AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Habitat risk score of mangrove areas in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta calculated using the InVEST model, 2017

[This dataset is embargoed until January 4, 2027]. This dataset provides a calculation of the habitat risk index of mangrove forest in Soc Trang, Ca Mau, Kien Giang, in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, in 2017. The percentage of area for no, low, medium, and high risk are provided for each stressor across the 3 provinces. Stressors across the three provinces are categorised as erosion, fishing near shore, mangrove exploitation, drought and pollution. For Ca Mau, additional stressors include fishing near shore, erosion and pollution, for Kien Giang, stressors include erosion, and for Soc Trang, stressors include deforestation, fishing near shore, drought and erosion. The risk and intensity of each stressor is weighted by the frequency of the stressor's disturbance, the rate of land area change, change in structure, management effectiveness. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/75179e35-5f42-4335-ac71-883258e8285a

Tags: Coastal, Habitats and Biotopes, InVEST model, Mangrove, Mekong Delta, Risk assessment, Vietnam
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Daily and sub-daily hydrometeorological and soil moisture data (2013-2025) [COSMOS-UK]

This dataset contains daily and sub-daily hydrometeorological and soil moisture observations from the COSMOS-UK (cosmic-ray soil moisture) monitoring network from October 2013 to the end of 2025 . These data are from 51 sites across the UK recording a range of hydrometeorological and soil variables. Each site in the network records the following hydrometeorological and soil data at 30-minute resolution: Radiation (short wave, long wave, and net), precipitation, atmospheric pressure, air temperature, wind speed and direction, humidity, soil heat flux, and soil temperature and volumetric water content (VWC), measured by point sensors at various depths. Each site hosts a cosmic-ray sensing probe; a novel sensor technology which counts fast neutrons in the surrounding atmosphere. In combination with the recorded hydrometeorological data, neutron counts are used to derive VWC over a field scale (COSMOS VWC), provide at daily resolution. The presence of snow leads to erroneously high measurements of COSMOS VWC due to all the extra water in the surrounding area. Included in the daily data are indications of snow days, on which, the COSMOS VWC are adjusted, and the snow water equivalent (SWE) is given. The potential evapotranspiration (PE), derived from recorded hydrometeorological and soil are also included at daily resolution. Two levels of quality control are carried out, firstly data is run through a series of automated checks, such as range tests and spike tests, and then all data is manually inspected each week where any other faults are picked up, including sensor faults or connection issues. Quality control flags are provided for all recorded (30 minute) data, indicating the reason for any missing data. This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/Y006208/1 as part of the UKCEH NC-UK programme delivering National Capability.

Tags: Atmospheric Conditions, Atmospheric pressure, COSMOS-UK, Cosmic-Ray sensing probe, Latent heat, Longwave radiation, Net radiation, Potential evapotranspiration, Precipitation, Rainfall, Relative humidity, Sensible heat, Shortwave radiation, Soil depth 10cm, Soil depth 20cm, Soil depth 2cm, Soil depth 50cm, Soil depth 5cm, Soil heat flux, Soil humidity, Soil temperature, Soil water content, Soil wetness, UK, VWC, Volumetric water content, Wind direction, Wind speed
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Climate station data from three common garden plantations along a thermal gradient in the Colombian Andes, 2019-2025

This dataset compiles weather station data from the Colombian Andes collected at three experimental sites with contrasting mean annual temperatures (13.7, 22.1, and 25.5 degrees Celsius). Recorded variables include direct and diffuse radiation, precipitation, air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, and atmospheric visibility. Data were recorded at a 10-minute resolution using Campbell Scientific CR1000X dataloggers. A second data logger (HOBO U23-001 Pro v2) recorded air temperature, relative humidity, and dew point at the same temporal resolution. The Dataset spans from October 2019 to April 2025. Weather stations were installed within common garden plantations established between December 2018 and January 2019 along an elevational gradient in the Colombian Andes to investigate dominant Andean tree species responses to changes in temperature. The supporting document of each dataset describes measured variables, units, sampling locations, quality control procedures, detailed sampling protocols, data processing steps, and dataset-specific methodological information. Further information about the experimental sites is available at: https://andeantreewarming.wordpress.com Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/a7029b8b-76b0-49be-99e1-6db8f03404cc

Tags: Andean elevation gradient, common garden, plant responses to warming
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Land-use change and emissions projections for Brazil (2020-2050) from net-zero pathway scenarios

This dataset contains scenario-based projections of land use, greenhouse gas emissions and energy system indicators for Brazil. The variables include land-use change, agricultural production, commodity prices, cattle herd size, carbon capture, biofuel production, primary energy supply and sectoral greenhouse gas emissions, expressed in MtCO2e/yr. The data were generated to support research and policy analysis of land-use dynamics, agricultural systems, energy transitions and climate mitigation in Brazil. The projections cover the period from 2020 to 2050 and are reported at five-year intervals. The data cover the entire national territory of Brazil. Spatially explicit land-use outputs are provided using GLOBIOM-Brazil ColRow grid identifiers, while energy and emissions outputs are reported at the national scale. The projections were generated using a regional soft-linked integrated assessment modelling framework, combining the GLOBIOM-Brazil (Global Biosphere Management model for Brazil) land-use model and the BLUES (Brazilian Land Use and Energy System) energy-focused integrated assessment model. The dataset includes outputs for a baseline scenario and multiple mitigation pathways designed to achieve net-zero emissions in Brazil by 2050. It enables comparison of alternative development and mitigation pathways and provides the underlying data used to assess interactions between land, energy and greenhouse gas emissions.

Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Habitat quality of mangrove areas in the Mekong Delta (Soc Trang, Ca Mau and Kien Giang) using the InVEST Habitat Quality model, 2017

[This dataset is embargoed until January 4, 2027]. This dataset calculates the habitat quality and habitat degradation index of the coastal mangrove forest in Soc Trang, Ca Mau, Kien Giang in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, in 2017, using the InVEST habitat quality model. The dataset includes inputs and outputs for the InVEST habitat quality model; including the distribution of habitat quality index values represented in a habitat quality map; distribution of threat factors to habitat quality and vector data; land use and land cover map of Kien Giang, Ca Mau, Soc Trang in 2017; output of habitat quality model, include habitat quality index map and habitat degradation index map. The InVEST Habitat Quality (HQ) model is an open source tool that uses land-use maps and threat data to assess biodiversity. Habitat quality and rarity are used as proxies to represent the biodiversity of a landscape - estimating the extent of habitat and vegetation types across a landscape, and their state of degradation (Stanford University). The model combines maps of land use land cover (LULC) with data on threats to habitats and habitat response. Modelling habitat quality alongside ecosystem services enables users to compare spatial patterns and identify areas where conservation will most benefit natural systems and protect threatened species. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/f969bdf8-4aa2-4cd1-a6ee-c9ecabf35df7

Tags: Coast, Habitat quality, Habitats and Biotopes, Mangrove, Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Potential evapotranspiration derived from HadUK-Grid 1km gridded climate observations 1969-2024 (Hydro-PE HadUK-Grid)

Gridded potential evapotranspiration calculated from HadUK-Grid gridded observed meteorological data at 1 km resolution over the United Kingdom for the years 1969-2024. This dataset contains two potential evapotranspiration variables: daily total potential evapotranspiration (PET; kg m-2 d-1) and daily total potential evapotranspiration with interception correction (PETI; kg m-2 d-1). The units kg m-2 d-1 are equivalent to mm d-1. The data are provided in gridded netCDF files. There is one file for each variable, for each calendar month. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/2aa2c8ab-9e32-4b3b-9636-503912305aca

Tags: Atmospheric Conditions, potential evaporation, potential evapotranspiration
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
EPSRC project presentation: Illustrations of geological framework & models, reservoir and seal mineralogy research by BGS for WP1 CASSEM project

The CASSEM project developed new methodologies, workflows and insights essential for the successful identification and evaluation of safe and effective CO2 storage sites in offshore saline aquifers. The project selected on-shore and/or near-shore sites from which useful analogue data and information was obtained in order to characterise important aquifer and cap rock systems. Such onshore data acquisition enables key information to be gathered (through outcrop and/or borehole sampling) at much lower cost than could be achieved for long-term offshore storage options.

Tags: Carbon, Energy conservation, Energy storage, Fossil fuels, NERC_DDC
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
WITHDRAWN: BGS BGS-HPA OneGeology Radon Potential (OGC WMS)

The BGS-HPA UK OneGeology Radon Potential Web map service provides access to the BGS-HPA UK OneGeology Radon Potential dataset. This service provides access to the BGS-HPA UK OneGeology Radon Potential data at scales smaller than 1:250,000.

Tags: Data, Digital maps, GIS, Geology, Maps, NERC_DDC, Radon gas
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Do palaeogene marine sediments in the Andaman Flysch, Sylhet Trough and Iranian Makran record early erosion of the Himalayas?

PROJECT DETAILS ONLY. Mountain belts disrupt atmospheric circulation patterns and profoundly influence climate. Understanding long-term climate change thus requires good definition of timing and growth rate of major mountain belts, but is complicated by high erosion rates which remove much of the early record of mountain formation. Sophisticated geodynamic and climate-atmosphere models describe the evolution and influences of the Himalayan-Tibet orogen. Many geodynamic models predict palaeogene crustal thickening with little or no early exhumation and erosion. Such models need testing. Decades of geological, geophysical and geochemical investigations centred on the continental rock record have failed to produce data sets suitable for testing fully such models because information about the early orogen evolution is missing. Our alternative strategy looks at marine sediments formed from material eroded in the early history of the mountain belt and preserved in the Andaman Islands, Sylhet Trough, Bangladesh and Iranian Makran. These sediments contain a record of their origin and early history in the Himalayas-Tibet which can be recovered using a combination of geochemical and thermochronological methods. Results from this project will provide the groundwork for major international collaborative projects to drill sediments eroded off the Himalayas and deposited offshore in the Indus and Bengal submarine fans.

Tags: Earth sciences, NERC_DDC, Sedimentary geology
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
National Neonatal Audit Programme annual report on 2014 data

This publication contains data from the National Neonatal Audit Programme annual report on 2014 data. The audit aims to assess whether babies admitted to neonatal units receive consistent high-quality care.

Data from the NNAP need careful interpretation. It should not be considered in isolation when assessing standards of care. Data files should be considered alongside their accompanying annual report to support interpretation.

Organization: Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership
Geophysical methodologies for the characterisation of gas hydrate core (HYDRAGAS) - Final Report to NERC Oct04

PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. Through manufacturing, and geophysically characterising the properties and distribution of a range of synthetic gas hydrate morphologies in a range of sediments in the laboratory, protocols will be established for geophysically logging natural sediment-hydrate core preserved in pressure chambers on board ship. Based on pressure cycling, geophysical behaviour responses will be determined during the start of dissociation and formation. On this basis we then propose to develop protocols to characterise and classify hydrates sampled during ODP Leg 204, significantly improving our understanding of the nature and behaviour of these sediments. This new knowledge will enhance geophysical survey data, better constrain estimates of in-situ hydrates and improve the evaluation of hydrate destabilisation on methane release and slope stability.

Tags: NERC_DDC, Reports
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Determination of the Rupture History of Large Earthquakes from Analysis of Broad Band Seismograms

PROJECT DETAILS ONLY. A complete picture of the processes occurring on seismically active faults is the essential prerequisite for the reliable assessment and mitigation of earthquake hazards. But earthquake parameters vary greatly over the fault in large earthquakes. For example, earthquake fault slip can range from 1-15 metres on different portions of the fault for any earthquake. Further slow slip has also been observed after a recent earthquake. In addition, earthquake damage depends directly on the speed at which the Earth's crust fractures. Our earlier studies showed that it is possible for this rupture velocity to be very high on some portions of the fault. Thus, sites close to regions of higher rupture velocity would be damaged more than other regions. Advance knowledge of such sites, based on earthquakes that have already occurred, is invaluable for making decisions on siting of critical structures (for example, dams, bridges, power plants, etc.). This proposal aims to quantify the distribution of slip, rupture speed, stress drops, and other fundamental source characteristics over the fault for several recent large earthquakes, by analysing seismograms. The results will also be used to increase our understanding of active tectonic areas. The relevant equations will be solved using a massively parallel computer cluster. The recent occurrence of several large earthquakes makes this investigation timely.

Tags: Chemistry, NERC_DDC, Natural hazards, Physics, Tectonics
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Dating of Authigenic K-feldspar as a tracer of fluid flow in Atlantic Margin Basins - Final report

PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. Combining Ar-Ar dating of K-feldspar overgrowths with fluid inclusion temperature data to reconstruct burial histories and fluid flow in UK Atlantic margin basins

Tags: Marine geology, Mud systems, NERC_DDC, Sands
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Developing Hydropyrolysis to Generate Molecular Biomarker Signals for Solving Key Problems in Oil Exploration Where Conventional Biomarkers Fail - Final Report

PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. The aim is to realise the potential of hydropyrolysis (pyrolysis assisted by high hydrogen gas pressures) as a means to provide reliable molecular fingerprints for severely biodegraded oils, contaminated cores, oil-field solids (tar mats and pyrobitumens) and to provide novel information on basin filling history where the conventional free biomarker approach fails. This will then facilitate rapid and accurate oil-source and oil-oil correlations to be determined for the first time in Ocean Margin regions. The study will establish a firm base to exploit the commercial potential of hydropyrolysis, both in terms of oil exploration through the new correlations with bound biomarker profiles and of characterising sedimentary organic matter as a far superior technique to py-GC-MS. Indeed, innovative experimental protocols for conducting hydropyrolysis will continue to be developed to have a proto-type system ready for future exploitation.

Tags: NERC_DDC, Pyrolysis
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Sediment particle size distribution from Warton Bank and Old Hall saltmarshes, England, winter and summer 2025

This dataset contains measurements of sediment particle size distribution associated with denitrification rates from two saltmarshes in England (Old Hall in the Blackwater estuary, Warton Bank in the Ribble estuary) and in two seasons (Winter: December 2024/January 2025 and Summer: June/July 2025). The survey, laboratory measurements and data processing were done by Bangor University and UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology for the Environmental Agency. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/56241997-8189-4455-9623-44cce052db11

Tags: Environmental Monitoring Facilities
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
A Deep Seismic Study of the Amazon Cone: Implications for the Strength of the Extended Continental Lithosphere - Seismic Data from D275

PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. The Amazon Cone is a deep-sea fan system that developed on a continental margin approximately 90-100 Myr following a rifting event. Gravityand flexure modelling suggest that the Cone sediments have loaded the margin almost to the limits of its strength. The investigators propose to carry out the first seismic refraction experiment to determine the structure of the crust and mantle that has been deformed by the Cone load. The experiment will provide new constraints on the structure, the nature of the ocean-continental boundary, the thermal and mechanical properties, and the resource potential of deep-water continental margins. All seismic reflection and refraction data are currently being held by the PIs at Oxford and Durham

Tags: NERC_DDC, Seismic reflection surveys, Seismic refraction surveys
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
A Deep Seismic Study of the Amazon Cone: Implications for the Strength of the Extended Continental Lithosphere - Discovery Cruise 275

PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. Marine geophysical survey of the NE BRazil and French Guiana continental margin onboard RRS Discovery (D275). The Amazon Cone is a deep-sea fan system that developed on a continental margin approximately 90-100 Myr following a rifting event. Gravity and flexure modelling suggest that the Cone sediments have loaded the margin almost to the limits of its strength. The investigators propose to carry out the first seismic refraction experiment to determine the structure of the crust and mantle that has been deformed by the Cone load. The experiment will provide new constraints on the structure, the nature of the ocean-continental boundary, the thermal and mechanical properties, and the resource potential of deep-water continental margins.

Tags: NERC_DDC, Oil wells, Refraction (seismic), Reports, Seismic surveys
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Evaluation of Regional Slope Stability of the European Continental Margin - Shapefiles

PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. There is a large deal of uncertainty as to the levels of stabilty of slope components of the European margin, other than localised detailed surveys completed using combination of sidescan sonar and swath bathymetry in recent years. Thesse surveys have revealed that the factors which control the locations of areas of potential slope failure are complex and manifold. Clearly slope gradients, sediment supply, physical oceanographic conditions and sediment type all have major roles to play, but their interaction is far from well understood. One of the problems to be addressed is the lack of a comprehenisve and focussed data synthesis with which to derive and test models of slope behaviour. A promising way in which this shortfall could be rectified would be to combine selected parts of the extensive survey database acquired by the telecommunications industry in it search for suitable pathways in which to lay earlier copper-core and now more recently, fibre-optic cable systems. These data would be interpreted in conjunction with a rigorous analysis of the industry's historical cable fault database which provides parameters of naturally occuring cable failures (through sediment failure, for example). Together these data will provide an understanidng of the geological characteristics of key parts of the European shelf, underpinned with the statistics of active slope processes over the most recent decades. The benefits of such a synthesis to both the telecommunications and hydrocarbon industries cannot be overstated.

Tags: Bathymetry, NERC_DDC
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
Evaluation of Regional Slope Stability of the European Continental Margin - Contours

PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. There is a large deal of uncertainty as to the levels of stabilty of slope components of the European margin, other than localised detailed surveys completed using combination of sidescan sonar and swath bathymetry in recent years. Thesse surveys have revealed that the factors which control the locations of areas of potential slope failure are complex and manifold. Clearly slope gradients, sediment supply, physical oceanographic conditions and sediment type all have major roles to play, but their interaction is far from well understood. One of the problems to be addressed is the lack of a comprehenisve and focussed data synthesis with which to derive and test models of slope behaviour. A promising way in which this shortfall could be rectified would be to combine selected parts of the extensive survey database acquired by the telecommunications industry in it search for suitable pathways in which to lay earlier copper-core and now more recently, fibre-optic cable systems. These data would be interpreted in conjunction with a rigorous analysis of the industry's historical cable fault database which provides parameters of naturally occuring cable failures (through sediment failure, for example). Together these data will provide an understanidng of the geological characteristics of key parts of the European shelf, underpinned with the statistics of active slope processes over the most recent decades. The benefits of such a synthesis to both the telecommunications and hydrocarbon industries cannot be overstated.

Tags: Bathymetry, NERC_DDC
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)