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2025-09-12

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2025-09-10

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https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/34df941d-abb8-4171-9c9d-33202e5a2ea5

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doi: / 10.5285/34df941d-abb8-4171-9c9d-33202e5a2ea5

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Kerr, N.R., Quincey, D., Fell, S.C., Medina, K., Loarte, E., Brown, L.E. (2025). Physical and environmental measurements from river sites in the Cordillera Vilcanota and Cordillera Blanca ranges of the Peruvian Andes, 2019-2020. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/34df941d-abb8-4171-9c9d-33202e5a2ea5

GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3

• river
• glacier

Keywords

• Climate and climate change
• Water quality
• alpine

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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Kerr, N.R., Quincey, D., Fell, S.C., Medina, K., Loarte, E., Brown, L.E. (2025). Physical and environmental measurements from river sites in the Cordillera Vilcanota and Cordillera Blanca ranges of the Peruvian Andes, 2019-2020. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/34df941d-abb8-4171-9c9d-33202e5a2ea5

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Topic category

• Inland waters

Begin date

2019-09-11

End date

2020-05-16

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WGS 84

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At each site, measurements of water temperature, electrical conductivity (EC) and pH were taken in Vilcanota using a Hach (Loveland, CO, USA) HQ40D probe, and in Blanca a Xylem (Washington D.C., USA) Multi 3630 multiparameter probe was used. Turbidity was measured with a Cole-Parmer (Vernon Hills, IL, USA) Oakton T-100 turbidity probe. Channel stability was determined using the “channel bottom” component of the Pfankuch Index (Pfankuch, 1975), and then calculating the inverse of this score so that higher scores represented more stable river beds. Water samples were collected by filtering 100 mL of river water through a 0.45 micron filter to determine total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphorus (TP) (Skalar (Breda, Netherlands) San++ automatic wet chemistry analyser) and dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) (Analytik Jena (Jena, Germany) Multi NC2100 micro elemental analyser). Within each region, all measurements were collected by the same person. Pfankuch Index was calculated by the same person to ensure consistency in qualitative analysis.

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2025-12-05T13:40:30

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