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Source Attribution - deposition of nitrogen and sulphur to UK

This dataset contains 90 source footprints of nitrogen and sulphur deposition across the UK. Emission data from UK sources of nitrogen and sulphur for the year 2012 has been modelled using the FRAME (Fine Resolution Atmospheric Multi-Pollutant Exchange) atmospheric dispersion model on a 5 x 5 km grid. The data are split by into both wet and dry deposition, oxidised and reduced, as well as local vs long-range components. Habitat-specific deposition data are provided also for (i) forest, (i) moorland (short semi-natural vegetation), and (iii) grid average (average of arable, grassland, urban, forest and moorland land cover types). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/e5bfac9b-0642-4b5b-a780-e5801b2dab8b

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Date (Publication)
2017-08-07
Date (Creation)
2017-03-01
Citation identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/e5bfac9b-0642-4b5b-a780-e5801b2dab8b
Citation identifier
doi: / 10.5285/e5bfac9b-0642-4b5b-a780-e5801b2dab8b
Other citation details

Bealey, W.J., Dore, A.J. (2017). Source Attribution - deposition of nitrogen and sulphur to UK. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/e5bfac9b-0642-4b5b-a780-e5801b2dab8b

Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Bealey, W.J.

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Author
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Dore, A.J.

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
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Bealey, B.

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Atmospheric Conditions

Wikidata

  • European Environment Agency
  • Joint Nature Conservation Committee
  • Natural England
  • Northern Ireland Environment Agency
  • Northern Ireland Forum
  • Scottish Natural Heritage
  • Scottish Environment Protection Agency
  • Natural Resources Wales
  • Environment Agency
  • Atmospheric dispersion modeling

GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3

  • acid deposition
  • air pollution
  • ammonia
  • pollutant deposition
  • moor
  • grassland
  • nitrogen oxides
  • sulphur
  • ecosystem
  • sulphur dioxide
  • nitrogen
Keywords
  • Pollution
  • source attribution

  • nitrogen deposition

  • atmospheric pollution

  • Air pollution dispersion terminology

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© UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Natural Resources Wales, Environment Agency, the Northern Ireland Environment Agency, Natural England, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), Scotland and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research (SNIFFER), the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH)

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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Bealey, W.J., Dore, A.J. (2017). Source Attribution - deposition of nitrogen and sulphur to UK. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/e5bfac9b-0642-4b5b-a780-e5801b2dab8b

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Distance
5000  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Language
English
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UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
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Unique resource identifier
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
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Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

info@eidc.ac.uk

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OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/e5bfac9b-0642-4b5b-a780-e5801b2dab8b/e5bfac9b-0642-4b5b-a780-e5801b2dab8b.zip

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https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/e5bfac9b-0642-4b5b-a780-e5801b2dab8b.zip

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dataset

Conformance result

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

The FRAME (Fine Resolution Multi-pollutant Exchange) model was used to assess the long-term annual mean deposition of reduced and oxidised nitrogen and sulphur over the United Kingdom. Emissions of Sulphur and Nitrogen for input into the model were split into 160 different sub-sectoral emission categories. This included 22 individual point sources and background 'area' emissions of SO2, NOx and NH3 split into 11 SNAP sectors (Selected Nomenclature for Air Pollution, European Environment Agency, 2013), international shipping and European import emissions. For each 5 km grid square across the domain, pollutant compounds for SOx, NOy and NHx deposition were calculated for all footprints. In addition the output deposition data was split into more detailed chemical species to provide an approximation of how much of each 'source attribution type (e.g. livestock, fertiliser, shipping, etc.) is a short or long range input. Deposition data was output to three different ecosystem types: forest, moorland (representing short semi-natural vegetation) and a grid average (an average of arable, grassland, urban, forest and moorland). The resulting datasets were calibrated to CBED - Concentration Based Estimated Deposition for the three-year period 2011-2013. The full methodology is available in the contextual metadata which can be found attached to this record. The work in generating and compiling this dataset has been funded by the UK pollution and conservation agencies: Natural Resources Wales (NRW), the Environment Agency, Northern Ireland Environment Agency, Natural England, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), Scotland and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research (SNIFFER), the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), and Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH).

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File identifier
e5bfac9b-0642-4b5b-a780-e5801b2dab8b XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
8859 Part 1
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Dataset
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dataset

Date stamp
2025-11-13T16:24:21
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

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Atmospheric Conditions


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