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Pontbren Llyn Hir study site soil water tension data

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This dataset is from an array of tensiometers measuring soil water tension installed at the Llyn Hir monitoring site within the Pontbren study site in mid Wales, UK. Three tensiometers were installed at 10 cm, 30 cm, and 50 cm depth and sampled every 10 minutes between September 2008 to December 2009 as part of the Pontbren Catchment Study Land Use and Management Multi-Scale Experimental Programme. The Llyn Hir site is an area of unimproved grassland adjacent to the Llyn Hir rain gauge and Llyn Hir outflow stream gauging site (Site 8). Soil water tension data (cm H2O) are provided in the form of .txt files and generally split into 6 month blocks. Associated with each data point in the .txt file is a quality assurance code, QA code, in the adjacent column. Details of the dataset and the quality assurance coding system are provided in the supporting documentation.

Datasets from the rain gauges and stream monitoring system at the Llyn Hir site are also provided by the EIDC.
Publication date: 2012-04-02
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Format

Tab delimited text

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type
Tabular (text)
Spatial reference system
WGS 84

Temporal information

Temporal extent
2005-04-04    to    2010-12-31

Provenance & quality

Digital data subject to manual validation procedures during capture and transfer to the main geo database and through subsequent statistical analysis and modelling. Full details provided in the 'Pontbren Catchment Study Data catalogue'.

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Supplemental information

Wheater, H., Reynolds, B., McIntyre, N., Marshall, M., Jackson, B., Frogbrook, Z., Solloway, I., Francis, O. and Chell, J. 2008. Impacts of upland management on flood risk: multi-scale modelling on methodology and results from the Pontbren Experiment. FRMRC Research Report UR 16. December 2008.
Marshall, M.R., Francis, O.J., Frogbrook, Z.L., Jackson, B.M., McIntyre, N., Reynolds, B., Solloway, I., Wheater, H.S. and Chell, J. 2009. The impact of upland land management on flooding: results from an improved pasture hillslope. Hydrological Processes, 23, 464-475.

Correspondence/contact details

Marshall, M
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
 enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Other contacts

Custodian
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk
Publisher
NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk

Additional metadata

Topic categories
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
elevation
environment
farming
inlandWaters
INSPIRE theme
Environmental Monitoring Facilities
Keywords
CEH Project CO2699 , CEH Water Programme , Flooding , Flood risk management , Hydrology , Pontbren , Soil , United Kingdom , Wales , Water
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08 February 2024 17:33