Identification

Title

Hydrological Open Data

Alternative title(s)

Abstract

Hydrological data is available from around 7,000 stations across England. This includes river flow, river level, groundwater and rainfall. Data consists of high resolution data (mainly 15 min) as well as daily data. All the data is EA owned and available as open data. The data comes from both our internal archive (WISKI) as well as real-time updates from telemetry: River flow (m3s-1): A) real time: updates from telemetry for stations in Wessex and Devon and Cornwall. B) daily: updates of daily mean values from WISKI C) monthly: updates of 15 min data, day max and day min from WISKI River level (m): A) real time: updates from telemetry. B) monthly: updates of 15 min data, day max and day min from WISKI Rainfall (mm): A) real time: updates from telemetry. B) daily: updates of daily totals values from WISKI C) monthly: updates of 15 min data from WISKI Groundwater (mAOD): A) real time: updates from telemetry for some stations B) weekly: updates of dipped data from WISKI C) monthly: updates of high-resolution data from WISKI Note that data is recorded in GMT and therefore during British Summer Time (BST) data may appear to be an hour old. Data comes from a network of stations across England and is subject to quality control procedures. As a result values on this website are subject to change after publication. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://environment.data.gov.uk/hydrology

protocol: http

name: Hydrology open data user interface

description: Hydrometric data for England

Unique resource identifier

code

57ebd6a8-08d0-46c6-9253-547c27854df6

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Rainfall

River flow

River level

environment

Keyword set

keyword value

hydrology

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

groundwater

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-6.236

East bounding longitude

2.072

North bounding latitude

55.816

South bounding latitude

49.943

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1958-01-01

End position

2023-03-28

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2023-02-20

Frequency of update

daily

Quality and validity

Lineage

Data is collected from Environment Agency owned infrastructure and quality checked by Environment Agency hydrometry and telemetry teams. There are several ways to collect river flow data, more information can be found here https://nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/hydrometry-uk.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Open format | Comma Separated Values file (CSV)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Open Government Licence

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Constraint set

Use constraints

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Environment Agency

email address

DSPcustomerforum@environment-agency.gov.uk

web address

https://environment.data.gov.uk/support

description: Defra Data Services Forum

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environment Agency

email address

DSPcustomerforum@environment-agency.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2024-01-02

Metadata language