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Integrated Hydrological Units of the United Kingdom: Sections
This dataset is part of Integrated Hydrological Units (IHU) of the UK, a set of geographical reference units for hydrological purposes including river flow measurement and hydrometric data collection. A Section is the drainage area of a watercourse between two confluences. Only confluences of named watercourses were considered. Each Section carries a name constructed from names of the major river flowing through the Section, the major river flowing into the Section, and the major river into which the Section flows. Sections are spatially consistent with Groups: each Group is made up of one or more Section. Each Section is associated with one Catchment representing the full area upstream from the Section outlet. Identifiers and attributes have been calculated so that direct upstream and direct downstream IHU units can be selected. This layer currently covers Great Britain only as no dataset with river geometries and names with suitable detail is available for Northern Ireland. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/a6e37e39-9e10-4647-a110-12d902403095
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- Date (Publication)
- 2015-02-05
- Date (Creation)
- 2014-08-20
- Citation identifier
- CEH:EIDC: / 1425380883797
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/a6e37e39-9e10-4647-a110-12d902403095
- Citation identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/a6e37e39-9e10-4647-a110-12d902403095
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Kral, F., Fry, M., Dixon, H. (2015). Integrated Hydrological Units of the United Kingdom: Sections. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/a6e37e39-9e10-4647-a110-12d902403095
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Point of contact National River Flow Archive
Owner Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Kral, F.
Author Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Fry, M.
Author Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Dixon, H. Author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher
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- Irregular
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New versions unlikely to be released more than annually
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Hydrography
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- Terms and Conditions apply
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Kral, F., Fry, M., Dixon, H. (2015). Integrated Hydrological Units of the United Kingdom: Sections. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/a6e37e39-9e10-4647-a110-12d902403095
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- Inland waters
- Begin date
- 2014-08-20
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- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
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Name Version File geodatabase
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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/a6e37e39-9e10-4647-a110-12d902403095 Download the data
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/a6e37e39-9e10-4647-a110-12d902403095.zip Supporting information
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/maps/cca47088-8cdd-4d7a-86b4-90f0a1766364?request=getCapabilities&service=WMS Map view service
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Conformance result
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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 main inputs for development of Integrated Hydrological Units (IHU) of the UK were data held by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Specifically, the cumulative catchment area raster and outflow raster from the Integrated Hydrological Digital Terrain Model (IHDTM) [1]. The vast majority of the watercourse names come from the subset of CEH UK river centreline network enriched by names from Ordnance Survey 1:50K Gazetteer [2]. Some names were obtained from or verified using other readily available sources like OpenStreetMap (openstreetmap.org) and WikiPedia (wikipedia.org). Bespoke FORTRAN functions, part of the CEH Flood Estimation Handbook code set, were used for catchment delineation. These functions enable sensible interlocking catchments boundaries to be created for the whole IHDTM surface. The option that does not leave gaps between catchments was specified [1]. Except for the catchment delineation, ArcGIS was used as the main GIS platform. Custom Python code was developed to drive the whole process and to perform hierarchical and network tasks. The full name of each IHU Section was derived from three rivers defining the section: the largest (in terms of cumulative catchment area) inflowing river other than the main river in the Section, the main river in the Section, and the largest river flowing into the downstream Section. If no such inflows exist, words 'Source', 'Sea', or the name of the main river in the downstream Section are used as appropriate. A similar approach was adopted for IHU Group names, although group names were edited manually to a great extent to ensure they are simple and readily understood. [1] Morris, D.G. and Flavin, R.W. 1990. A Digital Terrain Model for Hydrology. Proc 4th Int. Symposium on Spatial Data Handling. Zurich, 1, 250-262. [2] Moore R V, Morris D G and Flavin R W, 1994. Sub-set of UK digital 1:50,000 scale river centreline network. NERC, Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford.
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- a6e37e39-9e10-4647-a110-12d902403095 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
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- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-03-21T09:38:00
- 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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