristol

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

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organisation name

British Geological Survey

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

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organisation name

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

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organisation name

University of Bristol

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

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organisation name

University of Bristol

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

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organisation name

NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

custodian

Responsible party

organisation name

NERC Environmental Information Data Centre

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

publisher

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environmental Information Data Centre

full postal address

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg

Lancaster

LA1 4AP

UK

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2023-04-27T14:34:21

Metadata language