Date (Publication)

2014-04-30

Date (Creation)

2010-01-01

Citation identifier

CEH:EIDC: / 1386846758703

Citation identifier

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/d8ef71eb-3d22-4f98-af15-9d8e046ccb63

Citation identifier

doi: / 10.5285/d8ef71eb-3d22-4f98-af15-9d8e046ccb63

Other citation details

Laize, C.L.R., Acreman, M.C., Schneider, C., Dunbar, M.J., Houghton-Carr, H.A., Florke, M., Hannah, D.M. (2014). Ecological risk due to river flow alteration under climate and socioeconomic change scenarios. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/d8ef71eb-3d22-4f98-af15-9d8e046ccb63

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Laize, C.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Point of contact
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Laize, C.L.R.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Author
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Acreman, M.C.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Author
Centre for Environmental Systems Research	Schneider, C.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Author
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Dunbar, M.J.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Author
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Houghton-Carr, H.A.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Author
Centre for Environmental Systems Research	Florke, M.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Author
University of Birmingham	Hannah, D.M.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Author
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Custodian
NERC Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency

Unknown

Maintenance note

not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Environmental Monitoring Facilities

• Habitats and Biotopes

• Land Use

• Bio-geographical Regions

Keywords

• Climate and climate change
• Hydrology
• Modelling

• Europe

• streamflow

• water

• water levels

• river flow

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Licence terms and conditions apply

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CEH, Centre for Environmental Systems Research and the University of Birmingham must be acknowledged in all resultant publications

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If you use this dataset you must acknowledge the following resource: Laize, C.L.R.; Acreman, M.C.; Schneider, C.; Dunbar, M.J.; Houghton-Carr, H.A.; Florke, M.; Hannah, D.M.. 2013 Projected flow alteration and ecological risk for pan-European rivers. River Research and Applications.

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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Laize, C.L.R., Acreman, M.C., Schneider, C., Dunbar, M.J., Houghton-Carr, H.A., Florke, M., Hannah, D.M. (2014). Ecological risk due to river flow alteration under climate and socioeconomic change scenarios. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/d8ef71eb-3d22-4f98-af15-9d8e046ccb63

Spatial representation type

Text, table

Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Inland waters

Begin date

1961-01-01

End date

2050-12-31

Unique resource identifier

WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
Comma-separated values (CSV)

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

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	https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/d8ef71eb-3d22-4f98-af15-9d8e046ccb63	Download the data

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/d8ef71eb-3d22-4f98-af15-9d8e046ccb63.zip	Supporting information

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Dataset

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dataset

Statement

The river network was modelled as 33,668 cells (5° longitude; 5°latitude). For each cell, modelled monthly flows were generated for an ensemble of 10 scenarios for the 2050s and for the study baseline (naturalized flows for 1961-1990). These future scenarios consist of combinations of two climate scenarios and four socio-economic water-use scenarios (with a main driver of economy, policy, security or sustainability). Environmental flow implications are assessed using the new Ecological Risk due to Flow Alteration (ERFA) methodology, based on a set of monthly flow regime indicators (MFRIs). Differences in MFRIs between scenarios and baseline are calculated to derive ERFA classes (no, low, medium and high risk), which are based on the number of indicators significantly different from the baseline. ERFA classes are presented as colour-coded pan-European maps. Observed historical climate data for the reference period 1961-1990 were collated from the Climate Research Unit (University of East Anglia, UK). Projected future climate data for the period 2040-2069 (i.e. 2050s) were taken from two Global Circulation Models (GCMs): (i) IPSL-CM4, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, France (IPCM4 thereafter); and (ii) MIROC3.2, Center for Climate System Research, University of Tokyo, Japan (MIMR thereafter). These two GCMs were chosen after comparing nine GCMs from the IPCC Fourth Assessment (IPCC, 2007); they were considered representative of the variability between GCMs (Bärlund, 2010). For both GCMs, the IPCC SRES A2 emission scenario (IPCC, 2007) was selected. In total, 11 sets of modelled monthly flow series were generated using different combinations of climate data inputs and socio-economic scenarios. Naturalized flows for 1961-1990 were generated by running WaterGAP with the hydrological component only (i.e. no water usage) and the historical climate data from CRU as input.

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d8ef71eb-3d22-4f98-af15-9d8e046ccb63 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

8859 Part 1

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Hierarchy level name

dataset

Date stamp

2026-01-09T10:20:31

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		info@eidc.ac.uk	Point of contact