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Hydrological projections for the UK, based on UK Climate Projections 2018 (UKCP18) data, from the Enhanced Future Flows and Groundwater (eFLaG) project

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
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Summary

Enhanced Future Flows and Groundwater (eFLaG) is an 12-member ensemble projection of river flow, groundwater level, and groundwater recharge time series for 200 catchments, 54 boreholes and 558 groundwater bodies in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It is derived from the UKCP18 dataset, specifically the 'Regional' 12km projections, to which a bias correction is applied. River flows, groundwater level and groundwater recharge data are at a daily time step. To be consistent with the driving meteorological dataset, eFLaG data use a simplified 360-day year, consisting of twelve 30-day months. eFLaG data span from 1981 to 2080. The development of eFLaG was made during the partnership project funded by the Met Office-led component of the Strategic Priorities Fund Climate Resilience programme under contract P107493 (CR19_4 UK Climate Resilience). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/1bb90673-ad37-4679-90b9-0126109639a9

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eFLaG workflow diagram PNG 30/7/2026
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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
24 July 2026
Harvest GUID
1bb90673-ad37-4679-90b9-0126109639a9
Extent (Latitude)
60.861° to 49.864°
Extent (Longitude)
-8.648° to 1.768°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2022-01-26
Access constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Hannaford, J., Mackay, J., Ascott, M., Bell, V., Chitson, T., Cole, S., Counsell, C., Durant, M., Facer-Childs, K., Jackson, C., Kay, A., Lane, R., Mansour, M., Moore, R.J., Parry, S., Rudd, A., Simpson, M., Turner, S., Wallbank, J., Wells, S., Wilcox, A. (2022). Hydrological projections for the UK, based on UK Climate Projections 2018 (UKCP18) data, from the Enhanced Future Flows and Groundwater (eFLaG) project. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/1bb90673-ad37-4679-90b9-0126109639a9
Responsible party
(author, pointOfContact, publisher, owner, custodian); HR Wallingford (author)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng