0d5c7e45-2c43-4276-af0d-8d941db2e124 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:26:37 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Spot gauged flows on the lower River Frome, Dorset, April-November 2022 2023-08-01 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/0d5c7e45-2c43-4276-af0d-8d941db2e124 10.5285/0d5c7e45-2c43-4276-af0d-8d941db2e124 doi: Homan, T., Hofman, J. (2023). Spot gauged flows on the lower River Frome, Dorset, April-November 2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/0d5c7e45-2c43-4276-af0d-8d941db2e124 This is a dataset of spot gauged river flows (m3 s-1) at multiple sites along the River Frome, Dorset, UK, conducted during the year 2022. All sites are contained within the stretch of river between the Environment Agency gauging stations located at Dorchester and East Stoke, i.e. the lower part of the River Frome. The monitoring sites included the major tributaries along this river reach, which are: the South Winterbourne, Tadnoll Brook, and the River Win. In total, 19 river channels were spot gauged at 11 river cross-sectional locations. Due to the braided nature of the river, some locations required multiple channels to be measured to produce a total cross-sectional flow for that part of the river. The river cross-sectional locations were evenly spaced, approximately every 3 km along the river reach. Measurements were taken on multiple flow accretion survey days between 12/04/2022 and 05/11/2022. On each day, as many of the sites were spot gauged as possible, working upstream to downstream. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/0d5c7e45-2c43-4276-af0d-8d941db2e124 Homan, T. University of Bath th502@bath.ac.uk pointOfContact Homan, T. University of Bath th502@bath.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1664-2849 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Hofman, J. University of Bath jamhh20@bath.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5982-603X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher University of Bath EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication River Frome Dorset river flow river discharge spot gauging flow accretion Chalk stream otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Homan, T., Hofman, J. (2023). Spot gauged flows on the lower River Frome, Dorset, April-November 2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/0d5c7e45-2c43-4276-af0d-8d941db2e124 textTable 1 English utf8 environment 2022-04-12 2022-11-05 -2.42 -2.16 50.64 50.74 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/0d5c7e45-2c43-4276-af0d-8d941db2e124 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/0d5c7e45-2c43-4276-af0d-8d941db2e124.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Measurements were taken by dividing the river channel into at least 10 equally spaced transects, with the depth and flow velocity recorded at each vertical transect. For small streams (< 3 m width), 5-10 transects were used. The flow velocity was recorded at a depth of 40% above the riverbed. The cross-sectional area for each transect was determined by multiplying the width of the transect by the average depth of the two adjacent vertical transects. This was then multiplied by the average velocity of the two adjacent vertical transects to get discharge for each transect. The sum of all transects provided total stream discharge. To conduct the measurements, a Valeport mechanical flow meter was used. Flows are reported as m3 s-1. Due to time constraints only one flow recording could be taken at each site, on each survey date, i.e. no replicates.