BS 7898:1997

Committees responsible
Foreword
Introduction
Section 1. General
1.1 Scope
1.2 References
1.3 Definitions
Section 2. Principles of data management
2.1 The value of data
2.2 Duty of care
2.3 The sequence of data management
2.4 Time series data
2.5 Descriptive, analytical and statistical material
2.6 Site references
2.7 Data security
2.8 Dissemination of data
Section 3. Precipitation data
3.1 Raw data and initial validation
3.2 Data processing
3.3 Quality control
3.4 Archiving
3.5 Derived data
Section 4. Water level data
4.1 Raw data
4.2 Initial validation
4.3 Archiving
Section 5. Discharge and volume data
5.1 Raw discharge data
5.2 Discharge data derived from water levels
5.3 Daily mean discharge and instantaneous extremes
5.4 Naturalization of discharge data
5.5 Quality control of discharge data
5.6 Archiving derived discharge data
5.7 Volume data
Section 6. Stage-discharge relationships
6.1 Theoretical relationships
6.2 Checking the relationship
6.3 Reprocessing water level data with a changed
      relationship
6.4 Problems with low and high discharge
6.5 Archiving
Annexes
A (normative) Particular considerations applying to the
    United Kingdom
B (informative) Examples of published material
Figures
1 Examples of data processing cycles within a data
    management system
    B.1 Example of a summary fact sheet
    B.2 Example of a monthly data summary
    B.3 Example of an annual data summary
List of references

Provides guidance on good practice in the management of collected, and sometimes derived hydrometric data. It also covers material relating to sites where the data is collected.