This report was produced by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH), the UK’s centre for excellence for research in land and freshwater environmental sciences, in collaboration with the British Hydrological Society (BHS) which promotes all aspects of the inter-disciplinary subject of hydrology – the scientific study and practical applications of the movement, distribution and quality of freshwater in the environment. Funding support was provided by the Natural Environment Research Council.
CEH and BHS are extremely grateful to the many individuals and organisations that provided data and background information for this publication. River flow and groundwater data were provided by the principal hydrometric measuring authorities in the UK: the Environment Agency in England, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Natural Resources Wales (Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru) and the Rivers Agency in Northern Ireland. The Met Office National Climate Information Centre (NCIC) supplied the majority of the rainfall and climatological data featured in the report .
The reservoir stocks data were provided by the water service companies, Scottish Water and Northern Ireland Water. Additional data and information has been provided by the Canal & River Trust and a range of individuals and organisations. The provision of the basic data, which provides the foundation both of this report and the wider activities of the National Hydrological Monitoring Programme (NHMP), is gratefully acknowledged. Note: as is the case with the documenting of most extreme hydrometeorological episodes a proportion of the data featured in this report – maximum river flows in particular – is necessarily provisional and may be subject to future revision.
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