BGS Hosted Metadata
UK lowland river chemistry
Chemical analysis of stream, river and rainfall samples for lowland rivers in the UK. The data are uncensored and provide a basis for research purposes, and must be viewed in this light. Information on analytical methodologies is available, including detection limits, from which the user can choose how the data might be interpreted. The basins studied were the Tweed, Wear, Humber, Great Ouse and Thames. One tributary (the Teviot) and two main-stem sites were monitored in the Tweed Catchment. One site around two-thirds down the catchment of the River Wear was monitored. Humber Basin Monitoring was undertaken for all the tributaries especially near their downstream limits. The Great Ouse was monitored around half way down the catchment. The Thames catchment was monitored upstream and downstream of sewage inputs to the river, prior and post effluent stripping of phosphorus. This work formed part of a major UK initiative introduced in the early 1990s, the Land Ocean Interaction Study, LOIS, to examine water, chemical and sediment fluxes from the eastern UK rivers to the North Sea. The entire LOIS core monitoring data, including a wider range of determinands, is available from EIDC. As part of this and subsequent work, the initiative was extended to examine a range of catchment basins, from rural to agricultural and industrial/urban impacted ones.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-31
- Citation identifier
- CEH:EIDC: / 1293030018470
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/8e23a86b-6b54-4564-9789-23f4b4e045ea
- Point of contact
-
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Point of contact NERC Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
-
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
-
-
Environmental Monitoring Facilities
-
-
GeoNames
- Keywords
-
- Water quality
-
Analytical chemistry
-
Hydrochemistry
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Registration is required to access this data
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Licence terms and conditions apply
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Denominator
- 10000
- Distance
- 100 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
-
- Environment
- Begin date
- 1993-09-07
- End date
- 2009-10-27
))
- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
- Distribution format
-
Name Version Comma-separated values (CSV)
- Distributor contact
-
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Distributor
- OnLine resource
-
Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/8e23a86b-6b54-4564-9789-23f4b4e045ea Download the data
- OnLine resource
-
Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/8e23a86b-6b54-4564-9789-23f4b4e045ea.zip Supporting documentation
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Other
-
dataset
Conformance result
- Title
-
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
-
Water quality was monitored for eastern UK rivers (Tweed and Humber) as part of the Land Ocean Interaction Study, LOIS, in the early 1990s. Subsequently, the monitoring was transferred to the Wear, Great Ouse and most extensively to the Thames Basin and for the latter, rainfall was also measured . The chemical analysis undertaken within the LOIS programme was undertaken within CEH laboratories at Wallingford (then Institute of Hydrology), Ferry House (Institute of Freshwater Ecology, Windermere) and associated CEH laboratories at York and Stirling. The later analysis was undertaken by the CEH Wallingford Laboratories with phosphorus data for the Wear was measured in collaboration with Professor Brian Whitton at the University of Durham. All data collated by Colin Neal of CEH Wallingford
Metadata
- File identifier
- 8e23a86b-6b54-4564-9789-23f4b4e045ea XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
-
dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-01-09T10:20:46
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
-
2.3
- Metadata author
-
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Point of contact
)))
