Climoor Fieldsite: Water Table Depth in Clocaenog Forest

Manual water table depth measurements were taken approximately every two weeks from May 2009 to January 2014 at the Climoor experimental field site. Data were collected using water-permeable tubes installed to bedrock in the Clocaenog Forest, north-east Wales, with readings taken via tape measure and head torch. This time-series provides a multi-year record of groundwater dynamics in a forested peatland ecosystem.

Use Cases

• Analyzing seasonal and inter-annual variability in groundwater levels based on bi-weekly manual measurements.
• Calibrating or validating hydrological models for peatland ecosystems using field-collected water table data.
• Investigating the relationship between precipitation events and water table response in a forested catchment.
• Assessing long-term trends in soil moisture and saturation as part of climate change impact studies.

Strengths

• Provides a consistent 4.5-year time series from May 2009 to January 2014.
• Measurements were taken using a standardized manual method (tape measure and permeable tubes) at a dedicated field site.
• Dataset is documented and accessible via a persistent DOI (10.5285/5ba28b53-6b20-4e31-9c0f-ba234ddc55ef).

Limitations

• Dataset is marked as withdrawn on all source platforms, indicating it may be deprecated, superseded, or unavailable for download.
• Key metadata such as row count, file format, specific column names, and license are not provided in the available sources.
• Data collection ended in 2014, so the record is not current.

Provenance

Source

Environmental Information Data Centre

Collection Method

Manual measurements via water-permeable tubes installed to bedrock, using a tape measure and head torch.

Time Range

May 2009 to January 2014

Freshness

Last platform update recorded as 2026-03-11, but the dataset itself is withdrawn and its temporal coverage ends in 2014.

Geography

Climoor fieldsite in the Clocaenog Forest, north-east Wales, UK