Hourly Lake Temperature and Atmospheric Measurements at Blelham Tarn, 2019

Hourly data from an automatic water monitoring buoy in Blelham Tarn records air temperature, solar radiation flux, wind speed, and lake water temperatures at 13 depths from 0.5 to 12 meters. The dataset was collected in 2019 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme supported by the Natural Environment Research Council. All measurements are timestamped in Greenwich Mean Time.

Use Cases

• Model the relationship between solar radiation flux and lake water temperatures at various depths to study thermal stratification.
• Analyze correlations between hourly wind speed and air temperature measurements to understand local atmospheric dynamics.
• Build a time-series model to forecast lake temperature at the 10 m depth based on surface conditions like air temperature and solar radiation.

Strengths

• Provides high-resolution hourly measurements for detailed temporal analysis.
• Includes a detailed temperature depth profile with measurements at 13 specific depths from 0.5 to 12 meters.
• Data collection is supported by a specific research grant (NE/R016429/1) under the UK-SCAPE programme.

Limitations

• The dataset is limited to a single year (2019) and a single location (Blelham Tarn), restricting temporal and geographic generalizability.
• The total number of rows and file size are unknown, making it difficult to assess the dataset's scale and manage computational resources.

Provenance

Source

Environmental Information Data Centre

Collection Method

Measured by an automatic monitoring buoy.

Time Range

2019

Freshness

Last updated in March 2026, but the underlying data is from 2019.

Geography

Blelham Tarn, Lake District National Park, United Kingdom