Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) meteorological data from Abbotts Hall, Essex

The meteorological data describes the air and soil temperatures, net radiation balance, down-welling photosynthetically active radiation, wind speed, wind direction and the vapour pressure deficit. Data collection was carried out at Abbotts Hall marsh from the 15th of December 2012 till the 27th of January 2015. The Abbotts Hall site is in Essex, South East England, and the meteorological tower was situated in the middle of the marsh. This data was collected as part of Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS): NE/J015644/1. The project was funded with support from the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (BESS) programme. BESS is a six-year programme (2011-2017) funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) as part of the UK's Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) programme. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/dd2f7d23-6f11-4053-bc18-3cf2431c1963

Date (Publication): 2016-02-29

Date (Creation): 2015-01-27

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/dd2f7d23-6f11-4053-bc18-3cf2431c1963

Citation identifier: doi: / 10.5285/dd2f7d23-6f11-4053-bc18-3cf2431c1963

Other citation details: Hill, T.C., Chocholek, M. (2016). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) meteorological data from Abbotts Hall, Essex. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/dd2f7d23-6f11-4053-bc18-3cf2431c1963

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
University of Exeter	Hill, T.	t.c.hill@exeter.ac.uk	Point of contact
University of Exeter	Hill, T.C.	t.c.hill@exeter.ac.uk	Author
University of St Andrews	Chocholek, M.	mc422@st-andrews.ac.uk	Author
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Custodian
NERC Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Publisher
University of Exeter		EMAIL NOT PROVIDED	Owner

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Maintenance note: Dataset is complete.

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temperature
BESS
CBESS
relative humidity
vapour pressure deficit (VPD)
photosynthetically active radiation (PAR)
net radiation
air
wind direction
wind speed

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Other constraints: If you reuse this data, you should cite: Hill, T.C., Chocholek, M. (2016). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) meteorological data from Abbotts Hall, Essex. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/dd2f7d23-6f11-4053-bc18-3cf2431c1963

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Language: English

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2012-12-15

End date: 2015-01-27

Unique resource identifier: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Distributor

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Title: 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: Measurements are recorded on Campbell Scientific (CS) dataloggers. The wind direction and wind speed are measured at 10 Hz by a CS CSAT3A anemometer install at 4.3 m on a lattice tower by a CS CR3000 datalogger. The remaining variables are record at 1/60 Hz (i.e. every minute) by a CS CR1000 with multiplexer. Air temperature and humidity is measured with Vaisala HMP155A and then converted to Vapour Pressure deficit (VPD). Precipitation is record by an Environmental Measurements Limited (EML) ARG100 tipping bucket rain gauge. Net radiation is measured with a Kipp and Zonen NR Lite. Photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) is measured with a Skye Instruments SKP215. Soil temperatures are measured with CS 107 thermistors. Mean half hourly values were calculated in Matlab. The time refers to the middle of the half hourly period. E.g. 00:15 refers to the half hour from (and including) 00:00 up to (but not including) 00:30.

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Date stamp: 2025-11-13T16:19:49

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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Point of contact

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