Grid-to-Grid model estimates of monthly mean flow and soil moisture for Great Britain (1891 to 2015): observed driving data [MaRIUS-G2G-Oudin-monthly]
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https://doi.org/10.5285/f52f012d-9f2e-42cc-b628-9cdea4fa3ba0

This dataset is a model output, from the Grid-to-Grid hydrological model driven by observed climate data (CEH-GEAR rainfall and Oudin temperature-based potential evaporation). It provides monthly mean flow (m3/s) and soil moisture (mm water/m soil) on a 1 km grid for the period 1891 to 2015.

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 (http://www.mariusdroughtproject.org/).

Publication date: 2018-03-09

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Format

NetCDF

Spatial information

Study area

Spatial representation type

Raster

Spatial reference systems

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
WGS 84

Temporal information

Temporal extent

1891-01-01 to 2015-12-30

Provenance & quality

The flow and soil moisture estimates are output from the Grid-to-Grid hydrological model (Bell et al. 2009; https://doi.org10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.08.031). The meteorological inputs to the model were rainfall from CEH-GEAR (Tanguy et al. 2016; https://doi.org10.5285/33604ea0-c238-4488-813d-0ad9ab7c51ca) and potential evaporation derived from 5km temperature data (Perry and Hollis, 2005, https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.1161) using the method of Oudin et al. (2005; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2004.08.026). See Supporting Information for more details.

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Bell, V.A.; Rudd, A.C.; Kay, A.L.; Davies, H.N. (2018). Grid-to-Grid model estimates of monthly mean flow and soil moisture for Great Britain (1891 to 2015): observed driving data [MaRIUS-G2G-Oudin-monthly]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/f52f012d-9f2e-42cc-b628-9cdea4fa3ba0

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Citations

Rudd, A. C., Bell, V. A., & Kay, A. L. (2017). National-scale analysis of simulated hydrological droughts (1891–2015). Journal of Hydrology, 550, 368–385. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.05.018

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

Hooftman, D.A.P., Bullock, J.M., Jones, L., Eigenbrod, F., Barredo, J.I., Forrest, M., Kindermann, G., Thomas, A., & Willcock, S. (2022). Reducing uncertainty in ecosystem service modelling through weighted ensembles. Ecosystem Services, 53, 101398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101398

Goodwin, C.E.D., Bütikofer, L., Hatfield, J.H., Evans, P.M., Bullock, J.M., Storkey, J., Mead, A., Richter, G.M., Henrys, P.A., Pywell, R.F., & Redhead, J.W. (2022). Multi-tier archetypes to characterise British landscapes, farmland and farming practices. Environmental Research Letters, 17(9), 095002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac810e

Supplemental information

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.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.08.031

Marius project website