Six riparian observatory sites in NE Scotland and NW England provide hourly measurements of soil water table height, flood inundation times, soil water temperature, and river water stage height. The dataset was created by the Environmental Information Data Centre as part of the NERC-funded CARRI project investigating riparian zone biogeochemistry. Monitoring occurred from 2023 to 2025.
Use Cases
- Analyze hillslope to floodplain water table dynamics based on hourly soil water table and river stage heights.
- Model river flood functions and inundation timing based on recorded flood events.
- Investigate the role of soil saturation on biogeochemistry based on temperature and water height data across six sites.
- Evaluate C, N, and P stock mobility and climate change sensitivity in riparian zones based on the observatory network.
Strengths
- Hourly temporal resolution for water table and river stage measurements.
- Data from six distinct observatory sites across NE Scotland and NW England.
- Includes verified observations aggregated into a single table with accompanying metadata describing variables, units, and procedures.
- Monitoring funded by a specific NERC project (NE/V012460/1), indicating a research-grade source.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the selected UK regions.
Provenance
- Source
- Environmental Information Data Centre
- Collection Method
- Monitoring carried out as part of the NERC-funded project 'Accelerating Nutrient Cycles at the Riparian Land : Water Interface'.
- Time Range
- 2023-2025
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-07 13:07:59.038571; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- NE Scotland and NW England