Integrated Hydrological Units of the United Kingdom: Groups

This dataset is part of Integrated Hydrological Units (IHU) of the UK, a set of geographical reference units for hydrological purposes including river flow measurement and hydrometric data collection. Groups represent the intermediate units of IHU in terms of spatial resolution. The most common size of a group is around 400 square kilometres. Each Group carries a name constructed from names of the major river flowing through the Group, the major river flowing into the Group, the major river into which the Group flows, and sometimes also from local county names. Each Group consists of one or more Section and Groups can be combined to form Hydrometric Areas without Coastline. Identifiers and attributes have been calculated so that direct upstream and direct downstream IHU units can be selected. This layer currently covers Great Britain only as no dataset with river geometries and names with suitable detail is available for Northern Ireland. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/f1cd5e33-2633-4304-bbc2-b8d34711d902

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Metadata Language: English (en)

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Dataset Reference Date (): 2015-02-03

Dataset Reference Date (): 2014-08-20

Identifier: CEH:EIDC: / 1425380901992

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/f1cd5e33-2633-4304-bbc2-b8d34711d902

Identifier: doi: / 10.5285/f1cd5e33-2633-4304-bbc2-b8d34711d902

Other citation details: Kral, F., Fry, M., Dixon, H. (2015). Integrated Hydrological Units of the United Kingdom: Groups. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/f1cd5e33-2633-4304-bbc2-b8d34711d902

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Matt Fry

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Kral, F.

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Fry, M.

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Dixon, H.

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Hydrology
catchment
watershed
hydrology
Great Britain

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Other constraints: If you reuse this data, you should cite: Kral, F., Fry, M., Dixon, H. (2015). Integrated Hydrological Units of the United Kingdom: Groups. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/f1cd5e33-2633-4304-bbc2-b8d34711d902

Spatial representation type: vector

Topic category

Inland waters

Begin date: 2014-08-20

Code: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

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Dataset Reference Date (): 2010-12-08

Statement: The main inputs for development of Integrated Hydrological Units (IHU) of the UK were data held by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Specifically, the cumulative catchment area raster and outflow raster from the Integrated Hydrological Digital Terrain Model (IHDTM) [1]. The vast majority of the watercourse names come from the subset of CEH UK river centreline network enriched by names from Ordnance Survey 1:50K Gazetteer [2]. Some names were obtained from or verified using other readily available sources like OpenStreetMap (openstreetmap.org) and WikiPedia (wikipedia.org). Bespoke FORTRAN functions, part of the CEH Flood Estimation Handbook code set, were used for catchment delineation. These functions enable sensible interlocking catchments boundaries to be created for the whole IHDTM surface. The option that does not leave gaps between catchments was specified [1]. Except for the catchment delineation, ArcGIS was used as the main GIS platform. Custom Python code was developed to drive the whole process and to perform hierarchical and network tasks. The full name of each IHU Section was derived from three rivers defining the section: the largest (in terms of cumulative catchment area) inflowing river other than the main river in the Section, the main river in the Section, and the largest river flowing into the downstream Section. If no such inflows exist, words 'Source', 'Sea', or the name of the main river in the downstream Section are used as appropriate. A similar approach was adopted for IHU Group names, although group names were edited manually to a great extent to ensure they are simple and readily understood.

[1] Morris, D.G. and Flavin, R.W. 1990. A Digital Terrain Model for Hydrology. Proc 4th Int. Symposium on Spatial Data Handling. Zurich, 1, 250-262.

[2] Moore R V, Morris D G and Flavin R W, 1994. Sub-set of UK digital 1:50,000 scale river centreline network. NERC, Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford.

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Metadata Date: 2022-05-06T10:01:50

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

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