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LOIS Data Centres

Rivers Data Centre

Datasets

Data Dictionaries

LOIS CD-ROMs

Background to the LOIS Programme

The Land Ocean Interaction Study (LOIS) was a Thematic Programme of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). It was a £30 million six year project in which both the Centres and Surveys within NERC and United Kingdom (UK) Universities participated.

The purpose of LOIS was to extend understanding of the movement of fluxes between the different components of the environment, particularly the land, air and ocean phases. Information is vital to such a study: the effective collation and manipulation of data from a wide variety of sources and subject areas was one of the keys to attaining the programmes scientific objectives.

A novel aspect of LOIS was the provision of central resources in terms of Data Centres, for the acquisition and distribution of data from and to the researchers.

The RACS(R) or Rivers Data Centre at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology  at Wallingford was one of five LOIS Data Centres. It used the Water Information System, WIS, to integrate, manage and analyse highly diverse datasets of both spatial and time series origin within a single unified 4-D database. The LOIS Programme was managed from NERC's Plymouth Marine Laboratory.

What's in our Web pages

• LOIS Data Centres - locations, aims and objectives
• The Rivers Data Centre - overview of datasets and brief database description
• Datasets - datasets available at the CEH Wallingford Rivers Data Centre
• Data Dictionaries - the chemical and freshwater algae dictionaries
• LOIS CD-ROMs - description of the LOIS CD-ROMs

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