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THIS DATASET HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED The latest version is Weekly water quality data from the River Thames and its major tributaries, 2009-2023

An additional 4 years of data have been added to this dataset.

If you need access to the archived version, please contact the EIDC

Bowes, M.J.; Armstrong, L.K.; Wickham, H.D.; Harman, S.A.; Gozzard, E.; Roberts, C.; Scarlett, P.M.

Weekly water quality data from the River Thames and its major tributaries (2009-2013) [CEH Thames Initiative]

https://doi.org/10.5285/e4c300b1-8bc3-4df2-b23a-e72e67eef2fd

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THIS DATASET HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED The latest version is Weekly water quality data from the River Thames and its major tributaries, 2009-2023

An additional 4 years of data have been added to this dataset.

If you need access to the archived version, please contact the EIDC

This data set comprises of weekly water quality monitoring data of seven sites along the River Thames, UK, and fifteen of its major tributaries from February 2009 to February 2013. Parameters measured were phosphorus and nitrogen species, dissolved reactive silicon, water temperature, pH, Gran alkalinity, suspended solids, chlorophyll and major dissolved anions (fluoride, chloride, bromide, sulphate) and cations (sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, boron). Dissolved and total iron, manganese, zinc, copper concentrations have also been produced from August 2010 to February 2013. The accompanying daily river flow data are also supplied.

Samples were taken as part of the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology's Thames Initiative monitoring programme.

Publication date: 2017-02-13

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Format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

Spatial information

Study area

Spatial representation type

Tabular (text)

Spatial reference system

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

Temporal information

Temporal extent

2009-03-02 to 2013-02-25

Provenance & quality

All water samples were collected by fieldworkers from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH), Wallingford. All chemical analysis was carried out by the Nutrient Chemistry Laboratories at CEH Wallingford. Daily mean flow data that accompany the data set were produced by the Environment Agency, and downloaded from the National River Flow Archive in January 2017.

Interpretation of this data set can be found in the following papers:

[1] Bowes MJ, Gozzard E, Johnson AC, Scarlett PM, Roberts C, Read DS, et al. Spatial and temporal changes in chlorophyll-a concentrations in the River Thames basin, UK: Are phosphorus concentrations beginning to limit phytoplankton biomass? Sci Total Environ (2012) 426: 45-55.
[2] Bowes MJ, Jarvie HP, Naden PS, Old GH, Scarlett PM, Roberts C, et al. Identifying priorities for nutrient mitigation using river concentration-flow relationships: The Thames basin, UK. J of Hydrol (2014) 517: 1-12.
[3] Bowes MJ, Loewenthal M, Read DS, Hutchins MG, Prudhomme C, Armstrong LK, et al. Identifying multiple stressor controls on phytoplankton dynamics in the River Thames (UK) using high-frequency water quality data. Sci Total Environ (2016) 569-570: 1489-1499.

Licensing and constraints

THIS DATASET HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED The latest version is Weekly water quality data from the River Thames and its major tributaries, 2009-2023

An additional 4 years of data have been added to this dataset.

If you need access to the archived version, please contact the EIDC

This dataset is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

Cite this dataset as:

Bowes, M.J.; Armstrong, L.K.; Wickham, H.D.; Harman, S.A.; Gozzard, E.; Roberts, C.; Scarlett, P.M. (2017). Weekly water quality data from the River Thames and its major tributaries (2009-2013) [CEH Thames Initiative]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/e4c300b1-8bc3-4df2-b23a-e72e67eef2fd

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You must include the following attribution "The supplied daily mean flow was supplied by the National River Flow Archive on the 10th January 2017."

Citations

Bowes, M. J., Armstrong, L. K., Harman, S. A., Wickham, H. D., Nicholls, D. J. E., Scarlett, P. M., … Read, D. S. (2018). Weekly water quality monitoring data for the River Thames (UK) and its major tributaries (2009–2013): the Thames Initiative research platform. Earth System Science Data, 10(3), 1637-1653 https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1637-2018

Hutchins, M. G., Abesser, C., Prudhomme, C., Elliott, J. A., Bloomfield, J. P., Mansour, M. M., & Hitt, O. E. (2018). Combined impacts of future land-use and climate stressors on water resources and quality in groundwater and surface waterbodies of the upper Thames river basin, UK. Science of The Total Environment, 631–632, 962–986. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.03.052

Correspondence/contact details

Bowes, M.

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford,
Wallingford
Oxfordshire
OX10 0LR
UK

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