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Factors affecting the future of the Scottish hydrometric network

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

T. Poodle
T. Poodle
Affiliation:
Clyde River Purification Board, Rivers House, Murray Road, East Kilbride G75 OLA, Scotland, U.K.
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Abstract

The Scottish Hydrometric Network consists of a number of river gauging stations which have been located at sites considered suitable to provide long term flow records. Economic recession has placed some stress on the gauging programme, and has given rise to extensive closures of gauging stations in England and, to a minor extent so far, in Scotland. The way in which the network became established provides a mixture of strengths and weaknesses which could have unpredictable consequences in an adverse economic climate. Changing technology provides some opportunity to reduce the cost of data acquisition and improve the deployment of manpower, while maintaining data standards. In these changing circumstances, particularly with extensive use of computer systems, it is important that standards are established for data returned to the Water Archive and that the network is not allowed to degenerate by default.

Keywords

archivesdata loggerdata processingdata qualityeconomicsgaugingriver flowstandardisationtelemetry.
Type
Hydrometeorology
Information
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 78 , Issue 4: Hydrology in Scotland , 1987 , pp. 269 - 274
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1987

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