Global Soil Moisture Data Bank

Department of Environmental Sciences
Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey

LINKS TO OTHER SOIL MOISTURE DATA SETS

UNITED STATES:
 
Data sets being used by the LDAS Validation project.
Oklahoma Mesonet
Oklahoma and Kansas, from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM)/Cloud and Radiation Testbed (CART)
National data, from the Soil Climate Analysis Network
Nebraska, from the High Plains Regional Climate Center
Illinois, from the Illinois State Water Survey
NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE for North Carolina

 
AMERIFLUX Long-term CO2 flux measurements of the Americas

 
JORNADA, NEW MEXICO LTER DATA

 
KONZA PRAIRIE LTER DATA

 
BONANZA CREEK, ALASKA LTER DATA (and enter "soil moisture" in the search box)
Weekly Summer Soil Moisture (TDR) at LTER weather stations
Soil Moisture at floodplain sites, 1985-1999: Hourly
OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE soil moisture data
From the Throughfall Displacement Experiment
Global Data Set of Palmer Drought Severity Index for 1870-2003
Derived using monthly surface air temperature and precipitation
LITTLE RIVER EXPERIMENTAL WATERSHED, GEORGIA (29 stations starting in 2001)
For more information, contact David Bosch

AUSTRALIA:

Soil moisture data from the Tarrawarra experiments
Soil moisture data from the Nerrigundah Catchment

BRAZIL:

MANAUS, BRAZIL (data description)
MANAUS, BRAZIL (download data)

SWEDEN:

Northern Hemisphere Climate-Processes Land-Surface Experiment (NOPEX)
The overall objective of NOPEX is to quantify the energy and mass
budgets for a landscape dominated by the boreal forest.

ITALY:

Surface observations for remote sensing ground truth

RUSSIA, UKRAINE:

SOIL MOISTURE DATA for RUSSIA and UKRAINE
available from NCDC, NOAA.



Prepared by Alan Robock (robock@envsci.rutgers.edu) and Haibin Li (hli@envsci.rutgers.edu)
Last updated on July 23, 2009