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Gridded actual groundwater, surface water and tidal water abstraction, discharge and Hands-off Flow datasets for England (1999 to 2014)
This dataset contains recorded or ‘actual’ abstraction and discharge data for sites across England that have been transformed into 1 km × 1 km resolution gridded data along with surface water Hands-off Flow (HoF) conditions, and are available in CSV and/or NetCDF formats. It includes:
(i) Monthly abstractions (m3 month-1) from 1999 to 2014 for each source (Groundwater, Surface Water or Tidal Water)
(ii) Mean monthly abstractions (m3 month-1) over the period 2010 to 2014 for each source (Groundwater, Surface Water or Tidal Water)
(iii) Daily rate of Consented Dry Weather flow (CDWF)and Recent Actual (RACT) discharges (m3 day-1) based on information from a 6-year period ending in 2017
(iv) Hands-off Flow (HoF) conditions (m3 day-1) for 2022
Further details, including caveats about usage, are provided in the linked Data Document.
These data were sourced from the Environment Agency (EA) monthly groundwater, surface water and tidal water abstraction data from 1999 to 2014, and annual discharges and surface water Hands-off Flow (HoF) conditions were obtained from the EA’s Water Resources Geographic Information System (WRGIS 2017 and 2022 versions respectively).
This data publication is supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/X019063/1 as part of the Hydro-JULES programme delivering National Capability. The dataset is also linked with the Climate Services for a Net Zero Resilient World (CS-N0W) project.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2025-01-22T16:37:23
- Date (Creation)
- 2025-01-22T16:37:23
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/18886f95ba84447f997efac96df456ad
- Citation identifier
- NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 18886f95ba84447f997efac96df456ad
- Citation identifier
- doi / 10.5285/18886f95ba84447f997efac96df456ad
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Unavailable
Rameshwaran, Ponnambalam
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Bell, Victoria A.
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Davies, Helen N.
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Sadler, Paul
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Beverton, Andy
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Thornton, Richard
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Rhodes-Smith, Mark
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Author NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
Custodian NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
Distributor NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
pointofContact NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
Publisher
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Update scope
- Dataset
- Keywords
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Abstractions
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Discharges
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Hands-off Flow
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Artificial Influences
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Groundwater
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Surface Water
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Tidal Water
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Consented Dry Weather Flow
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Recent Actual Discharges
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CS-NOW
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England
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Hydrology
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River Flows
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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atmospheric conditions
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1999-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2014-01-01T00:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
- Distribution format
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Name Version NetCDF and BADC-CSV
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/18886f95ba84447f997efac96df456ad CEDA Data Catalogue Page
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/desnz-cs-now/data/gridded-actual-flows DOWNLOAD
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Protocol Linkage Name https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13746897 Data Document
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Protocol Linkage Name https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR029787 Relevant Journal Publication
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Protocol Linkage Name https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/672359d201ee25b06c4f9987/future-water-resources-hydrological-modelling.pdf Relevant Report Publication
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/climate-services-for-a-net-zero-resilient-world Climate services for a Net Zero resilient world (CS-N0W): overview
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- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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The abstraction and discharge datasets were sourced from the Environment Agency. Specifically, monthly groundwater, surface water and tidal water abstraction data were obtained from 1999 to 2014, and annual discharges and surface water Hands-off Flow (HoF) conditions were obtained from the EA’s Water Resources Geographic Information System (WRGIS 2017 and 2022 versions respectively). Due to national security data restrictions regarding the location of public water supply abstractions, publication of the dataset is limited to a 1 km x 1 km resolution. Information at a higher resolution has been removed or converted to a 1 km x 1 km resolution as appropriate, and any personal or identifying data has been removed.
These data were compiled by the project team before archival at EDS-CEDA
Metadata
- File identifier
- 18886f95ba84447f997efac96df456ad XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-04-16T02:26:01
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
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