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Hydrological Open Data

Summary

Hydrological data is available from around 7,000 stations across England. This includes river flow, river level, groundwater and rainfall. Data consists of high resolution data (mainly 15 min) as well as daily data. All the data is EA owned and available as open data. The data comes from both our internal archive (WISKI) as well as real-time updates from telemetry: River flow (m3s-1): A) real time: updates from telemetry for stations in Wessex and Devon and Cornwall. B) daily: updates of daily mean values from WISKI C) monthly: updates of 15 min data, day max and day min from WISKI River level (m): A) real time: updates from telemetry. B) monthly: updates of 15 min data, day max and day min from WISKI Rainfall (mm): A) real time: updates from telemetry. B) daily: updates of daily totals values from WISKI C) monthly: updates of 15 min data from WISKI Groundwater (mAOD): A) real time: updates from telemetry for some stations B) weekly: updates of dipped data from WISKI C) monthly: updates of high-resolution data from WISKI Note that data is recorded in GMT and therefore during British Summer Time (BST) data may appear to be an hour old. Data comes from a network of stations across England and is subject to quality control procedures. As a result values on this website are subject to change after publication.

Categories

Use limitation statement

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Attribution statement

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved.

Technical information

Update frequency

daily

Lineage

Data is collected from Environment Agency owned infrastructure and quality checked by Environment Agency hydrometry and telemetry teams. There are several ways to collect river flow data, more information can be found here https://nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/hydrometry-uk.

Spatial information

Geographic extent

  • Latitude from: 49.943 to 55.816
  • Longitude from: -6.236 to 2.072
Metadata information

Language

English

Metadata identifier

4da28d02-8997-4b0f-9d83-3c5d958a1c65


Published by

Environment Agency

Contact publisher

Defra Data Services Forum

Dataset reference dates

Creation date

N/A

Revision date

N/A

Publication date

20 February 2023

Period

  • From: 01 January 1958
  • To: 28 March 2023

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