Catchment boundaries, daily and sub-daily hydrometeorological time series, groundwater level time series and attributes for 671 catchments in Great Britain (CAMELS-GB v2)
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Derived from UK bedrock hydrogeological mapping and UK superficial productivity mapping, BGS © UKRI
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It collates river flows, river levels, groundwater levels, precipitation, potential evapotranspiration and temperature time series at monthly to hourly timescales. Daily hydro-meteorological timeseries are provided from 1st October 1970 – 30th September 2022, hourly hydro-meteorological timeseries are provided from 1st October 1990 09:00 to 1st October 2022 08:00, and groundwater level timeseries cover a range of time periods (ranging from 7 – 72 years with the earliest records beginning in the 1950s).
A comprehensive set of catchment attributes are quantified describing a range of catchment characteristics including topography, climate, hydrology, land cover, soils, hydrogeology, hydrometry and human influences.
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Comma-separated values (CSV), Shapefile
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For all datasets we have highlighted the key uncertainties and limitations of the underlying source data products and any methods used to derive the catchment attributes.
This dataset is intended for the community as a freely available, easily accessible dataset to use in a wide range of environmental data and modelling analyses.
Licensing and constraints
This dataset is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
You must always use the following attribution statement to acknowledge the source of the information: "Contains data supplied by UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, British Geological Survey, Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales and Scottish Environmental Protection Agency."
Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and database right. All rights reserved.
@UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
@University of Bristol
Contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency
Derived from UK bedrock hydrogeological mapping and UK superficial productivity mapping, BGS © UKRI
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Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/X018865/1
UKRI Award: ST/Y003713/1
European Union Award: 101075354
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/S007512/1