National Hydrological Monitoring Programme - Hydrological Review of the Year

The National Hydrological Monitoring Programme (NHMP) currently publishes an annual review of hydrological events and hydrological conditions within each calendar year. Based on analysis and interpretation of the data holdings of the National River Flow Archive and the National Groundwater Level Archive, these regular reports place the year in its hydrological context, focussing on rainfall, evaporation and soil moisture, river flows, and groundwater levels.

The Hydrological Review of the Year is available electronically in various formats:

From 2006 to the most recent edition in 2010 as a pdf:

2010 [PDF, 1.6 MB] 2009 [PDF, 9.58 MB] 2008 [PDF, 12.4 MB] 2007 [PDF, 9.34 MB]
2006 [PDF, 7.82 MB]      

As a collection of webpages pages from 1996 to 2005:

2005 2004 2003 2002
2001 2000 1999 1998
1997 1996    

From 1981 to 1996 the annual reviews were featured in the Yearbooks published in the Hydrological data UK series; hard copies of these Yearbooks are available from the National River Flow Archive Office, though a few editions are out of print.

The Yearbooks can now be downloaded as a pdf, digitised from the original printed version:

1995 [PDF, 12.0 MB] 1994 [PDF, 13.3 MB] 1993 [PDF, 11.2 MB] 1992 [PDF, 10.1 MB]
1991 [PDF, 11.4 MB] 1990 [PDF, 12.8 MB] 1989 [PDF, 12.4 MB] 1988 [PDF, 12.4 MB]
1987 [PDF, 11.8 MB] 1986 [PDF, 13.8 MB] 1985 [PDF, 14.1 MB] 1984 [PDF, 16.9 MB]
1983 [PDF, 12.5 MB] 1982 [PDF, 8.8 MB] 1981 [PDF, 13.8 MB]  

A history of the production of the hydrological yearbook and precursor publications can be found here.

Yearbook Feature Articles

Some of the feature articles, relating to significant hydrological events or issues, from the earlier Yearbooks have been digitised. The articles are listed below, and PDF versions of the articles can be downloaded - please note that because of the scanning process some of the figures and plates reproduce poorly in monochrome.

Yearbook Article Author Download
1983
 Flow Gauging on the River Thames - The First 100 Years A.E. Jones
PDF [0.7 KB]
1985
 Inland Water Surveying in the United Kingdom - A Short History M.L. Lees
PDF [1.2 MB]
1985
 The McClean Hydrometric Data Collection A. Werritty
PDF [0.4 MB]
1986
 The Acquisition and Archiving of River Flow Data - Past and Present T.J. Marsh
PDF [1.3 MB]
1987
 The October 1987 Flood on the River Tywi J.R. Frost and E.C. Jones
PDF [0.7 MB]
1988
 Hydrological Analysis of the Truro floods of January and October 1988 M.C. Acreman
PDF [0.5 MB]
1989
 The 1988/89 Drought - A Hydrological Review M.L. Lees, S.J. Bryant and T.J. Marsh
PDF [1.1 MB]
1990
 1990 - A Year of Floods and Droughts T.J. Marsh and S.J. Bryant
PDF [1.0 MB]
1993
 The Great Tay Flood of January 1993 A.R. Black and J.L. Anderson
PDF [0.8 MB]
1994
 The Chichester Flood, January 1994 S.M. Taylor
PDF [0.4 MB]
1994
 Regional Flooding in Strathclyde, December 1994 A.R. Black and A.M. Bennett
PDF [0.5 MB]
1995
 The 1995 Drought - a water resources review in the context of the recent hydrological instability T.J. Marsh
PDF [0.7 MB]

 

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