UK River Flow Projections on a 1km Grid (1980-2080)

Gridded hydrological model estimates of river flow for Great Britain from December 1980 to November 2080. The dataset includes monthly mean flow, annual maxima of daily mean flow, and annual minima of 7-day mean flow, provided as netCDF files. It was produced by the UK-SCAPE programme, funded by NERC.

Use Cases

• Projecting long-term water resource availability based on monthly mean river flow data.
• Assessing future flood risk based on annual maxima of daily mean river flow.
• Analyzing drought vulnerability based on annual minima of 7-day mean river flow.
• Spatial hydrological modeling using the provided 1km gridded data and catchment area layers.

Strengths

• Covers a 100-year time period from 1980 to 2080.
• Provides data on a high-resolution 1km x 1km grid over Great Britain.
• Includes multiple flow metrics: monthly mean, annual maxima, and annual minima with dates.

Limitations

• Dataset has been withdrawn, indicating potential issues with availability or quality.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Environmental Information Data Centre, produced as part of the UK-SCAPE programme.

Collection Method

Output from the Grid-to-Grid hydrological model driven by UK Climate Projections 2018 (UKCP18) Regional data.

Time Range

December 1980 to November 2080.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-19 07:33:17.766957; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Great Britain on a 1km grid.