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Tanguy, M., Peng, J., Robinson, E., Pinnington, E., Evans, J., Ellis, R., Cooper, E., Hannaford, J., Blyth, E., Dadson, S. (2022). Soil moisture product merged from satellite and modelled data for Great Britain, April 2015-December 2017. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/26b8ddd4-09fd-4e40-a556-6a8f3a7481ea
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This dataset is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
Soil moisture product merged from satellite and modelled data for Great Britain, April 2015-December 2017
The dataset covers the period going from 1st April 2015 to 31st December 2017, at a daily timestep, and is available at two spatial resolutions: 12.5km; and 1km, which has been obtained after resampling all three underlying datasets to a 1km resolution.
Format
NetCDF
Spatial information
- Study area
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- Spatial representation type
- Raster
- Spatial reference system
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Temporal information
- Temporal extent
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2015-04-01 to 2017-12-31
Provenance & quality
Evaluation using in-situ soil moisture measurements from the COSMOS-UK network shows that the merged soil moisture integrates the characteristics of model simulation and satellite observations and particularly improves the limited temporal variability of the JULES-CHESS simulation.
Soil moisture is of fundamental importance to many hydrological, biological biochemical and meteorological processes. Accurate information about soil moisture is therefore valuable to a wide range of stakeholders.
Despite this, widespread, continuous and reliable measurements of soil moisture are currently not widely available. Remote sensing satellite data provides regional soil moisture data, but the accuracy is variable and missing data frequent. Soil moisture models, on the other hand, provide continuous data both in time and space, but are indirect estimates based on numerical simulations rather than observations and do not always capture the temporal dynamic of drying and wetting accurately.
Supplemental information
Correspondence/contact details
Lancaster
Lancashire
LA1 4AP
UNITED KINGDOM
Authors
Other contacts
- Rights holder
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- Custodian
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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centreinfo@eidc.ac.uk
- Publisher
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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centreinfo@eidc.ac.uk
Additional metadata
- Topic categories
- environment
- INSPIRE theme
- Meteorological geographical features
- Keywords
- ASCAT , Great Britain , land surface model , remote sensing , SMAP , Soil , Soil moisture , Triple Collocation Analysis
- Funding
- Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/S017380/1
- Last updated
- 08 February 2024 17:35
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This dataset is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
CITE AS: Tanguy, M.; Peng, J.; Robinson, E.; Pinnington, E.; Evans, J.; Ellis, R.; Cooper, E.; Hannaford, J.; Blyth, E.; Dadson, S. (2022). Soil moisture product merged from satellite and modelled data for Great Britain, April 2015-December 2017. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/26b8ddd4-09fd-4e40-a556-6a8f3a7481ea
Users must acknowledge the following data source: O'Neill, P. E., S. Chan, E. G. Njoku, T. Jackson, R. Bindlish, and J. Chaubell. 2019. SMAP Enhanced L3 Radiometer Global Daily 9 km EASE-Grid Soil Moisture, Version 3. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/T90W6VRLCBHI. [Accessed: March 2021].
Users must acknowledge the following data source: H SAF (2020): ASCAT Surface Soil Moisture Climate Data Record v5 12.5 km sampling - Metop, EUMETSAT SAF on Support to Operational Hydrology and Water Management, http://doi.org/10.15770/EUM_SAF_H_0006