Simpson, G; Hannaford, J; Dunbar, M; Laize, C; (2010) River water temperature patterns in England and Wales Surface water temperature archive for UK fresh water and estuarine sites — Phase II. (ECRC Research Report 140 ). UCL Environmental Change Research Centre: London, UK.

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Abstract

The Water Temperature Archive project was commissioned to collate historical surface-water temperature data and organise these records into a relational database, and to indicate recent trends in water temperatures across England and Wales. A subsequent programme of work was commissioned to aid interpretation of the results arising from analysis of the full archive. A major difficulty in interpreting the modelled trends and changes in temperature for sites in the Archive across the whole of England and Wales is that at such a large scale of analysis little validation of site temperature data can be performed. Furthermore, the particulars of individual sites as to changes upstream of the sampling location, such as construction of sewage outfalls, etc. could not be investigated for the entire Archive. This report details the findings of this second work programme, which aimed to address these difficulties by focussing analysis effort on sites located within the Benchmark Network catchments where existing flow data could be used to select sites with minimal disruptions.

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