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Historic droughts: hydro-meteorological data outputs
This record links data outputs of the NERC Historic Droughts project. The datasets comprise reconstructed hydro-meteorological time series of potential evapotranspiration (PET), river flow and ground water levels from the 1890s to 2015 for the UK. It also includes a number of drought indicators derived from these hydro-meteorological parameters: Standardised Precipitation Index (SPI), Standardised Streamflow Index (SSI) and Standardised Groundwater level Index (SGI). Other data outputs of Histor
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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- potential evapotranspiration (PET), gridded UK · daily river flow, 303 UK catchments · monthly groundwater levels, 54 UK boreholes · Standardised Precipitation Index (SPI), gridded UK and IHU areas · Standardised Streamflow Index (SSI), 303 catchments · Standardised Groundwater level Index (SGI), 54 boreholes · inventory of reservoirs (90% of UK storage) · simulated monthly biological indicators, England and Wales 1964-2012
- Coverage docs-verified
- United Kingdom · 1890s to 2015 (gridded SPI from 1862)
- Resolution docs-verified
- Daily river flow for 303 catchments; monthly groundwater levels for 54 boreholes; gridded SPI and PET
- Access llm-inferred
- Non-Open Government Licence (per catalogue metadata); no authentication listed
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Long-run drought context (SPI, SSI, SGI) for water resources or drought risk assessments · Historic daily flow reconstructions for 303 UK catchments as input to low-flow analysis · Groundwater drought context from 54 UK borehole reconstructions for planning or FRA support
- Audience llm-inferred
- hydrologists · water resources engineers · flood consultants · environmental consultants · planners
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Historic precipitation and temperature data are archived elsewhere, not in this record · Groundwater coverage limited to 54 boreholes and flow to 303 catchments · Non-Open Government Licence: check terms before reuse · No update frequency or file formats stated in the record
- Licence
- Non-Open government licence
- Authentication
- Unknown — review source docs
- GitHub stars
- Unknown
- Last commit
- Unknown
- Last successful page check
- 16/10/2026
- Page health
- healthy
- Package
- Not recorded
- Verification
- Not independently verified
Provenance & evidence
Listed in ukceh-eidc public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).
Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · research sweep: sweep-2026-10-16 (ukceh-eidc)