ba9ecad2-1740-41e6-8f73-b308340d49fe 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 2025-11-13T16:22:29 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Meteorological and soil data from Whim Bog, Scotland, UK, 2003–2023 2025-08-26 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/ba9ecad2-1740-41e6-8f73-b308340d49fe 10.5285/ba9ecad2-1740-41e6-8f73-b308340d49fe doi: Leeson, S.R., Deshpande, A.G., Levy, P.E., Harvey, D., van Dijk, N., Sheppard, L.J., Leith, I.D., Crossley, A., Jones, M.R. (2025). Meteorological and soil data from Whim Bog, Scotland, UK, 2003–2023. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/ba9ecad2-1740-41e6-8f73-b308340d49fe This dataset contains information about meteorological conditions, soil parameters and water table depth at Whim Bog, an ombrotrophic heather-dominated bog near Edinburgh, Scotland. Meteorological measurements were recorded at a height of 2 m above the bog on a meteorological mast which is a part of a peatland nitrogen pollution experiment established in 2002. The measurements are recorded using a wide range of automatic sensors recording continuous meteorological data reported in this dataset at 15-minute intervals. This dataset relates to measurements taken from 2003 till 2023. This long-term dataset provides a comprehensive outlook of meteorological conditions in southern Scotland over the past two decades and can help identify changing climatic trends and anomalies. The work was supported by UKCEH National Capability for UK Challenges Programme NE/Y006208/1. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/ba9ecad2-1740-41e6-8f73-b308340d49fe Deshpande, A.G. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2095-1271 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 pointOfContact Leeson, S.R. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0009-0001-3132-3473 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 Deshpande, A.G. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2095-1271 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 Levy, P.E. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8505-1901 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 Harvey, D. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author van Dijk, N. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Sheppard, L.J. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Leith, I.D. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Crossley, A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Jones, M.R. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk owner NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Meteorological geographical features theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Climate and climate change meteorology Scotland climate and climate change peatland bog NC-UK soil water table 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: Leeson, S.R., Deshpande, A.G., Levy, P.E., Harvey, D., van Dijk, N., Sheppard, L.J., Leith, I.D., Crossley, A., Jones, M.R. (2025). Meteorological and soil data from Whim Bog, Scotland, UK, 2003–2023. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/ba9ecad2-1740-41e6-8f73-b308340d49fe textTable English utf8 climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere 2002-01-01 2023-12-13 -3.273 -3.27 55.765 55.766 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/ba9ecad2-1740-41e6-8f73-b308340d49fe Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/ba9ecad2-1740-41e6-8f73-b308340d49fe.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 Meteorological parameters such as air temperature, relative humidity, rainfall, leaf wetness, wind speed, wind direction, net radiation, total solar radiation and photosynthetically active radiation were measured above the bog. Additionally, soil moisture, temperature and water table depth were measured. All instruments measured data every 20 seconds and the average was calculated over 15-minute intervals by a data logger. The data was checked visually, and any obvious errors introduced by instrument malfunctioning, datalogger programming issues and power cuts were removed. Some gaps were also introduced during the time taken to replace faulty sensors or restore power to the sensors.