Date ()

2018-04-19

Date ()

2018-04-19

Date ()

2018-04-19

Identifier

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None

Maintenance and update frequency

notPlanned

Keywords

• runoff

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()

• Soil

Use constraints

Copyright

Access constraints

otherRestrictions

Other constraints

No limitations on public access

Distance

100  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

Denominator

25000

Metadata language

eng (en)

Topic category

• Farming
• Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

/

SCT

Date

Identifier

No information provided.

Begin date

2018-04-19

End date

2018-04-19

Minimum value

-100000.00

Maximum value

900719825474.10

Reference system identifier

/

urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG:27700

Distribution format

• Esri shapefile

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  10

  )

OnLine resource

https://www.hutton.ac.uk/learning/natural-resource-datasets/soilshutton/soils-maps-scotland/download

Scope

dataset

Statement

The risk of runoff depends on how easily water can drain away from the soil surface. It also depends on how much water the soil can store. These in turn depend on fundamental soil characteristics such as soil porosity and flow pathways through the soil.

Each of the soils in the Soil Map of Scotland (partial cover) dataset was first allocated to one of 29 Hydrology of Soil Type (HOST) classes and then the Standard Percentage Runoff for these classes was determined from Boorman et al. (1995). These runoff values were then allocated to one of 3 classes that reflected the likelihood of a soil becoming saturated leading to water flowing over the land. The three classes, Low, Moderate or High, equate to less than 20, 20 to 40 and more than 40 percent runoff. Where the soil map units were described as complexes (that is, more than one soil type if found in a soil map unit), the precautionary principle was applied and the soil at most risk of generating runoff was used to describe the whole map unit.

Boorman, D.B., Hollis, J.M and Lilly, A. 1995. Hydrology of soil types: a hydrologically-based classification of the soils of the United Kingdom. Institute of Hydrology Report No.126. Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford.

Lilly, A & Baggaley, N.J. 2014. Developing simple indicators to assess the role of soils in determining risks to water quality, CREW project number CD2012_42.

Metadata

File identifier

ab89fb3c-14fa-4ec1-8cd2-f9811a61713d

Metadata language

eng (en)

Resource Type

dataset

Hierarchy level name

dataset

Date stamp

2022-03-23

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.2