Identification

Title

Rain chemistry and volume data from Climoor fieldsite in Clocaenog Forest

Abstract

[THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. This dataset includes rainfall data from a ground level rain gauge as well as from basic storage rain gauges within the experimental plots in the Climoor field site in the Clocaenog Forest. Data includes volume of rainfall at both site and plot level, and rainfall chemistry (site level) from 1999-2012. Determinands include: Sodium (Na), Potassium (K), Calcium (Ca), Magnesium (Mg), Aluminium (Al), PO4-P, Chlorine (Cl), Phosphorus (P), Nitogen (N), Ammonium Nitrogen (NH4-N), Nitrate Nitrogen (NO3-N), Sulphate (SO4), dissolved organic Carbon (DOC) and pH for 1999-2002; and NH4-N, NO3-N, SO4, DOC and pH for 2002-2012. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/7b0da62f-14fc-4636-abb0-4dd9a668a6eb

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

Unique resource identifier

code

1392896531252

codeSpace

CEH:EIDC:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Environmental Monitoring Facilities

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

biogeochemistry

water

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-3.479

East bounding longitude

-3.391

North bounding latitude

53.077

South bounding latitude

53.033

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1999-07-01

End position

2013-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2014-03-07

Frequency of update

unknown

Quality and validity

Lineage

Rainfall is also measured at the site using a ground level storage rain gauge (funnel diameter 12.7 cm). Rain collected in the gauge accumulated over a period of two weeks. Exception to this occurred over holiday periods, particularly Christmas, when samples accumulated over 3 or 4 weeks, as oppose to 2 - however the quantity of rainfall accumulated never exceeded the storage capacity of the gauge. Samples of rainfall intended for chemical analysis were collected using warren spring rainfall collectors emptied on a bi-weekly basis. Samples were transported in the bottle they were collected into from the field back to the lab, and were filtered through a 45 micrometre cellulose nitrate filter, and stored in the dark at 4 degrees C before analysis. pH was measured on a Metrohm 888 Titrando fitted with a 20ml burette and 815 Robotic USB Sample Processor XL (Metrohm, Switzerland). Nitrate (NO3), chloride (Cl), sulphate (SO4) was determined using Dionex DX100 chemically suppressed ion chromatograph using carbonate eluant and AS4a columns (Dionex Corporation, Sunnyvale California 94088-3603 USA). Sub-samples were acidified with 2M HCl and sparged with oxygen to remove any inorganic carbon in the sample before analysis. The remaining non-purgeable organic carbon (assumed to be DOC) was determined with a Shimadzu TOC-V CPH (Shimadzu Corporation, Kyoto, 604-8511, Japan). Ammonium was analysed colormetrically using a SEAL AQ2 discrete analyser. Bi-weekly measurements of rain volume (measured by the storage rain gauge) were pooled to give monthly totals for rainfall. Throughfall data is collected bi-weekly at the same time as the storage rain gauge data (above). A funnel (diameter 16.8 cm) and bottle (3000 ml capacity) captures the rainfall for each experimental plot and the volume of this is noted. A degree of calculation is needed with this data to make it comparable with other annual data from the site, such as annual rainfall. This is because samples can over-flow in these samplers during periods of high rainfall, sometimes freeze, bottles get blown over, funnels fall off or get cracked, etc. The throughfall data is used to calculate a % change figure for each treatment, and this % difference is applied to the ground level rain gauge data (site level rainfall) to give the number for rainfall in each treatment. Within the calculation of % difference in throughfall, when data is lost or the measurement is compromised (for example, the funnel falls off the bottle at some point in the week), then this plot is excluded from the treatment mean. This does mean that on occasion, the treatment mean is calculated with less than the full 3 replicates. Also occasionally data has been infilled using an average reduction over all years. In the dataset provided, there is the (unadjusted) monthly plot level throughfall data, along with the estimated rainfall mean for each treatment (which has undergone infilling - data is flagged where this has occurred).

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

explanation

Data format

name of format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Sowerby, A., Emmett, B.A. (2014). Rain chemistry and volume data from Climoor fieldsite in Clocaenog Forest. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/7b0da62f-14fc-4636-abb0-4dd9a668a6eb

owner

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

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2021-06-25T18:39:39

Metadata language

eng