Enhanced UK Estuaries database: explanatory notes and metadata (SiTE P1). Development of estuary morphological models

This report provides a detailed outline of a newly enhanced estuary database which comprises a wide array of both qualitative descriptive parameters and “generalised” quantitative physical estuarine parameters. The estuarine data within the database are referred to as “bulk properties.” The new database compiled during Defra project FD2107 by Dr Manning is referred to as the “EDB2012” in this report. This database is available free of charge on the EstProc website (http://www.estproc.net).

In Section 2 of this report, a review of relevant literature and data sources is provided (including brief history of various earlier UK estuary databases), plus how a new estuary database could potentially be applied to a morphological modelling database.