3D soil hydraulic database of Europe at 250 m resolution. Issue 14 (30th May 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tóth, Brigitta; Weynants, Melanie; Pásztor, László; Hengl, Tomislav
• Is Part Of: Hydrological processes. Volume 31:Issue 14(2017)
• Page Start: 2662
• Page End: 2666
• Publication Date: 2017-05-30
• Subjects: 3D European soil hydraulic maps -- EU‐SoilHydroGrids -- Mualem‐van Genuchten parameters -- multilayered gridded information -- soil hydraulic conductivity -- soil water retention; Hydrology -- Periodicals; Hydrology -- Research -- Periodicals; Hydrologic models -- Periodicals; Hydrological forecasting -- Periodicals; 631.432
• DOI: 10.1002/hyp.11203
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0885-6087

Abstract

Abstract: Soil hydraulic properties are required in various modelling schemes. We propose a consistent spatial soil hydraulic database at 7 soil depths up to 2 m calculated for Europe based on SoilGrids250m and 1 km datasets and pedotransfer functions trained on the European Hydropedological Data Inventory. Saturated water content, water content at field capacity and wilting point, saturated hydraulic conductivity and Mualem‐van Genuchten parameters for the description of the moisture retention, and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity curves have been predicted. The derived 3D soil hydraulic layers (EU‐SoilHydroGrids ver1.0) can be used for environmental modelling purposes at catchment or continental scale in Europe. Currently, only EU‐SoilHydroGrids provides information on the most frequently required soil hydraulic properties with full European coverage up to 2 m depth at 250 m resolution.