Water quality of urban surface freshwater in Kolkata, India, June 2018 to December 2019

This dataset comprises field sensor physicochemical and optical/fluorescence measurements, as well as laboratory microbiological and chemical analysis, for urban surface water samples. Samples were collected at different locations throughout the urban area of Kolkata, with the latitude and longitude of all sample location provided within the spreadsheets. Samples/data were collected across three separate field surveys undertaken in June 2018 (file 1), March 2019 (file 2) and December 2019 (file 3). This dataset forms a case study of the water quality of three different types of urban surface freshwaters within the city of Kolkata, India. This case study was created to deploy a prototype multichannel fluorimeter and assess its ability to identify waters with a high bacterial load and biological contamination events through the use of Peak T fluorescence. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/9bc3dce7-7c2b-49dd-9b76-819267d7a352

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Metadata Language: English (en)

Character set: utf8

Dataset Reference Date (): 2022-06-10

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/9bc3dce7-7c2b-49dd-9b76-819267d7a352

Identifier: doi: / 10.5285/9bc3dce7-7c2b-49dd-9b76-819267d7a352

Other citation details: Fox, B.G., Thorn, R.M.S., Dutta, T.K., Reynolds, D.M. (2022). Water quality of urban surface freshwater in Kolkata, India, June 2018 to December 2019. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/9bc3dce7-7c2b-49dd-9b76-819267d7a352

University of the West of England - Fox, B.G.

University of the West of England - Thorn, R.M.S.

Bose Institute - Dutta, T.K.

University of the West of England - Reynolds, D.M.

University of the West of England - Dr. Bethany Fox

NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

University of the West of England

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()

Environmental Monitoring Facilities

Keywords

Water quality
Freshwater
Urban water
Surface waters
Canal
River Ganges
Wetland
Flourenscence
Flourescent
Dissolved organic matter
Aquatic
India
Kolkata
Sensing
in-situ sensing
real-time monitoring
Biological contamination
E. Coli
Physioochemical

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Other constraints: If you reuse this data, you should cite: Fox, B.G., Thorn, R.M.S., Dutta, T.K., Reynolds, D.M. (2022). Water quality of urban surface freshwater in Kolkata, India, June 2018 to December 2019. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/9bc3dce7-7c2b-49dd-9b76-819267d7a352

Spatial representation type: textTable

Distance: 100 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

Topic category

Inland waters

Begin date: 2018-06-01

End date: 2019-12-31

Code: WGS 84

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Dataset Reference Date (): 2010-12-08

Statement: Some of the data was collected in the field at the sampling locations, whilst other analysis was conducted on samples collected at the sampling time. Field equipment was calibrated as necessary, with handheld meters being calibrated with the correct reagents weekly. The fluorimeters were calibrated before the field surveys by the manufacturer and checks were carried out before each sampling day to ensure baseline values were as expected (0 QSU or 0 FNU in DI water). Data here is provided as an average with a standard deviation to represent 1 minute (n =-60) of sampling time. The survey conducted in December 2019 provides fluorescence data as a single value due to errors in data logging. Microbiological analysis was conducted within 6 hours of the sample collection, whilst some of the nutrient analysis was conducted up to 3 weeks after samples were collected in India. These were analysed in the UK but standard preparation, storage and transportation procedures were followed.

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File identifier: 9bc3dce7-7c2b-49dd-9b76-819267d7a352 XML

Metadata Language: English (en)

Character set: ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1)

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Hierarchy level name: dataset

Metadata Date: 2022-06-14T07:07:35

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

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Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg , Lancaster , LA1 4AP , UK

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