High-resolution hydraulic parameter maps for surface soils in tropical South America

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Spatial data files holding gridded parameter maps of surface soil hydraulic parameters derived from a selection of pedotransfer functions. Modern land surface model simulations capture soil profile water movement through the use of soil hydraulics sub-models, but good hydraulic parameterisations are often lacking - especially in the tropics - and it is this lack that we fill here in the context of South America. Optimal hydraulic parameter values are given for the Brooks and Corey, Campbell, van Genuchten-Mualem and van Genuchten-Burdine soil hydraulic models, which are widely-used hydraulic sub-models in many land surface models (e.g. Joint UK Land Environment Simulator JULES). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/4078678b-768f-43ff-abba-b87712f648e9

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4078678b-768f-43ff-abba-b87712f648e9
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Latitude: 9° to -23.5°
Longitude: -82° to -44°
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2014-04-03 (publication)
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (pointOfContact, owner); University of Oxford (author); Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (author); University of Leeds (author); Unaffiliated (author); Bureau of Meteorology (author); NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre (custodian); NERC Environmental Information Data Centre (publisher)
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