c4c2c5ae-d926-4ee0-b069-6479ecab2787 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 2025-11-13T16:19:38 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Source Attribution - deposition of nitrogen and sulphur to UK protected sites 2017-06-13 publication 2017-03-01 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/c4c2c5ae-d926-4ee0-b069-6479ecab2787 10.5285/c4c2c5ae-d926-4ee0-b069-6479ecab2787 doi: Bealey, W.J., Dore, A.J. (2017). Source Attribution - deposition of nitrogen and sulphur to UK protected sites. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/c4c2c5ae-d926-4ee0-b069-6479ecab2787 This dataset contains source attribution data for nitrogen and sulphur deposition across the UK. The FRAME (Fine Resolution Atmospheric Multi-Pollutant Exchange) atmospheric dispersion model, using emission data from 2012 was used to provide 90 source footprints of nitrogen and sulphur deposition across the UK on a 5 x 5 km grid. A minimum, maximum and gridded average deposition value has been provided for the following protected sites throughout the UK: (i) Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) (ii) Special Protection Areas (SPA) (iii) Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). The pollutants are further split into both wet and dry deposition, as well as local and long-range sources. Habitat-specific data are provided for (i) forest, (i) moorland (short semi-natural vegetation), and (iii) grid average (average of arable, grassland, urban, forest and moorland land cover types) forest everywhere. The work in generating and compiling this dataset has been funded by the UK pollution and conservation agencies: Natural Resource Wales (NRW), the Environment Agency, Northern Ireland Environment Agency, Natural England, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), Scotland and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research (SNIFFER), the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), and Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/c4c2c5ae-d926-4ee0-b069-6479ecab2787 Bealey, W.J. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3708-5864 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 Dore, A.J. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Bealey, W.J. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3708-5864 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 Protected Sites theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication atmospheric pollution acid deposition GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Pollution source attribution nitrogen deposition otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Natural Resources Wales, Environment Agency, the Northern Ireland Environment Agency, Natural England, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), Scotland and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research (SNIFFER), the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Bealey, W.J., Dore, A.J. (2017). Source Attribution - deposition of nitrogen and sulphur to UK protected sites. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/c4c2c5ae-d926-4ee0-b069-6479ecab2787 textTable 5000 English utf8 environment climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere -8.648 1.768 49.864 60.861 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/c4c2c5ae-d926-4ee0-b069-6479ecab2787/ Download the data Download a copy of this data fileAccess https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/c4c2c5ae-d926-4ee0-b069-6479ecab2787.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 The Air Pollution Information System (APIS), through the 'Site Relevant Critical Loads' tool, provides critical loads and critical levels for designated features within every SAC, SPA or A/SSSI in the UK. Deposition and concentration data for nitrogen and sulphur pollutants are provided at each site to give an estimate of critical load/level exceedance. In addition, pollutant deposition for nitrogen and acidity have been modelled for the emission year 2012 to provide source apportioned statistics at each site. The FRAME (Fine Resolution Multi-pollutant Exchange) model was used to assess the long-term annual mean deposition of reduced and oxidised nitrogen and sulphur over the United Kingdom. Emissions of Sulphur and Nitrogen for input into the model were split into 160 different sub-sectoral emission categories. This included 22 individual point sources and background 'area' emissions of SO2, NOx and NH3 split into 11 SNAP sectors (Selected Nomenclature for Air Pollution, European Environment Agency, 2013), international shipping and European import emissions. For each 5 km grid square across the domain, pollutant compounds for SOx, NOy and NHx deposition were calculated for all footprints. In addition the output deposition data was split into more detailed chemical species to provide an approximation of how much of each 'source attribution type (e.g. livestock, fertiliser, shipping, etc.) is a short or long range input. Deposition data was output to three different ecosystem types - forest, moorland (representing short semi-natural vegetation) and a grid average (an average of arable, grassland, urban, forest and moorland). The resulting datasets were calibrated to CBED - Concentration Based Estimated Deposition for the three-year period 2011-2013. The FRAME output consists of 90 footprint files which were merged with a gridded UK protected site shapefile to create to a dataset which only contained data for all SAC, SPA and SSSI sites in the UK. The minimum, maximum and grid average deposition value for each pollutant, and each footprint at each site was then calculated. The full methodology is available in the contextual metadata which can be found attached to this record. The work of APIS is jointly funded between the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and the UK pollution and conservation agencies including Natural Resources Wales (NRW), the Environment Agency, Northern Ireland Environment Agency, Natural England, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), Scotland and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research (SNIFFER), the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), and Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH).