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
- doi: / 10.5285/5100e84a-6af9-419b-b4b6-4a5df13b1aec
- Other citation details
- 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
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- Environmental Monitoring Facilities
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- Keywords
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- 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
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- Environment
- Begin date
- 1965-01-01
- End date
- 2018-12-31
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- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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NetCDF
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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.
- File identifier
- 5100e84a-6af9-419b-b4b6-4a5df13b1aec XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) 8859 Part 1
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
- dataset
- 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
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Lancaster
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LA1 4AP
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UK
https://eidc.ac.uk/
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