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Hydrological monitoring data from Coalburn catchment, Northern England, 1967-2022
Hydrological monitoring data for 55 years from 1967 to 2022 for the Coalburn catchment (1.5 km2). The catchment is located in Northern England within Kielder forest, Northumberland, and is the longest running forest research catchment in the UK. In 1972/73 the upland grassland was ploughed and planted with a conifer forest. The trees are now mature and around 30% of the catchment has been felled. From 1967 to 1993 a mixture of hourly and daily data is available and from 1993 onwards all the data
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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- precipitation · discharge · potential evapotranspiration · other meteorological data · snow depths
- Coverage docs-verified
- Coalburn catchment (1.5 km2), Kielder forest, Northumberland, Northern England · 1967-01-01 to 2022-12-31
- Resolution docs-verified
- Temporal: hourly from 1993 onwards; mixed hourly and daily data for 1967-1993. No spatial resolution is tied to the data variables in the docs.
- Formats docs-verified
- CSV · PNG · JPG · GeoPackage · TIFF
- Access docs-verified
- Open Government Licence; free download of the whole dataset as a zip package from the NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre (no authentication indicated)
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Forest effects on river flow analysis for upland catchments using hourly precipitation and discharge (1993 onwards) · Calibration and validation of hydrological models with long-run precipitation, PET and discharge records · Assessing runoff response to forest felling and planting change as baseline evidence
- Audience llm-inferred
- hydrologists · flood risk consultants · water resources engineers · forestry and land management consultants
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Pre-1993 data mixes hourly and daily resolution · Catchment land cover changed (ploughed and planted 1972/73, about 30% now felled), which affects comparability over time · Early precipitation network reduced from 13 gauges to 4 in 1972; tipping bucket gauge only from 1992 · Weir replaced in 1991; discharge data before 1991 can be poor or missing · Automatic weather station has many gaps; infilled from Eskdalemuir, 45 km away
- Licence
- 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)