UK Paired Rainfall and River Flow Events for 1203 Catchments, 1990-2016

1990-2016 data from the UKCEH Flood Event Data Suite, containing 174,450 paired rainfall and high-flow events extracted from time-series for 1203 river gauging stations and their catchments in Great Britain. The dataset includes 63 derived rainfall statistics and runoff signatures for each event. It was published by the Environmental Information Data Centre.

Use Cases

• Modeling flood event triggers based on paired rainfall and flow timeseries.
• Analyzing rainfall-runoff signatures based on the 63 derived statistics.
• Developing flood prediction systems based on historical event data from 1203 stations.
• Studying catchment response variability across Great Britain based on the station network.

Strengths

• Contains 174,450 identified flood events, providing a substantial event catalog.
• Covers 1203 river gauging stations and their upstream catchments across Great Britain.
• Includes 63 derived statistics per event for detailed hydrological analysis.
• Covers a 26-year period from 1990 to 2016.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Environmental Information Data Centre

Collection Method

Events identified and extracted from open-access UK precipitation and flow time-series using a defined procedure.

Time Range

1990-2016

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 09:36:04.361926; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Great Britain