9257a999-2844-4be1-80d1-fd29e2ccf9ef English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:22:33 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Daily rainfall, stream discharge and hydraulic conductivity of soils from catchments dominated by different vegetation types, Western Ghats, India, 2014-2016 2020-06-24 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/9257a999-2844-4be1-80d1-fd29e2ccf9ef 10.5285/9257a999-2844-4be1-80d1-fd29e2ccf9ef doi: Bhalla, R.S., Krishnsawamy, J., Chappell, N.A., Kumaran, K., Vaidyanathan, S., Nayak, R., Ghatwai, P. (2020). Daily rainfall, stream discharge and hydraulic conductivity of soils from catchments dominated by different vegetation types, Western Ghats, India, 2014-2016. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/9257a999-2844-4be1-80d1-fd29e2ccf9ef Data are presented for daily rainfall, stream discharge and hydraulic conductivity of soils from catchments located in the Upper Nilgiris Reserve Forest in the state of Tamil Nadu. The catchments are dominated by four land cover types, shola, grassland, pine and wattle. The data were collected between May 2014 and December 2016. Tipping bucket wired rain gauges were used to measure rainfall. Stream discharge was measured from stilling wells and capacitance probe-based water level recorders. A mini-disk infiltrometer was used to measure the hydraulic conductivity of soils. Dry season data has not been included in this dataset as its focus is on extreme rain events. The data were collected as part of a series of eco-hydrology projects that explored the impact of land cover on rain-runoff response, carbon sequestration and nutrient and sediment discharge. The dataset presented here was collected by a team of three to five researchers and field assistants who were engaged in the installation of the data loggers and their regular operation and maintenance. Four research agencies have partnered across multiple projects to sustain the data collection efforts that started in June 2013 and continue (June 2020). These are the Foundation for Ecological Research, Advocacy and Learning - Pondicherry, the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment - Bangalore, the Lancaster Environmental Centre, Lancaster University - UK, and the National Centre for Biological Sciences - Bangalore. Funding was provided by Ministry of Earth Sciences Government of India from the Changing Water Cycle programme (Grant Ref: MoES/NERC/16/02/10 PC-II) and the Hydrologic footprint of Invasive Alien Species project (MOES/PAMC/H&C/85/2016-PC-II). Additional funding was provided by UKRI Natural Environment Research Council grant NE/I022450/1 (Western Ghats-Capacity within the NERC Changing Water Cycle programme) and WWF-India as part of the Noyyal-Bhavani program.This research took place inside protected areas in the Nilgiri Division for which permissions and support were provided continually by the Tamil Nadu Forest Department, particularly the office of the District Forest Officer, Udhagamandalam. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/9257a999-2844-4be1-80d1-fd29e2ccf9ef Bhalla, R.S. Foundation for Ecological Research, Advocacy and Learning bhalla@feralindia.org https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6551-4470 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information pointOfContact Bhalla, R.S. Foundation for Ecological Research, Advocacy and Learning bhalla@feralindia.org https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6551-4470 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Krishnsawamy, J. Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment jagdish@atree.org https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7985-0005 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Chappell, N.A. Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University n.chappell@lancaster.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6683-951X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Kumaran, K. Foundation for Ecological Research, Advocacy and Learning kumaran.k.b@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8569-8844 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Vaidyanathan, S. Foundation for Ecological Research, Advocacy and Learning srinivasv@feralindia.org https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3642-0309 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Nayak, R. Foundation for Ecological Research, Advocacy and Learning rajat@feralindia.org https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6128-6853 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Ghatwai, P. Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment prachi.108@gmail.com author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher notPlanned Land cover Hydrology Soil Tipping bucket wired rain gauge stilling wells capacitance probe mini-disk infiltrometer Southern Western Ghats Upper Nilgiris India Daily rainfall Daily discharge hydraulic conductivity Impacts of land cover otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions © Foundation for Ecological Research, Advocacy and learning otherRestrictions © Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment otherRestrictions © Lancaster Environment Centre – Lancaster University otherRestrictions © National Centre for Biological Sciences otherRestrictions © Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India otherRestrictions © Natural Environmental Research Council, UK otherRestrictions © WWF-India otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Bhalla, R.S., Krishnsawamy, J., Chappell, N.A., Kumaran, K., Vaidyanathan, S., Nayak, R., Ghatwai, P. (2020). Daily rainfall, stream discharge and hydraulic conductivity of soils from catchments dominated by different vegetation types, Western Ghats, India, 2014-2016. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/9257a999-2844-4be1-80d1-fd29e2ccf9ef textTable 20 English utf8 climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere 2014-05-01 2016-12-31 76.552 76.585 11.274 11.31 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/9257a999-2844-4be1-80d1-fd29e2ccf9ef Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/9257a999-2844-4be1-80d1-fd29e2ccf9ef.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset 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 2010-12-08 Tipping bucket wired rain gauges were used to measure rainfall. Stream discharge was measured from stilling wells and capacitance probe based water level recorders. A mini-disk infiltrometer was used to measure the hydraulic conductivity of soils. Data from loggers on the rain gauges and water level recorder were downloaded fortnightly onto field laptops. Field notes were maintained for the hydraulic conductivity data and for recording metadata during field visits. Data was processed in the field station using R scripts which included routines to plot and visualise data to assure quality. Rainfall and discharge data were aggregated to daily time steps and output as a .csv file for deposit into the EIDC.