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- Title
An Operational In Situ Soil Moisture & Soil Temperature Monitoring Network for WestWales, UK: The WSMN Network.
- Authors
Petropoulos, George P.; McCalmont, Jon P.
- Abstract
This paper describes a soil moisture dataset that has been collecting ground measurements of soil moisture, soil temperature and related parameters for west Wales, United Kingdom. Already acquired in situ data have been archived to the autonomous Wales Soil Moisture Network (WSMN) since its foundation in July 2011. The sites from which measurements are being collected represent a range of conditions typical of the Welsh environment, with climate ranging from oceanic to temperate and a range of the most typical land use/cover types found in Wales. At present, WSMN consists of a total of nine monitoring sites across the area with a concentration of sites in three sub-areas around the region of Aberystwyth located in Mid-Wales. The dataset of composed of 0-5 (or 0-10) cm soil moisture, soil temperature, precipitation, and other ancillary data. WSMN data are provided openly to the public via the International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) platform. At present, WSMN is also rapidly expanding thanks to funding obtained recently which allows more monitoring sites to be added to the network to the wider community interested in using its data.
- Subjects
SOIL moisture; SOIL temperature; METEOROLOGICAL precipitation; CLIMATOLOGY; LAND use
- Publication
Sensors (14248220), 2017, Vol 17, Issue 7, p1481
- ISSN
1424-8220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/s17071481