River Chess Association river flow spot gaugings, 2023-2026

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This dataset contains spot flow gauging data gathered by the River Chess Association between 2024-2026 using hand-held Acoustic Doppler and impeller flow meters. Several sites along the River Chess are monitored monthly by recording the depth and velocity of flow.

Format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type
Tabular (text)
Spatial reference systems
WGS 84
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Spatial resolution
1 metres

Temporal information

Temporal extent
2023-01-01    to    2026-12-31

Provenance & quality

Data from manual flow gauging conducted by the River Chess Association. Transects are accepted or rejected by the surveying team with no further quality control applied once the data has been recieved.

Supplemental information

The River Chess Association
The website for The River Chess Association

Correspondence/contact details

FDRI
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford
Wallingford
Oxfordshire
OX10 8BB
UNITED KINGDOM
 enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Author

River Chess Association

Additional metadata

Topic categories
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
environment
inlandWaters
INSPIRE theme
Hydrography
Keywords
Catchment scale , Chess , drought , England, flood , Floods and Droughts Digital Research Infrastructure (FDRI) , Flow station, Hydrology , Impeller, Sontek FlowTracker2