UK Freshwater Chemistry and Dissolved Organic Matter Elemental Content, 2018-19

Water chemistry data and elemental content of dissolved organic matter (DOM) extracted from UK freshwaters between 2018 and 2019. The dataset contains site characteristics like water body type and elevation, alongside water chemistry measurements including pH, dissolved organic carbon (DOC), and particulate organic carbon (POC). It results from an experiment to determine the reliability of various DOM extraction methods.

Use Cases

• Compare the carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen content of DOM extracted by different methods to assess extraction reliability.
• Analyze relationships between site characteristics like elevation or catchment area and water chemistry variables such as pH and DOC concentration.
• Model dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations based on water body type and other site-specific factors.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple analytical dimensions: site characteristics, water chemistry, and elemental composition of extracted DOM.
• Covers a defined temporal range of 2018-2019 for UK freshwater samples.
• Results from a controlled experiment specifically designed to test DOM extraction method reliability.

Limitations

• Unknown sample size (row count) and specific feature count (columns), limiting assessment of statistical power.
• Geographic scope is limited to the United Kingdom, which may not be representative of other regions.
• Data availability and completeness for all described variables (e.g., POC, elemental analysis) are not specified.

Provenance

Source

Environmental Information Data Centre

Collection Method

Data resulted from an experiment to determine the reliability of various methods to extract dissolved organic matter (DOM) from UK freshwaters.

Time Range

2018-2019

Freshness

Metadata was last updated in March 2026, but the underlying data covers 2018-2019.

Geography

United Kingdom (UK freshwaters)