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Collated neutron probe measurements and derived soil moisture data, UK, 1966-2013
The dataset of neutron probe soil moisture observations for 112 sites (428 probe locations) from 1966 to 2013 includes 4 comma-separated tables, derived from the UK Soil Moisture Databank.
The data include:
• Neutron probe readings (number of neutrons) and Volumetric soil moisture content (m3 m-3) at a range of soil depths
• Profile moisture content (m3 m-3) to a range of soil depths
• Metadata (includes probe location, maximum depth of readings, soil type, vegetation, start date, end date)
• Relevant publications (references and URL where available) for individual datasets
The tube site locations are provided as British National Grid references and latitude/longitude in the tube metadata file. Depths of tube readings are provided in metres.
Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/450bb14b-c711-47af-8792-f9bd88482cd4
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- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- utf8
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2022-05-19
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/450bb14b-c711-47af-8792-f9bd88482cd4
- Other citation details
- Bell, V.A., Davies, H.N., Fry, M., Zhang, T., Murphy, H., Hitt, O., Hewitt, E.J., Chapman, R., Black, K.B. (2022). Collated neutron probe measurements and derived soil moisture data, UK, 1966-2013. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/450bb14b-c711-47af-8792-f9bd88482cd4
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- Soil
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- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations
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- If you reuse this data, you should cite: Bell, V.A., Davies, H.N., Fry, M., Zhang, T., Murphy, H., Hitt, O., Hewitt, E.J., Chapman, R., Black, K.B. (2022). Collated neutron probe measurements and derived soil moisture data, UK, 1966-2013. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/450bb14b-c711-47af-8792-f9bd88482cd4
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- textTable
- Distance
- 1000 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Topic category
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- Environment
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- Begin date
- 1966-01-01
- End date
- 2013-12-31
Distribution Information
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- Quality Scope
- dataset
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- dataset
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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An archive of neutron probe data for over 400 UK locations has been assembled following a data recovery process. The UKSMD (UK Soil Moisture Databank) consists of neutron probe observations from 1966 to 2013 recovered from fragile magnetic tapes and from disparate spreadsheets and databases. Much of the older data (1960s and 1970s) formed part of a national soil moisture database, “The Soil Moisture Databank (SMDB)” which was previously considered lost, but has since been recovered from old tapes, reassembled, and quality assessed. An additional archive of more-recent neutron probe data for a further 329 probe locations up to 2013 has been retrieved from disparate spreadsheets and databases across UKCEH. All associated data, from the raw digitised neutron probe measurements to volumetric soil moisture data have been quality controlled and converted to standard (SI) units
See supporting information for more details.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 450bb14b-c711-47af-8792-f9bd88482cd4 XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1)
- Resource type
- dataset
- Hierarchy level name
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2022-05-20T11:04:54
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
