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Daily rainfall, stream discharge and hydraulic conductivity of soils from catchments dominated by different vegetation types, Western Ghats, India, 2014-2016

Abstract

Data are presented for daily rainfall, stream discharge and hydraulic conductivity of soils from catchments located in the Upper Nilgiris Reserve Forest in the state of Tamil Nadu. The catchments are dominated by four land cover types, shola, grassland, pine and wattle. The data were collected between May 2014 and December 2016. Tipping bucket wired rain gauges were used to measure rainfall. Stream discharge was measured from stilling wells and capacitance probe-based water level recorders. A mini-disk infiltrometer was used to measure the hydraulic conductivity of soils. Dry season data has not been included in this dataset as its focus is on extreme rain events. The data were collected as part of a series of eco-hydrology projects that explored the impact of land cover on rain-runoff response, carbon sequestration and nutrient and sediment discharge. The dataset presented here was collected by a team of three to five researchers and field assistants who were engaged in the installation of the data loggers and their regular operation and maintenance. Four research agencies have partnered across multiple projects to sustain the data collection efforts that started in June 2013 and continue (June 2020). These are the Foundation for Ecological Research, Advocacy and Learning - Pondicherry, the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment - Bangalore, the Lancaster Environmental Centre, Lancaster University - UK, and the National Centre for Biological Sciences - Bangalore. Funding was provided by Ministry of Earth Sciences Government of India from the Changing Water Cycle programme (Grant Ref: MoES/NERC/16/02/10 PC-II) and the Hydrologic footprint of Invasive Alien Species project (MOES/PAMC/H&C/85/2016-PC-II). Additional funding was provided by UKRI Natural Environment Research Council grant NE/I022450/1 (Western Ghats-Capacity within the NERC Changing Water Cycle programme) and WWF-India as part of the Noyyal-Bhavani program.This research took place inside protected areas in the Nilgiri Division for which permissions and support were provided continually by the Tamil Nadu Forest Department, particularly the office of the District Forest Officer, Udhagamandalam. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/9257a999-2844-4be1-80d1-fd29e2ccf9ef

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/9257a999-2844-4be1-80d1-fd29e2ccf9ef

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https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/9257a999-2844-4be1-80d1-fd29e2ccf9ef.zip

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

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/9257a999-2844-4be1-80d1-fd29e2ccf9ef

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doi:

Dataset language

eng

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code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Southern Western Ghats

Upper Nilgiris

India

Tipping bucket wired rain gauge

stilling wells

capacitance probe

mini-disk infiltrometer

Daily rainfall

Daily discharge

hydraulic conductivity

Impacts of land cover

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

76.552

East bounding longitude

76.585

North bounding latitude

11.31

South bounding latitude

11.274

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2014-05-01

End position

2016-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2020-06-24

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Tipping bucket wired rain gauges were used to measure rainfall. Stream discharge was measured from stilling wells and capacitance probe based water level recorders. A mini-disk infiltrometer was used to measure the hydraulic conductivity of soils. Data from loggers on the rain gauges and water level recorder were downloaded fortnightly onto field laptops. Field notes were maintained for the hydraulic conductivity data and for recording metadata during field visits. Data was processed in the field station using R scripts which included routines to plot and visualise data to assure quality. Rainfall and discharge data were aggregated to daily time steps and output as a .csv file for deposit into the EIDC.

Conformity

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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

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publication

effective date

2010-12-08

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explanation

Data format

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Comma-separated values (CSV)

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© Foundation for Ecological Research, Advocacy and learning

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© Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment

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© Lancaster Environment Centre – Lancaster University

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© National Centre for Biological Sciences

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© Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India

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© Natural Environmental Research Council, UK

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© WWF-India

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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Bhalla, R.S., Krishnsawamy, J., Chappell, N.A., Kumaran, K., Vaidyanathan, S., Nayak, R., Ghatwai, P. (2020). Daily rainfall, stream discharge and hydraulic conductivity of soils from catchments dominated by different vegetation types, Western Ghats, India, 2014-2016. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/9257a999-2844-4be1-80d1-fd29e2ccf9ef

Responsible organisations

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organisation name

Foundation for Ecological Research, Advocacy and Learning

email address

bhalla@feralindia.org

responsible party role

pointOfContact

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organisation name

Foundation for Ecological Research, Advocacy and Learning

email address

bhalla@feralindia.org

responsible party role

author

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organisation name

Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment

email address

jagdish@atree.org

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author

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organisation name

Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University

email address

n.chappell@lancaster.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

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organisation name

Foundation for Ecological Research, Advocacy and Learning

email address

kumaran.k.b@gmail.com

responsible party role

author

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organisation name

Foundation for Ecological Research, Advocacy and Learning

email address

srinivasv@feralindia.org

responsible party role

author

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organisation name

Foundation for Ecological Research, Advocacy and Learning

email address

rajat@feralindia.org

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author

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organisation name

Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment

email address

prachi.108@gmail.com

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author

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organisation name

NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

custodian

Responsible party

organisation name

NERC Environmental Information Data Centre

email address

info@eidc.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

2022-05-18T12:37:40

Metadata language

eng