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Water Temperature Projections for England's Rivers
Monthly water temperature projections for English rivers under the high-emissions "business as usual" RCP 8.5 (Representative Concentration Pathways) scenario. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
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Evidence quality: 40
Listed in data.gov.uk public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).
Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z
What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- monthly water temperature projections for English rivers (RCP 8.5 high-emissions scenario) · per-site projection files (AllSites and IndividualSites ZIP archives)
- Coverage docs-verified
- England
- Resolution docs-verified
- Monthly temporal resolution; spatial resolution not stated (data supplied per site)
- Update frequency docs-verified
- As needed (no fixed schedule)
- Formats docs-verified
- ZIP
- Access docs-verified
- Free and open: no public access constraints; Open Government Licence v3.0
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Future river temperature inputs for ecological or fisheries risk screening of English river reaches · Climate change sensitivity context for WFD or river temperature assessments in planning or permitting · Thermal impact assessment of discharges against projected future river temperatures
- Audience llm-inferred
- environmental consultants · ecologists · hydrologists · water quality specialists · planners
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Only the RCP 8.5 high-emissions scenario is listed in the docs · Projection time span and model details are not stated in the docs · Spatial resolution and site coverage are not stated beyond per-site file names · Delivered as ZIP archives; no API or streaming access · No fixed update schedule (as needed) · Entry licence field is malformed and truncated; verify licence on data.gov.uk · Attribution statement required: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025
Evidence
- https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=c08950fd-d212-45be-a3a2-a7c367cc1880&fileName=English_Tw_Projections_AllSites.zip
- https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/4d6e4130-924b-462e-a3c9-2018b740aff7/water-temperature-projections-for-englands-rivers
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