UK Surface Water Chemistry And Organic Matter Composition 2018-2021

Water chemistry and organic matter composition data collected from UK surface waters between 2018 and 2018. Variables include pH, conductivity, dissolved organic carbon, nutrients, anions, cations, metals, and organic matter metrics from carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen concentrations. Site metadata includes land use, vegetation cover, catchment area, and percentage peat cover.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal trends in dissolved organic carbon and nutrient concentrations across seasonal or monthly sampling intervals.
• Model relationships between organic matter composition metrics (carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen) and site-level peat cover percentage.
• Investigate spatial patterns in pH, conductivity, and metal concentrations relative to land use and vegetation cover metadata.
• Assess correlations between catchment area characteristics and measured anions and cations concentrations.

Strengths

• Multi-year temporal coverage from 2018 to 2021 with annual, seasonal, or monthly sampling.
• Includes diverse water chemistry variables (pH, nutrients, metals) and derived organic matter composition metrics.
• Site metadata provides contextual features like land use, vegetation cover, and peat cover percentage.

Limitations

• Exact geographic locations and site names are anonymized, limiting precise spatial analysis.
• Sample size and row count are unknown, preventing assessment of statistical power.

Provenance

Source

Environmental Information Data Centre

Collection Method

Water samples collected from UK surface waters.

Time Range

2018-2021

Freshness

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Geography

UK surface waters