Grid-to-Grid model estimates of river flow for Northern Ireland driven by observed data (1980 to 2011)

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https://doi.org/10.5285/f5fc1041-e284-4763-b8b7-8643c319b2d0

Gridded hydrological model river flow estimates on a 1km grid over Northern Ireland for the period Dec 1980 - Nov 2011. The dataset includes monthly mean river flow, annual maxima of daily mean river flow (water years Oct - Sept) and annual minima of 7-day mean river flow (years spanning Dec-Nov) (units: m3/s). The data are provided in gridded netCDF files. There is one file for each variable.

To aid interpretation, three additional spatial datasets are provided: a) digitally-derived catchment areas and b) estimated locations of flow gauging stations both on the 1km x 1km grid and c) a 1km x 1km grid identifying majority lake cells.

The data were produced as part of UK-SCAPE (UK Status, Change And Projections of the Environment, Work Package 2: Case Study - Water) a NERC-funded National Capability Science Single Centre award.

Publication date: 2021-08-27

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Format

NetCDF

Spatial information

Study area

Spatial representation type

Raster

Spatial reference system

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

Temporal information

Temporal extent

1980-12-01 to 2011-11-30

Provenance & quality

This dataset is a model output from the Grid-to-Grid hydrological model (Bell et al. 2009; https://doi.org10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.08.031) driven by observed data. The meteorological variables used were:
- daily precipitation (CEH-GEAR; https://doi.org/10.5285/33604ea0-c238-4488-813d-0ad9ab7c51ca)
- daily min and max temperature (Met Office; https://doi.org/10.5285/2a62652a4fe6412693123dd6328f6dc8)
- monthly 40km grids of PE for short grass (MORECS; https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-1-227-1997)

See accompanying documenation for more details.

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

Cite this dataset as:

Kay, A.L.; Rudd, A.C.; Davies, H.N.; Lane, R.A.; Bell, V.A. (2021). Grid-to-Grid model estimates of river flow for Northern Ireland driven by observed data (1980 to 2011). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/f5fc1041-e284-4763-b8b7-8643c319b2d0

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Citations

Kay, A.L., Bell, V.A., Davies, H.N., Lane, R.A. & Rudd, A.C. (2023) The UKSCAPE-G2G river flow and soil moisture datasets: Grid-to-Grid model estimates for the UK for historical and potential future climates. Earth System Science Data 15, 2533–2546. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-2533-2023

Supplemental information

UKSCAPE

Kay, A.L., Davies, H.N., Lane, R. A., Rudd, A.C., & Bell, V.A. (2021). Grid-based simulation of river flows in Northern Ireland: Model performance and future flow changes. In Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies (Vol. 38, p. 100967). Elsevier BV.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2021.100967