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Monthly Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) concentration time series (1883 to 2014) measured at the outlet of the Thames basin (UK)
The dataset consists of the world's longest fluvial dissolved organic carbon (DOC) record (1883-2014). The data have been measured at the outlet of the Thames basin, upstream of London (UK) and are reported monthly. The River Thames basin is a temperate, lowland, mineral soil-dominated catchment of 9,948 km2. Water colour data have been measured between 1883 and 1990, and DOC between 1990 and 2014. DOC until 1990 has been estimated through calibration between water colour and DOC for the period 1899-1905 when OC measurements were available. The fluvial DOC concentration shows an upward trend throughout the period. The data are presented as one table and one supporting file containing metadata and are summarised and presented in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences doi: 10.1002/2016JG003614. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/57943561-4587-4eb6-b14c-7adb90dc1dc8
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- Date (Publication)
- 2017-05-05
- Date (Creation)
- 2017-05-03
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/57943561-4587-4eb6-b14c-7adb90dc1dc8
- Citation identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/57943561-4587-4eb6-b14c-7adb90dc1dc8
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Noacco, V., Wagener, T., Worrall, F., Burt, T.P., Howden, N.J.K. (2017). Monthly Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) concentration time series (1883 to 2014) measured at the outlet of the Thames basin (UK). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/57943561-4587-4eb6-b14c-7adb90dc1dc8
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role University of Bristol Noacco, V.
Point of contact University of Bristol Noacco, V. Author University of Bristol Wagener, T. Author Durham University Worrall, F.
Author Durham University Burt, T.P.
Author University of Bristol Howden, N.J.K.
Author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher University of Bristol Owner
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- Not planned
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Environmental Monitoring Facilities
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- Keywords
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Thames Basin
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Dissolved organic carbon
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Water colour
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© Bristol University
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Noacco, V., Wagener, T., Worrall, F., Burt, T.P., Howden, N.J.K. (2017). Monthly Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) concentration time series (1883 to 2014) measured at the outlet of the Thames basin (UK). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/57943561-4587-4eb6-b14c-7adb90dc1dc8
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- Text, table
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- Environment
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- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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Name Version Comma-separated values (CSV)
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/57943561-4587-4eb6-b14c-7adb90dc1dc8.zip Supporting information
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/57943561-4587-4eb6-b14c-7adb90dc1dc8 Download the data
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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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Water color data and DOC concentration measurements (> 20,000 samples) were obtained by statutory authorities between 1883 and 2014 for the Thames at Hampton (51.42°N, 0.37°W) and at Teddington (51.43° N, 0.33° W), respectively. Water colour between 1883 and 1974 was measured following the method presented in Thresh et al., (1943). While water colour (1974-1990) and DOC (1990-2014) measurements were defined within the establishment of the Harmonised Monitoring Scheme. A detailed description of the datasets, including methodology and discussion of the findings can be found in the following peer-reviewed article: Noacco, V., T. Wagener, F. Worrall, T. P. Burt, and N. J. K. Howden (2017), Human impact on long-term organic carbon export to rivers, Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JG003614.
Metadata
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- 57943561-4587-4eb6-b14c-7adb90dc1dc8 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
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- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13T16:20:22
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
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2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Point of contact
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