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CS-NOW: Gridded future projections of natural and artificially influenced river flows (1980 to 2080)
The Grid-to-Grid (G2G) river flow model projections comprise an ensemble of natural and artificially influenced (AI) estimates of daily mean river flows (m3s-1). These flow projections are for a historical and future period spanning 1st December 1980 to 30th November 2080 and reflect scenarios of change in both climate and artificial (anthropogenic) influences (abstractions and discharges).
The historical and future projections are available in two formats:
(i) 1 km × 1 km gridded daily mean river flows (m3s-1) for two spatial regions: Natural river flows across Great Britain, and Artificially influenced river flows across England
(ii) Time series of daily flows for 626 catchments across England
The climate projections consist of an ensemble of bias-corrected UKCP18 Regional Climate Model (RCM) output. A further 4 hydrological connectivity datasets provide flow directions, upstream areas and coastal/gauged locations. Further details are provided in a linked Data Document.
Three future scenarios of artificial influences are considered:
(a) Sustainability (SUS),
(b) Business as usual (BAU) and
(c) Economic Growth (EG).
The dataset is an output from the CS-NOW project (Climate services for a Net Zero resilient world - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)), commissioned by the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ). Publication of these data is also supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/X019063/1 as part of the Hydro-JULES programme delivering National Capability.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2025-01-22T16:35:05
- Date (Creation)
- 2025-01-22T16:35:05
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/cf66055440344d7eb9b6f834e81736c6
- Citation identifier
- NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / cf66055440344d7eb9b6f834e81736c6
- Citation identifier
- doi / 10.5285/cf66055440344d7eb9b6f834e81736c6
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Unavailable
Rameshwaran, Ponnambalam
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Bell, Victoria A.
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Davies, Helen N.
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Baron, Helen
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Keller, Virginie
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Hannaford, Jamie
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Rhodes-Smith, Mark
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Author NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
Custodian NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
Distributor NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
pointofContact NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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- Dataset
- Keywords
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Hydrology
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Modelling
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Daily River Flows
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Abstractions
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Discharges
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Artificial Influences
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UKCP18
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Climate Projection
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UK
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CS-N0W
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CS-NOW
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Natural River Flows
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Artificially Influenced River Flows
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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atmospheric conditions
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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- Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Language
- English
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1980-12-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2080-12-01T00:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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Name Version NetCDF and BADC-CSV
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/cf66055440344d7eb9b6f834e81736c6 CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Protocol Linkage Name http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/desnz-cs-now/data/gridded-proj-river-flows DOWNLOAD
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Protocol Linkage Name https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10958783 Data documentation
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Protocol Linkage Name https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR029787 Journal Publication: Use of Abstraction and Discharge Data to Improve the Performance of a National-Scale Hydrological Model
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Protocol Linkage Name https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/672359d201ee25b06c4f9987/future-water-resources-hydrological-modelling.pdf Hydrological modelling and artificial influences: performance assessment
& future scenarios. CS-NOW-D2 – Future water resources for water intensive energy infrastructure
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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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This dataset comprise an ensemble of natural and artificially influenced (AI) estimates of daily mean river flows (m3s-1). These flow projections are for a historical and future period spanning 1st December 1980 to 30th November 2080 and reflect scenarios of change in both climate and artificial (anthropogenic) influences (abstractions and discharges). Data were produced by the project team before archival at EDS-CEDA
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- cf66055440344d7eb9b6f834e81736c6 XML
- Metadata language
- English
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- UTF8
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- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-04-16T02:25:59
- 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 Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
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