Plynlimon experimental catchments, Wales UK

Location of the Plynlimon catchments, Wales, UK

Vegetation/Land use

The Wye catchment is 98.8% grassland, while in the Severn forestry is dominant, covering 67.5% of the catchment.

Context of investigation

• Ecological Processes & Resilience
• Environmental Monitoring & Observation
• Soil
• Sustainable Land Management
• Water Resources

Measurements/Equipment

• Climate station
• Suspended sediments
• Solute transport
• Soil moisture
• Ecological Processes & Resilience
• Sustainable Land Management
• Water Resources

Links to project webpages

• Plynlimon: a critical zone observatory, CEH

other Links

• Plynlimon in wikipedi

References

• Beven, K.J., Kirkby, M.J., Schofield, N., Tagg, A.F., 1984. Testing a physically-based flood forecasting model (TOPMODEL) for three U.K: catchments. Journal of Hydrology, 69, 119-143.
• Beven, K.J., 1979. On the Generalized Kinematic Routing Method. Water Resources Research, 15(5), 1238-1242.
• Beven, K.J., 2012. Rainfall-Runoff Modelling The Primer, Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, UK, ISBN 978-0-470-71459-1.
• Hudson, J.A., Gilman, K., 1993. Long-term variability in the water balances of the PLYNLIMON CATCHMENTS. JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY, 143(3-4), 355-380, DOI: 10.1016/0022-1694(93)90199-J.
• Hudson, J.A., Gilman, K., Calder, I.R., 1997. Land use and water issues in the uplands with reference to the Plynlimon study. HYDROLOGY AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES, 1(3) 389-397.
• Hudson, J.A., Crane, S.B.; Blackie, J. R., 1997. The Plynlimon water balance 1969-1995: the impact of forest and moorland vegetation on evaporation and streamflow in upland catchments. HYDROLOGY AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES, 1(3), 409-427.
• Kirkby, C., Newson, M.D., Gilman, K., 1991. Plynlimon research: The first two decades. IH Report No. 109 published by the Institute of Hydrology, Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK, ISBN 0 948540 27 3.
• Neal, C., Kirchner, J.W., 2000. Sodium and chloride levels in rainfall, mist, streamwater and groundwater at the Plynlimon catchments, mid-Wales: inferences on hydrological and chemical controls. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 4, 295-310, DOI: 10.5194/hess-4-295-2000.
• Neal, C ., Reynolds, B., , Kirchner, J.W., Rowland, P., , Norris, D., Sleep, D.,, Lawlor, A., Woods, C.,, Thacker, S., Guyatt, H., Vincent, C., Lehto, K., Grant, S.,, Williams, J., Neal, M., Wickham, H., Harman, S., Armstrong, L., 2011: Three decades of water quality measurements from the Upper Severn experimental catchments at Plynlimon Wales an openly accessible data resource for research, modelling environmental management and education. Hydrol. Process. 27(17), 2531-2539, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9814.
• Quinn, P.F., Beven, K.J., 1993. Spatial and temporal predictions of soil moisture dynamics, runoff, variable source areas and evapotranspiration for Plynlimon, Mid-Wales. Hydrological Processes, 7(4), 425–448, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.3360070407.
• Page, T., Beven, K.J., Freer, J., Neal, C., 2007. Modelling the chloride signal at Plynlimon, Wales, using a modified dynamic TOPMODEL incorporating conservative chemical mixing (with uncertainty). Hydrological Processes, 21(3), 292–307, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6186.
• Robinson, M., Rodda, J.C., Sutcliffe, J.V., 2012: Long-term environmental monitoring in the UK: origins and achievements of the Plynlimon catchment study. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 38, 451–463, DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00534.x.
• Sklash, M.G., Beven, K.J., Gilman, K., Darling, G., 1998. Isotpe studies of pipeflow at Plynlimon, Wales, UK. Hydrological Processes 10(7), 921–944, DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085(199607)10:7<921::AID-HYP347>3.0.CO;2-B.