Map of runoff risk (partial cover)

The map shows the risk of water flowing overland (runoff) carrying potential pollutants into water courses. This map primarily covers the cultivated land in Scotland. The digital dataset gives information on the likelihood of a potential pollutant applied to the soil surface running off the land to a water course in 3 classes: Low, Moderate or High and is based on fundamental soil characteristics such as depth to a slowly permeable layer, soil porosity and flow pathways through the soil.
 
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(2018) . Map of runoff risk (partial cover). https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/ab89fb3c-14fa-4ec1-8cd2-f9811a61713d

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Date ( Publication )
2018-04-19
Date ( Creation )
2018-04-19
Date ( Revision )
2018-04-19
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Keywords
  • runoff
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Soil
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Copyright
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Distance
100  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Denominator
25000
Metadata language
eng English
Topic category
  • Farming
  • Geoscientific information
Geographic identifier
/ SCT

 

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Minimum value
-100000.00
Maximum value
900719825474.10
Reference system identifier
/ urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG:27700

 

Distribution format
  • Esri shapefile (10 )

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

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File identifier
ab89fb3c-14fa-4ec1-8cd2-f9811a61713d   XML
Metadata language
eng English
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Hierarchy level name
dataset
Date stamp
2019-02-21
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0

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