The Boissy dataset consists of soil moisture observations from November 1996 - March 2003. Boissy-le-Châtel is a hydrological station in the Orgeval catchment, located in the Seine Basin at 47.8°N, 3.1°E. Soil moisture observations were taken twice daily at 11 different levels using a TDR probe, which was calibrated with gravimetric data. Observations were at 5, 15, 25, 35, 45, 55, 75, 95, 115, 135 and 155 cm. Each of the top five levels had observations from two different TDR probes. The data are total volumetric soil moisture (%). The vegetation at the site is grassland and the soil is white silt through the observed column. The data are available here to download in GrADS and Excel formats.
The GrADS data and control files contain the time series for each of the 11 levels. The first five levels had two observations at each time step. They are represented as an average in these files. For the unaveraged data see the Excel file below.
The Excel file with observations for each of the 11 levels including two observations for each of the top 5 levels, and the average values for these levels. Time steps with no data or bad data are represented with a blank. Click here to view or get the data in ascii format.
These data were originally obtained from Cemagref and can be accessed in the original form from the Cemagref website (in French).
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Prepared by Alan Robock (robock@envsci.rutgers.edu) and Tom Atkins (tatkins@envsci.rutgers.edu)
Last updated on July 15, 2004.