Peatland River Water Quality and Carbon Time Series from Scotland

Environmental Information Data Centre provides a 2.5-year high-resolution time series of water quality and dissolved carbon from the Drumtree peatland river in Scotland. The dataset captures 261 individual flood events between May 2012 and December 2014, with measurements taken at 30-minute frequency using a field-deployable UV-Vis spectrometer.

Use Cases

• Analyze hysteresis patterns in dissolved organic matter concentrations across 261 identified flood events.
• Model relationships between discharge events and river chemistry parameters measured by the Scan Spectrolyser.
• Study temporal dynamics of peatland-derived carbon export using high-resolution 30-minute interval data.
• Characterize hydrograph shapes and their correlation with UV-Vis spectrometer readings for water quality.

Strengths

• High temporal resolution with 30-minute measurement frequency.
• Covers 2.5 years, including two full hydrological years.
• Contains records for 261 individually identified flood events.

Limitations

• Dataset scope is limited to a single river catchment (5.8 km2) in Southwest Scotland, limiting geographic generalizability.
• Unknown sample size and data volume due to unspecified row count.
• Data collection ended in December 2014, representing a historical snapshot.

Provenance

Source

Environmental Information Data Centre

Collection Method

Field measurements using a Scan Spectrolyser, a field-deployable UV-Vis light spectrometer.

Time Range

23 May 2012 to 16 December 2014

Freshness

Metadata was last updated in March 2026, but the underlying time-series data ends in December 2014.

Geography

Drumtree peatland river, Southwest Scotland, within the Whitelee Wind Farm complex (5.8 km2 catchment).