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Long term and high frequency monitoring of lakes in the English Lake District

A wide range of data has been collected from a variety of freshwater lakes in the English Lake District, ranging from fish characteristics to meteorological data and water chemistry. These data have been collected over a long period of time, in some cases since 1940 to date. Some of the the data were initially collected by the Freshwater Biological Association (FBA) at Windermere, but have been collected by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) and its predecessor Institute of Freshwater Ecology (IFE) since 1989.

This data collection contains these resources

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Surface temperature, surface oxygen, water clarity, water chemistry and phytoplankton chlorophyll a data from Esthwaite Water, UK, 2019-2020
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Surface temperature, surface oxygen, water clarity, water chemistry and phytoplankton chlorophyll a data from Windermere North Basin, UK, 2019-2020
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Hypolimnion temperature and oxygen data from Esthwaite Water, UK, 2005-2009
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Hypolimnion temperature and oxygen data from Windermere North Basin, UK, 2005-2009
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Hourly water temperature of 16 experimental mesocosms and hourly air temperature from April to November 2023
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Surface temperature, surface oxygen, water clarity, water chemistry and phytoplankton chlorophyll a data from Blelham Tarn, 2019-2020
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Surface temperature, surface oxygen, water clarity, water chemistry and phytoplankton chlorophyll a data from Windermere South Basin, 2019-2020
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Chlorophyll absorbance data from lake and river samples incubated with different nutrient combinations in the English Lake District, Norfolk Broads and Greater Glasgow, 2017-2018
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Hourly data from automatic water monitoring buoy from Blelham Tarn, 2019
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Hourly relative humidity data from automatic water monitoring buoy from Blelham Tarn 2012 to 2019
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Hourly data from automatic water monitoring buoy from Windermere South Basin, 2016 to 2018
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Hourly data from automatic water monitoring buoy from Blelham Tarn, 2016 to 2018
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Surface temperature, surface oxygen, water clarity, water chemistry and phytoplankton chlorophyll a data from Bassenthwaite Lake, 2014 to 2018
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Surface temperature, surface oxygen, water clarity, water chemistry and phytoplankton chlorophyll a data from Blelham Tarn, 2014 to 2018
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Surface temperature, surface oxygen, water clarity, water chemistry and phytoplankton chlorophyll a data from Derwent Water, 2014 to 2018
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Surface temperature, surface oxygen, water clarity, water chemistry and phytoplankton chlorophyll a data from Esthwaite Water, 2014 to 2018
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Surface temperature, surface oxygen, water clarity, water chemistry and phytoplankton chlorophyll a data from Grasmere, 2014 to 2018
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Surface temperature, surface oxygen, water clarity, water chemistry and phytoplankton chlorophyll a data from Windermere North Basin, 2014 to 2018
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Surface temperature, surface oxygen, water clarity, water chemistry and phytoplankton chlorophyll a data from Windermere South Basin, 2014 to 2018
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Cumbrian Lakes Monitoring thermal stratification timing 1951-2017
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Blelham Tarn: Ecological and chemical lake profiles, and inflow and outflow chemistry 2016-17
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Surface temperature, surface oxygen, water clarity, water chemistry and phytoplankton chlorophyll a data from Blelham Tarn, 1945 to 2013
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Surface temperature, surface oxygen, water clarity, water chemistry and phytoplankton chlorophyll a data from Esthwaite Water, 1945 to 2013
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Surface temperature, surface oxygen, water clarity, water chemistry and phytoplankton chlorophyll a data from Grasmere, 1968 to 2013
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Surface temperature, surface oxygen, water clarity, water chemistry and phytoplankton chlorophyll a data from Windermere North Basin, 1945 to 2013
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Surface temperature, surface oxygen, water clarity, water chemistry and phytoplankton chlorophyll a data from Windermere South Basin, 1945 to 2013
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Surface temperature, surface oxygen, water clarity, water chemistry and phytoplankton chlorophyll a data from Bassenthwaite Lake, 1990 to 2013
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Surface temperature, surface oxygen, water clarity, water chemistry and phytoplankton chlorophyll a data from Derwent Water, 1990 to 2013
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Data from automatic water monitoring buoy from Bassenthwaite Lake, 2012 to 2015
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Data from automatic water monitoring buoy from Esthwaite Water, 2012 to 2015
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Data from automatic water monitoring buoy from Blelham Tarn, 2012 to 2015
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Data from automatic water monitoring buoy from Windermere south basin, 2012 to 2015
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Data from meteorological station next to Esthwaite Water, 2012 to 2015
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Data from automatic water monitoring buoy from Blelham Tarn, 2008 to 2011
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Data from meteorological station next to Esthwaite Water, 2008 to 2011
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Data from automatic water monitoring buoy from Bassenthwaite Lake, 2008 to 2011
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Data from automatic water monitoring buoy from Esthwaite Water, 2008 to 2011
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Data from automatic water monitoring buoy from Windermere south basin, 2008 to 2011
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Cumbrian Lakes plankton and fish data (1940 to 2013)
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Windermere pike fecundity and egg data 1963-2003
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Windermere perch data 1946-2012
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Windermere fish abundance 1940-2012