d029bb43-5722-4932-9c14-be316a2e7144 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 2025-11-13T16:19:21 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Cumbrian Lakes Monitoring thermal stratification timing 1951-2017 2021-03-19 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/d029bb43-5722-4932-9c14-be316a2e7144 10.5285/d029bb43-5722-4932-9c14-be316a2e7144 doi: Mackay, E.B., Clarke, M.A., Dodd, B.A., Feuchtmayr, H., Fletcher, J.M., James, J.B., Maberly, S.C., Rhodes, G., Thackeray, S.J. (2021). Cumbrian Lakes Monitoring thermal stratification timing 1951-2017. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/d029bb43-5722-4932-9c14-be316a2e7144 The dataset contains the day of year for the onset and end of thermal stratification and its total length in Blelham Tarn, Esthwaite Water, Windermere, north basin and Windermere, south basin between 1951 and 2017. This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/d029bb43-5722-4932-9c14-be316a2e7144 Mackay, E.B. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5697-7062 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 Clarke, M.A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Dodd, B.A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Feuchtmayr, H. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Fletcher, J.M. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author James, J.B. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Maberly, S.C. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Rhodes, G. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Thackeray, S.J. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Mackay, E. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk owner Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Water quality Lakes Thermal stratification Stratification onset Stratification overturn Stratification duration Climate indicator Long term change Cumbrian Lakes Monitoring United Kingdom UK-SCAPE otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Mackay, E.B., Clarke, M.A., Dodd, B.A., Feuchtmayr, H., Fletcher, J.M., James, J.B., Maberly, S.C., Rhodes, G., Thackeray, S.J. (2021). Cumbrian Lakes Monitoring thermal stratification timing 1951-2017. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/d029bb43-5722-4932-9c14-be316a2e7144 textTable 10 English utf8 inlandWaters environment 1951-01-01 2017-12-31 -3.097 -2.903 54.262 54.43 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/d029bb43-5722-4932-9c14-be316a2e7144 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/d029bb43-5722-4932-9c14-be316a2e7144.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 The data were calculated from temperature profiles taken in each lake at the deepest point, using a calibrated temperature-oxygen sensor. Water temperatures were converted to density and the lake was considered stratified when the density gradient between the surface and bottom of the lake was >0.1 kg m-3. The start day of the main summer stratified period was considered to be the latest day before day of year 200 where a stratified period had a duration >14 days, the end day was defined as the final day of stratification for that stratified period and the duration calculated as the difference between these two days. More detail on the method used can be found in the supporting documentation.