Identification

Title

Available Water Capacity, Scotland WMS

Abstract

The proportion of water held in the soil at field capacity (5KPa) and at the permanent wilting point (1500kPa) was calculated for each soil horizon of each soil taxonomic unit (soil series) delineated within the 1:250 000 national soil map of Scotland based on pedotransfer functions (regression equations using median sand, silt, clay and organic carbon contents from the Scottish soils knowledge and information base (SSKIB) derived for soils in the UK (Hollis et al., 2015). The Available Water Content for each horizon was calculated by subtracting the water content at 1500 KPa from the water content at 5 kPa. The horizon thickness was then multiplied by the available water content (mm) and summed for the entire soil profile to 1 m or rock if <1m. The map shows the average available water capacity calculated using the areal proportions of all soils in each 1:250 000 soil map unit. Gagkas, Z., Lilly, A., Baggaley, N. & Donnelly, D. (2019). Map of available water capacity of soils in Scotland. James Hutton Institute. Aberdeen. Please note that this dataset differs significantly to the version of Available Water Capacity published in 2012. The difference results from the use of different regression equations to predict available water capacities (Hollis et al.) and bulk densities. In addition, the data values shown are weighted averages by polygon rather than the AWC of the dominant soil type in the polygon. The earlier version of AWC was published as Lilly, A, Baggaley, N and Donnelly, D. 2012. Map of available water content to 1 metre depth in soils of Scotland. Map prepared for EU project GS-SOIL-Assessment and strategic development of INSPIRE compliant Geodata-Services for European Soil Data. ECP-2008-GEO-318004.

Resource type

service

Resource locator

http://DRUID.HUTTON.AC.UK/arcgis/services/Hutton_AWC_2019/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

https://www.hutton.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/soils/Hutton_AWC_OSGB_2019.zip

protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

description: Zipped ESRI shapefile

Unique resource identifier

code

AWC_Scotland

codeSpace

Coupled resource

http://scotgovsdi.edina.ac.uk/srv/en/csw?service=CSW&request=GetRecordById&version=2.0.2&outputSchema=http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmd&elementSetName=full&id=def083aa-c9e0-411f-b426-3157eeed8b25

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

authority code

EPSG

code identifying the spatial reference system

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700)

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

Spatial data service type

view

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Soil

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

infoMapAccessService

originating controlled vocabulary

title

INSPIRE Service taxonomy

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-04-22

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.80

East bounding longitude

-0.71

North bounding latitude

60.87

South bounding latitude

54.63

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1981-01-01

End position

2013-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2019-03-27

Frequency of update

irregular

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

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

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

true

explanation

See the referenced specification

Data format

name of format

ESRI Shapefile

version of format

1.0

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

no limitations on public access

Constraint set

Use constraints

The James Hutton Institute Open Data Licence

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Chief Executive

organisation name

The James Hutton Institute

full postal address

Craigiebuckler

Aberdeen

AB15 8QH

Scotland

telephone number

facsimile number

email address

soils@hutton.ac.uk

responsible party role

custodian

Responsible party

contact position

Post-doctoral Researcher

organisation name

The James Hutton Institute

full postal address

Craigiebuckler

Aberdeen

AB15 8QH

Scotland

telephone number

facsimile number

email address

zisis.gagkas@hutton.ac.uk

responsible party role

principalInvestigator

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Senior Research Scientist

organisation name

The James Hutton Institute

full postal address

Craigiebuckler

Aberdeen

AB15 8QH

Scotland

telephone number

facsimile number

email address

david.donnelly@hutton.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2021-07-19

Metadata language

eng