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High-resolution hydraulic parameter maps for surface soils in tropical South America
Spatial data files holding gridded parameter maps of surface soil hydraulic parameters derived from a selection of pedotransfer functions. Modern land surface model simulations capture soil profile water movement through the use of soil hydraulics sub-models, but good hydraulic parameterisations are often lacking - especially in the tropics - and it is this lack that we fill here in the context of South America. Optimal hydraulic parameter values are given for the Brooks and Corey, Campbell, van Genuchten-Mualem and van Genuchten-Burdine soil hydraulic models, which are widely-used hydraulic sub-models in many land surface models (e.g. Joint UK Land Environment Simulator JULES). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/4078678b-768f-43ff-abba-b87712f648e9
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- Date (Publication)
- 2014-04-03
- Citation identifier
- CEH:EIDC: / 1395401816570
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/4078678b-768f-43ff-abba-b87712f648e9
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- doi: / 10.5285/4078678b-768f-43ff-abba-b87712f648e9
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Marthews, T., Quesada, C.A., Galbraith, D.R., Malhi, Y., Mullins, C.E., Hodnett, M.G., Dharssi, I. (2014). High-resolution hydraulic parameter maps for surface soils in tropical South America. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/4078678b-768f-43ff-abba-b87712f648e9
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Marthews, T.
Point of contact University of Oxford Marthews, T.
Author Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia Quesada, C.A.
Author University of Leeds Galbraith, D.R.
Author University of Oxford
Malhi, Y.
Author Unaffiliated
Mullins, C.E.
Author Unaffiliated
Hodnett, M.G.
Author Bureau of Meteorology Dharssi, I.
Author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Owner
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- Not planned
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© UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Marthews, T., Quesada, C.A., Galbraith, D.R., Malhi, Y., Mullins, C.E., Hodnett, M.G., Dharssi, I. (2014). High-resolution hydraulic parameter maps for surface soils in tropical South America. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/4078678b-768f-43ff-abba-b87712f648e9
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- Grid
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- English
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- UTF8
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- Environment
- Begin date
- 2010-01-01
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- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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Name Version NetCDF
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/4078678b-768f-43ff-abba-b87712f648e9 Download the data
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/4078678b-768f-43ff-abba-b87712f648e9.zip Supporting information
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
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Soil measurements have been interpolated from several sources including new and original data as well as older sources such as RADAMBRASIL http://daac.ornl.gov/LBA/guides/Pre_LBA_RADAMBrasil.html , using the polygons of the SOTERLAC soil and terrain database as a base ( http://www.isric.org/projects/soter-latin-america-and-caribbean-soterlac ). All files were generated using Esri ArcGIS 10.0 at 15 arc-sec resolution (cells ~ 450 m x 450 m at the Equator) snapped to the HydroSHEDS Digital Elevation Model ( http://www.hydrosheds.org/ ). All NetCDF files conform to the Climate and Forecast (CF) conventions. For more detail of all methods followed, please see Marthews et al. (2014).
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- 4078678b-768f-43ff-abba-b87712f648e9 XML
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- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
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- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-03-21T13:21:43
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
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2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Point of contact
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