Maximum available soil moisture (Global)

Grid with estimated maximum available soil moisture in mm/m with a spatial resolution of 5 * 5 arc minutes. Information with regard to maximum available soil moisture was calculated from the "Derived Soil Properties" of the "Digital Soil Map of the World" which contains raster information on soil moisture in different classes.

Simple

Date (Creation)
2002
Edition

first
Presentation form
Digital map
Purpose

For the purpose of water balance model calculations, an average maximum available soil moisture storage capacity was computed and assigned to each class.
Status
Completed
Originator
  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Land and Water Division - Jippe Hoogeveen (Water Resources Officer)
Theme

  • soil moisture

  • AQUAMAPS_globwat

  • infiltration

  • rooting depth

  • Tag_AQUASTAT
Place

  • World
Spatial representation type
Grid
Metadata language

eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
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Number of dimensions
3
Dimension name
Row
Dimension size
2160
Dimension name
Column
Dimension size
4320
Dimension name
Vertical
Cell geometry
Area
Transformation parameter availability
OnLine resource
GlobWat-Input-smax.zip ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Maximum available soil moisture - GlobWat input, 5 arc min ASCII-grid

OnLine resource
AQUAMAPS:hwsd_smax ( OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map )

Maximum available soil moisture (mm/m)

Hierarchy level
Dataset
File identifier
bb9ad1c0-88fd-11da-a88f-000d939bc5d8 XML
Metadata language

eng
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2024-07-23T14:25:20
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version

1.0
Point of contact
  FAO-UN Land and Water Division - AQUASTAT
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla , Rome , 00153 , Italy
 
 

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Keywords

AQUAMAPS_globwat Tag_AQUASTAT infiltration rooting depth soil moisture

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