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Weekly water quality data from the River Thames and its major tributaries, 2009-2023
This dataset comprises weekly water quality monitoring data of seven sites along the River Thames, UK, and sixteen of its major tributaries from Feburary 2009 to December 2023. Monitored determinands include major nutrient fractions, anions, cations, metals, pH, alkalinity, and chlorophyll. This catchment-wide biogeochemical monitoring platform captures changes in the water quality of the Thames basin during a period of rapid change, related to increasing pressures (due to a rapidly growing human population, increasing water demand and climate change) and improvements in sewage treatment processes and agricultural practices. The dataset provides the research community with a valuable data and modelling resource for furthering our understanding of pollution sources and dynamics, and vital underpinning environmental data required to best manage this vital drinking water resource, which is key for the sustainability of the city of London and the wider UK economy. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/703af27b-ce8c-44e0-ac20-b46e391a64ef
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- Date (Publication)
- 2025-05-27
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/703af27b-ce8c-44e0-ac20-b46e391a64ef
- Citation identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/703af27b-ce8c-44e0-ac20-b46e391a64ef
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Bowes, M.J., Armstrong, L.K., Nicholls, D.J.E., Williams, M., O’Brien, A., Duenas-Lopez, M.A., Duke, E., Juergens, M.D. (2025). Weekly water quality data from the River Thames and its major tributaries, 2009-2023. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/703af27b-ce8c-44e0-ac20-b46e391a64ef
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Bowes, M.J. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Armstrong, L.K.
Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Nicholls, D.J.E.
Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Williams, M.
Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology O’Brien, A.
Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Duenas-Lopez, M.A.
Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Duke, E.
Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Juergens, M.D. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Bowes, M.J. Point of contact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Owner
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Hydrography
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GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3
- Keywords
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- Environmental risk
- Water quality
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Thames Catchment
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Southeast England
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Nutrients
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- no limitations
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Bowes, M.J., Armstrong, L.K., Nicholls, D.J.E., Williams, M., O’Brien, A., Duenas-Lopez, M.A., Duke, E., Juergens, M.D. (2025). Weekly water quality data from the River Thames and its major tributaries, 2009-2023. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/703af27b-ce8c-44e0-ac20-b46e391a64ef
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- Text, table
- Distance
- 100 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- Inland waters
- Environment
- Begin date
- 2009-02-01
- End date
- 2023-12-31
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- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
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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/data/703af27b-ce8c-44e0-ac20-b46e391a64ef Download the data
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/703af27b-ce8c-44e0-ac20-b46e391a64ef.zip Supporting information
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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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All water samples were collected by fieldworkers from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), Wallingford. All chemical analysis was carried out by the Nutrient Chemistry Laboratories at CEH Wallingford.
Metadata
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- 703af27b-ce8c-44e0-ac20-b46e391a64ef XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
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- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13T16:23:44
- 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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