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Sulphur and nitrogen atmospheric Concentration Based Estimated Deposition (CBED) data for the UK, 2018-2020
[THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. This dataset provides Concentration Based Estimated Deposition (CBED) values of sulphur and nitrogen atmospheric deposition for 1x1 kilometres (km) grid squares of the UK averaged over the years 2018 to 2020. The data consist of deposition values for sulphur, oxidised nitrogen and reduced nitrogen, and base cations. Total deposition is the sum of four components calculated separately: wet deposition, dry deposition of gases, dry deposition of particulate matter and cloud droplet deposition. Habitat-specific data are provided for (i) moorland/short vegetation everywhere, and (ii) forest everywhere. Additionally, the grid square average over multiple land cover types (i.e. arable, grassland, forest, moorland, urban) is also calculated. The habitat-specific data are recommended for use with critical loads for the calculation of critical load exceedances. The work in generating and compiling the dataset has been funded by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) and various Departments for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) contracts. Full details about this dataset can be found at
https://doi.org/10.5285/4a5a9140-96f1-4aee-b547-ef570238fdbd
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- Date (Publication)
- 2022-08-25
- Date (Creation)
- 2022-07-19
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- doi: / 10.5285/4a5a9140-96f1-4aee-b547-ef570238fdbd
- Other citation details
- Levy, P.E., Martin Hernandez, C., Smith, R.I., Vieno, M., Tomlinson, S.J., Tang, Y.S., Stedman, J.R. (2022). Sulphur and nitrogen atmospheric Concentration Based Estimated Deposition (CBED) data for the UK, 2018-2020. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/4a5a9140-96f1-4aee-b547-ef570238fdbd
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- © Crown copyright and database right
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- If you reuse this data, you should cite: Levy, P.E., Martin Hernandez, C., Smith, R.I., Vieno, M., Tomlinson, S.J., Tang, Y.S., Stedman, J.R. (2022). Sulphur and nitrogen atmospheric Concentration Based Estimated Deposition (CBED) data for the UK, 2018-2020. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/4a5a9140-96f1-4aee-b547-ef570238fdbd
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- 10 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
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- Environment
- Begin date
- 2018-01-01
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- 2020-12-31
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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- The Concentration Based Estimated Deposition (CBED) methodology generates maps of wet and dry deposition of sulphur, oxidised and reduced nitrogen, and base cations from measured concentrations of gases and particulate matter in air and measured concentrations of ions in precipitation. These data are collected at sites in the UK Eutrophying and Acidifying Pollutants (UKEAP) network. The site-based measurements are first interpolated to generate maps of concentrations for the UK. The ion concentrations in precipitation are combined with an annual precipitation map from the UK Meteorological Office to generate values of wet deposition. Gas and particulate matter concentration maps are combined with spatially distributed estimates of habitat-specific deposition velocities to generate dry deposition for 5 land cover categories: forest, moorland, grassland, arable and urban. The deposition to the 5 land cover categories are combined, depending on the relative proportions of different land cover categories in the grid square, to generate values for grid square averaged deposition. Dry deposition includes deposition of gases (Sulphur Dioxide (SO2), Nitric Acid (HNO3), Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) and Ammonia (NH3) and particulate matter (sulphate, nitrate, ammonium, calcium and magnesium) to vegetation. For critical load exceedance calculations, deposition values for moorland are applied to all non-woodland habitats, and deposition values for forest are applied to all woodland habitats. Data processing was done using the R programme and results output as CSV files. These were then transformed in a suitable format for ingestion into the Environmental Information Data Centre.
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- 4a5a9140-96f1-4aee-b547-ef570238fdbd XML
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- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13T16:27:45
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
Point of contact
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg
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https://eidc.ac.uk/
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