Identification

Title

Soil hydraulic property data from the Climoor fieldsite in the Clocaenog Forest (2010-2012) v2

Abstract

This dataset contains soil hydraulic measurement data from the Climoor field site in the Clocaenog forest, in North Wales. The collection contains five data sets. 1) soil bulk density (0-5 centimetre) and saturated water content. 2) Unsaturated hydraulic conductivity measured in the field at tensions of -2 and -6 centimetre using a mini disk infiltrometer. 3) Unsaturated hydraulic conductivity measured using a HYPROP (registered trademark) instrument, an instrument which determines the hydraulic properties of soil samples, on soil cores taken from the field plots. 4) Soil water release curves for wet soil corresponding to the hydraulic conductivity measurements made using a HYPROP in the laboratory on cores from the field. 5) Soil water release curve data for dry soil measured using a WP4 potentiometer. The dataset has been quality checked, and incorrect or missing values removed, data has not been infilled and not available (NA's) have been added where there is no data. Data was collected between the end of 2010 and early 2012. Data sets 1, 3 and 4 were collected in April and September, 2011, data set 2 in May, 2012 and data set 5 in November, 2010. The Climoor field experiment intends to answer questions regarding the effects of warming and drought on ecosystem processes. The reported data were collected to monitor site specific soil properties at a specific reference time. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/e75620c0-547a-4756-a617-daf6180974d9

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/download?fileIdentifier=e75620c0-547a-4756-a617-daf6180974d9

name: Download the data

description: Download a copy of this data

function: order

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/e75620c0-547a-4756-a617-daf6180974d9.zip

name: Supporting information

description: Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/e75620c0-547a-4756-a617-daf6180974d9

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

geoscientificInformation

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Soil

Environmental Monitoring Facilities

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GeoNames

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2006-01-01

Keyword set

keyword value

North Wales

infiltrometer

HYPROP

bulk density

hydraulic conductivity

Soil water release

Heathland

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-3.479

East bounding longitude

-3.391

North bounding latitude

53.077

South bounding latitude

53.033

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2010-11-01

End position

2012-05-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2017-09-05

date type

creation

effective date

2016-11-17

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Data was collected by experienced staff scientists who work with soils. Data sets 1, 3 and 4 were collected using stainless steel cores that fit to the HYPROP (registered trademark) instrumentation (UMS, Munich, Germany). Bulk density in data set 1 used the oven drying method at 105 degrees celsius. Data set 2 was collected using a minidisk infiltrometer (Decagon devices, Pullman, USA) while data set 5 was measured using a WP4-PotentiaMeter (Decagon devices, Pullman, USA). All data visually inspected using basic graphing tools as part of the quality assurance, quality control procedures. Data processing steps using the HYPROP data (3, 4) included using the HYPROP-FIT Software. In order to have water release curve data at the same suction, all raw data were interpolated using spline fitting in R (R Development Core Team, 2014). The minidisk infiltrometer measurements were converted to hydraulic conductivity using the standard approach detailed in the minidisk manual, which along with all the other manuals is included in the data set supporting materials. All data were collated into an Excel spreadsheet. Each dataset was exported from the Excel spreadsheet as a separate comma separated (.csv) file for ingestion into the Environmental Information Data Centre.

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

Â© Bangor University

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Robinson, D.A., Lebron, I., Smith, A.R., Marshall, M.R., Emmett, B.A., Reinsch, S., Cooper, D.M., Brooks, M.R. (2017). Soil hydraulic property data from the Climoor fieldsite in the Clocaenog Forest (2010-2012) v2. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/e75620c0-547a-4756-a617-daf6180974d9

author

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environmental Information Data Centre

full postal address

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg

Lancaster

LA1 4AP

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2020-03-13T14:22:10

Metadata language

eng