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Modelled daily soil moisture and soil temperature at 1km resolution across the UK mainland, 1965-2018

This dataset contains model outputs of daily mean volumetric water content and topsoil temperature at 1 km resolution across the UK mainland for the years 1965-2018. The outputs are generated using neural network models trained on COSMOS-UK (cosmic-ray soil moisture) observational data. The data are presented in monthly NetCDF files on the British National Grid. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/5100e84a-6af9-419b-b4b6-4a5df13b1aec

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Date (Publication)
2024-04-29
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/5100e84a-6af9-419b-b4b6-4a5df13b1aec
Identifier
doi: / 10.5285/5100e84a-6af9-419b-b4b6-4a5df13b1aec
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Khamis, D., Smith, R., Fry, M., Evans, J. (2024). Modelled daily soil moisture and soil temperature at 1km resolution across the UK mainland, 1965-2018. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/5100e84a-6af9-419b-b4b6-4a5df13b1aec
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Khamis, D.
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Smith, R.
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Fry, M.
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Evans, J.
Point of contact
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Khamis, D.
Owner
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Publisher
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Custodian
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Environmental Monitoring Facilities
GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3
  • soil moisture
Keywords
  • Soil
  • soil temperature
  • COSMOS
  • land surface temperature
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Khamis, D., Smith, R., Fry, M., Evans, J. (2024). Modelled daily soil moisture and soil temperature at 1km resolution across the UK mainland, 1965-2018. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/5100e84a-6af9-419b-b4b6-4a5df13b1aec
Spatial representation type
grid Grid
Distance
1000  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
Begin date
1965-01-01
End date
2018-12-31
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Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
  • NetCDF ( 4 )

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  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
The driving meteorology used to produce the outputs were from the CHESS-met dataset. Specifically, the inputs required to generate topsoil temperature outputs are: current day and previous day driving meteorology (temperature, total precipitation, longwave radiation, shortwave radiation, and the sunlight-hours average shortwave radiation); soil type vector (normalized ratios of five classes: sand, silt, clay, chalk, peat); soil organic carbon; bulk density of soil; land cover vector; elevation. There is an optional input of the MODIS 1 km Land Surface Temperature satellite product Day and/or Night values. The output of the topsoil temperature model is used as input to the soil moisture model. The inputs required for the soil moisture model are: daily driving meteorology (temperature, pressure, total precipitation, relative humidity, longwave radiation, shortwave radiation, wind speed, and the sunlight-hours average shortwave radiation); soil type vector (normalized ratios of five classes: sand, silt, clay, chalk, peat); soil organic carbon; bulk density of soil; base flow index from the hydrology of soil types (BFIHOST); land cover vector; soil temperature; elevation. There is an optional input of the daily 1 km Soil Water Index satellite product from Copernicus. Volumetric water content values in the COSMOS-UK data (TDT point probes and neutron sensor) that were higher than 90% were removed from the training set. The COSMOS-UK site Tadham Moor was removed from the training set after visual inspection of the TDT and neutron sensor data.
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5100e84a-6af9-419b-b4b6-4a5df13b1aec XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) 8859 Part 1
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Hierarchy level name
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Date stamp
2025-11-13T16:16:24
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg , Lancaster , LA1 4AP , UK
https://eidc.ac.uk/
 
 

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