Scottish Catchment Streamflow Change Attributions for 88 Sites

Probabilistic separation of climate change and land use change signals applied to 88 catchments across Scotland. The dataset, authored by Nicholas Wray and last updated in May 2026, indicates that Scottish hydrological regimes are no longer stationary. It includes results showing complex relationships between streamflow change and catchment area, compaction, and chosen flow metrics.

Use Cases

• Classifying catchments based on evolving hydrological responses as described in the study.
• Analyzing the dominance of climate change effects on streamflow beyond an area threshold.
• Investigating the sensitivity of catchment response to various physical descriptors mentioned.
• Modeling the probabilistic separation of climate and land use change signals as drivers of streamflow change.

Strengths

• Analysis covers 88 distinct catchments across Scotland.
• Dataset size is 4.3 MB, containing both PDF and CSV files for analysis and documentation.
• Uses a probabilistic method to separate climate and land use change signals.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Nicholas Wray via figshare

Collection Method

Probabilistic separation of signals applied to catchment data.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-26 09:25:13; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Scotland