Riverflow records in the UK are generally relatively short in length, many beginning in the late-1950s. Rainfall records, in contrast, are numerous with many extending back into the early decades of the 19th century. In the early 1980s, work began to extend riverflow records for a number of catchments using a simple rainfall-runoff model. The earliest work was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council and updated in the 1990s for the National Rivers Authority (NRA) and the Environment Agency (EA). Recent work has extended the reconstructions to 2002.
The latest updating of the reconstructed flow series was funded by the UK Environment Agency (Science Report SC040052/SR; EA Project Manager Dr Rob Wilby). The full Project Report is provided alongside the catchment precipitation and reconstructed flow series.
Catchment (abbreviation for filename) | Rainfall (mm) | Reconstructed flows (cumecs) | |
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1. | Wye to Redbrook (Wye) | 1865-2002 | 01/1865-12/2002 |
2. | Exe to Thorverton (Exe) | 1865-2002 | 01/1865-12/2002 |
3. | Eden to Temple Sowerby (Ed1) | 1865-2002 | 01/1865-12/2002 |
4. | Eden to Warwick Bridge (Ed2) | 1865-2002 | 01/1865-12/2002 |
5. | Tyne to Bywell (Tyn) | 1865-2002 | 01/1865-12/2002 |
6. | Tees to Broken Scar (Tee) | 1865-2002 | 01/1865-12/2002 |
7. | Wharfe to Addingham (Whf) | 1865-2002 | 01/1865-12/2002 |
8. | Wensum to Costessey Mill (Wns) | 1865-2002 | 01/1865-12/2002 |
9. | Thames to Eynsham (Thm) | 1865-2002 | 01/1865-12/2002 |
10. | Ely Ouse to Denver Complex (Ous) | 1865-2002 | 01/1865-12/2002 |
11. | Medway to Teston (Med) | 1850-2002 | 06/1850-12/2002 |
12. | Itchen to Highbridge/Allbrook (Ich) | 1850-2002 | 04/1851-12/2002 |
13. | Teifi to Glan Teifi (Tef) | 1855-2002 | 04/1855-12/2002 |
14. | Dee to Manley Hall/Erbistock (Dee) | 1858-2002 | 05/1858-12/2002 |
15. | Derwent to Derby/Longbridge (Der) | 1850-2002 | 10/1850-12/2002 |
These datasets are made available under the Open Database License. Any rights in individual contents of the datasets are licensed under the Database Contents License under the conditions of Attribution and Share-Alike.
Updated: January 2005