Datasets
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Reservoir Flood Extents - Wet Day (National)
This data shows the individual flood extents for all large raised reservoirs in the event that they were to fail and release the water held on a “wet day” when local rivers had... -
Reservoir Flood Extents - Fluvial Contribution (National)
This data shows the extent of river flooding added to the reservoir model to determine the impacts of failure on a wet-day. It is not exactly the same as the flooding from... -
Reservoir Flood Extents - Dry Day (National)
This data shows the individual flood extents for all large raised reservoirs in the event that they were to fail and release the water held on a “dry day” when local rivers are... -
Reservoir Flood Extents (Individual)
The data consists of separate packages of data for each large raised reservoir showing the flood extents for two scenarios; a “dry-day” and “wet-day”. The dry day scenario shows... -
Report an environmental problem - performance metrics
This page provides data on the performance of the Report an environmental problem service. This is a public service on GOV.UK where the public can report water pollution and... -
Public Attitudes Tracker
This release provides headline findings from the Public Attitudes Tracker (PAT). The first Wave was carried out in March 2012. The survey runs three times a year with a subset... -
Monthly analysis of the cellulose and distilled moss water isotope...
The dataset contains a key to species and locations of moss samples and water samples collected along with relative water contents for moss samples. The stable carbon (13C/12C)... -
Flower-insect timed count data from the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme, 2017-2021
This dataset contains information on the location of the count, some environmental variables, and the number of insects of each type counted for the Flower-Insect Timed Count... -
Grain size distributions in saltmarsh soil samples from UK saltmarshes...
The dataset details the grain size distributions of 459 subsamples from 18 soil cores collected from across 14 UK saltmarshes between 2018 and 2021. The work was carried out... -
Land Cover Map 1990 (1km dominant target class, N. Ireland)
This dataset consists of the 1km raster, dominant target class version of the Land Cover Map 1990 (LCM1990) for Northern Ireland. The 1km dominant coverage product is based on... -
Zooplankton taxa abundance from Windermere North Basin and Esthwaite Water,...
This dataset contains zooplankton taxa density sampled fortnightly from Windermere North Basin and Esthwaite Water in Cumbria, England. All data are from January 2005 to... -
Modelled Miscanthus yield and soil carbon change data for the tropics...
This dataset contains potential yields of Miscanthus and changes to soil carbon storage resulting from Miscanthus cultivation. The purpose of this study was to evaluate and... -
Ranked current and anticipated threats to Scotland from global Phytophthora species
This dataset is a ranked list of risks to Scotland from 196 Phytophthora species, including most of the approximately 240 formally described or provisionally named species in... -
Soil, site and tree characteristics for acute oak decline (AOD) symptomatic...
This dataset contains information on tree, site and soil properties from three oak woodland sites in southern England: Writtle Forest, Monks Wood, and Stratfield Brake. Data... -
210Pb-dated historical lake sediment metal concentrations from Norfolk, UK...
Measurements of sediment properties (including organic and carbonate content), radionuclides (210Pb, 137Cs, 241Am) and elements (including mercury, nickel, copper, zinc, and... -
Modelled and projected daily channel discharge, depth and water chemistry...
Water quality modelled outputs for daily channel discharge and depth, nitrate-N, ammonium-N, suspended sediment concentration, total phosphorus, and soluble reactive phosphorus... -
United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: species trends 2023
This dataset provides linear trends, over varying time periods, for the Collated Indices of individual butterfly species across the UK. The main statistical values derived from... -
National-scale geodatabase of catchment characteristics in the Philippines
This dataset contains a national-scale geodatabase of stream network and river catchment characteristics in the Philippines. It presents detailed information on 128 medium- to... -
The percentage of total pasture land, by country, subject to water scarcity...
This dataset contains the percentage of the total pasture area in each country classified as vulnerable to water scarcity (annual run-off is declining and the water shed is... -
Photosynthetic pigments in water samples from 20 lochs in Scotland, May-June 2022
This dataset describes the concentrations of photosynthetic pigments (Chlorophylls, carotenoids and phycocyanin) measured by HPLC and spectrophotometry in water samples of 20... -
Water chemistry data and elemental content of dissolved organic matter...
The data contains site characteristics (water body type, elevation, catchment area) and water chemistry data (pH, dissolved and particulate organic carbon concentrations (DOC... -
Soil erosion potential from the Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) for the...
Erosion risk mapping showing soil erosion potential (tonnes/yr) using the Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) for the Yorkshire River Derwent, UK. The modelled data includes 29... -
Monthly atmospheric ammonia gas concentration data from Northern Ireland...
This dataset is from the Northern Ireland (NI) ALPHA® Ammonia Monitoring network, and consists of monthly concentrations of atmospheric ammonia (NH3) gas measured with the UKCEH... -
Litterfall ant genus and abundance in a fertiliser experiment area in...
Data are presented showing litterfall ant species and abundance from a plot based fertilisation experiment. The experiment was carried out at the Biological Dynamics of Forest... -
Potential evapotranspiration derived from HadUK-Grid 1km gridded climate...
[THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. Gridded potential evapotranspiration calculated from HadUK-Grid gridded observed meteorological data at 1 km resolution over the United... -
Modelled ozone flux for the grassland growing season in the UK and USA in 2018
This dataset consists of a vector layer (based on 1 by 1degree grid), of modelled ozone flux (POD1IAM, mmol m-2), The values per grid cell are Phytotoxic Ozone Dose above a... -
Temporal and geographic distribution of multidrug-resistant human bacterial...
This dataset contains information relating to the temporal and geographic distribution of clinically relevant bacterial pathogens on waste materials (plastics, fabrics,... -
European Monitoring and Evaluation Program Model for the UK (EMEP4UK) daily...
This dataset is a model output from the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP) model applied to the UK (EMEP4UK) driven by Weather and Research Forecast model... -
United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: phenology 2019
This dataset provides data on the timing of butterfly flight periods for each UK butterfly species across all monitored sites in the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS).... -
Soil chemical and physical properties from inorganic fertiliser additions to...
The data consist of soil physicochemical and biological data for three soil depths (0-15, 15-30 and 30-60 cm) from a three-cut silage plot trial located at three grassland sites... -
Vegetation data from permanent sample plots established during a 2019 field...
This dataset contains tree species and associated measurements from an initial survey of 8 x 1 ha Permanent Sample Plots (PSP) and 2 x 1 ha biomass measurement plots established... -
UK maps representing baseline uncertainty in CO2 and CH4 fluxes
This dataset provides UK maps of baseline prior uncertainty (UQ) in fluxes of Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) carbon dioxide, CO2 (2014-15) and methane, CH4 (2015). Spatial maps of... -
Fire emissions data before and after peatland restoration, Indonesia, 2004-2015
This dataset contains fire emissions from Equatorial Asia for the years 2004, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2014 and 2015. The data is based on the Fire Inventory from National Center for... -
Plynlimon research catchment hydrochemistry (2016-2019)
This dataset includes stream and rainfall hydrochemistry of the Plynlimon research catchments in Mid Wales. The data cover the period from March 2016 to March 2019. Sampling was... -
Net ecosystem carbon dioxide (CO2) exchange and meteorological observations...
This dataset contains time series observations of land surface-atmosphere net ecosystem carbon dioxide exchange (NEE) and supporting micrometeorological observations collected... -
Ground beetle (Carabidae) associations with UK Land Cover Map habitats
The data are the habitat association (phi coefficient of association) of ground beetles (Carabidae) in Great Britain. The analysis used all 100 m carabid records from the NBN... -
Diatom taxon abundances at river sites in the Cordillera Blanca region of...
[This dataset is embargoed until July 1, 2026]. This dataset provides diatom taxon abundance data from 11 rivers in the Cordillera Blanca region of the Peruvian Andes. Benthic... -
Physicochemical data of glacier rivers in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, 2019-2020
This dataset includes measured physicochemical variables in ten rivers of the glacial valleys of Parón, Huaytapallana and Llanganuco in the Cordillera Blanca, Ancash, Peru. The... -
Management data and antibiotic resistant E. coli detection in pre-weaned...
This dataset consists of faecally-contaminated samples taken from the environment around pre-weaned calves on 51 farms in South-West England during 2017/2018 and is a subset of... -
United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: species trends 2024
This dataset provides linear trends, over varying time periods, for the Collated Indices of individual butterfly species across the UK. The main statistical values derived from... -
Plant species cover and carabid beetle species counts, 2018, and bird...
Plant and carabid beetle survey data was collected in the summer of 2018 and bird survey data in the summer of 2019 in Glen Affric and Glen Moriston in the Scottish Highlands.... -
Macroinvertebrate sampling in the River Beas, India, 2017
Data comprise the number of macro-invertebrate taxa (including family and group name) recorded at four sites on the River Beas in November 2017. Data were generated from kick-... -
Ammonia measurements from a passive sampler at Ballynahone Bog field site,...
This dataset consists of ammonia (NH3) measurements from a set of ALPHA (Adapted Low-cost Passive High Absorption) sampler sites at Ballynahone National Nature Reserve, a... -
Land Cover Map 1990 (25m raster, GB) v2
This dataset consists of the 25m raster version of the Land Cover Map 1990 (LCM1990) for Great Britain. The 25m raster product consists of three bands: Band 1 - raster... -
Flammability metrics from cone calorimetry for common wildfire fuels sampled...
This dataset contains flammability metrics for fuel types that are commonly involved in wildfires in the UK. Flammability data were obtained by cone calorimetry, and include... -
Extent and tree species composition from a Scottish deciduous woodland...
A survey of the extent and species composition of the deciduous woodlands of Scotland (including those with some admixture of conifers) was undertaken between 1976 and 1979, by... -
Modelled arable area, net primary productivity, runoff, irrigation demand...
The dataset contains model output from the land surface model JULES and the econometric agricultural land use model ECO-AG, at kilometre scale resolution over Great Britain for... -
Topsoil physico-chemical properties from the UKCEH Countryside Survey, Great...
This dataset consists of measurements of topsoil (0-15 cm) physico-chemical properties from soils sampled from the first 106 1-km squares across Great Britain in 2018 and 2019... -
National Plant Monitoring Scheme survey data (2015-2019)
This data resource provides plot-level plant occurrence data for the first five years (2015-2019) of the National Plant Monitoring Scheme (covering the UK, the Channel Islands,... -
Oil palm frond litter decomposition rates in Biodiversity and Ecosystem...
Data comprise weight (grams) of dried oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) frond litter remaining in a variety of litter bags after 10, 30, 60 and 90 days buried under the litter layer...