Bell, V.A.; Rudd, A.C.; Kay, A.L.; Davies, H.N.

Grid-to-Grid model estimates of monthly mean flow and soil moisture for Great Britain: weather@home2 (climate model) driving data [MaRIUS-G2G-WAH2-monthly]

https://doi.org/10.5285/3b90962e-6fc8-4251-853e-b9683e37f790 Cite this dataset

This dataset is a model output, from the Grid-to-Grid hydrological model driven by weather@home2 climate model data. It provides a 100-member ensemble of monthly mean flow (m3/s) and soil moisture (mm water/m soil) on a 1 km grid for the following time periods: historical baseline (HISTBS: 1900-2006), near-future (NF: 2020-2049) and far-future (FF: 2070-2099). It also includes a baseline period (BS: 1975-2004).

To aid interpretation, two additional spatial datasets are provided:
- Digitally-derived catchment areas on a 1km x 1km grid
- Estimated locations of flow gauging stations on a 1km x 1km grid and as a csv file.

The data were produced as part of MaRIUS (Managing the Risks, Impacts and Uncertainties of drought and water Scarcity), which was a UK NERC-funded research project (2014-2017) that developed a risk-based approach to drought and water scarcity.

Publication date: 2018-03-12

Where/When

Study area
Temporal extent: 1900-01-01 to 2099-12-30

Supplemental information

This dataset is referenced in:

Bell, V. A., Kay, A. L., Rudd, A. C., & Davies, H. N. (2018). The MaRIUS-G2G datasets: Grid-to-Grid model estimates of flow and soil moisture for Great Britain using observed and climate model driving data. Geoscience Data Journal, 5(2), 63–72.

https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.55

Other useful information regarding this dataset:

Marius drought project website

Grid-to-Grid paper

Bell, V. A., Kay, A. L., Jones, R. G., Moore, R. J., & Reynard, N. S. (2009). Use of soil data in a grid-based hydrological model to estimate spatial variation in changing flood risk across the UK. Journal of Hydrology, 377(3–4), 335–350.

weather@home2 climate model data

Guillod, B.P.; Jones, R.G.; Kay, A.L.; Massey, N.R.; Sparrow, S.; Wallom, D.C.H.; Wilson, S.S. (2017): Managing the Risks, Impacts and Uncertainties of drought and water Scarcity (MaRIUS) project: Large set of potential past and future climate time series for the UK from the weather@home2 model . Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 2018. doi:10.5285/0cea8d7aca57427fae92241348ae9b03.

Provenance & quality

The flow and soil moisture estimates are output from the Grid-to-Grid hydrological model (Bell et al. 2009; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.08.031). The meteorological inputs to the model were the weather@home2 bias-corrected precipitation and potential evaporation (Guillod et al. 2018; https://doi.org/10.5285/0cea8d7aca57427fae92241348ae9b03). See Supporting Information for more details.