Development and Analysis of Soil Water Infiltration Global Database Institutional Repository Document uri icon

abstract

  • Abstract. In this paper, we present and analyze a global database of soil infiltration measurements, the Soil Water Infiltration Global (SWIG) database, for the first time. In total, 5023 infiltration curves were collected across all continents in the SWIG database. These data were either provided and quality checked by the scientists who performed the experiments or they were digitized from published articles. Data from 54 different countries were included in the database with major contributions from Iran, China, and USA. In addition to its global spatial coverage, the collected infiltration curves cover a time span of research from 1976 to late 2017. Basic information on measurement location and method, soil properties, and land use were gathered along with the infiltration data, which makes the database valuable for the development of pedo-transfer functions for estimating soil hydraulic properties, for the evaluation of infiltration measurement methods, and for developing and validating infiltration models. Soil textural information (clay, silt, and sand content) is available for 3842 out of 5023 infiltration measurements (~76%) covering nearly all soil USDA textural classes except for the sandy clay and silt classes. Information on the land use is available for 76% of experimental sites with agricultural land use as the dominant type (~40%). We are convinced that the SWIG database will allow for a better parameterization of the infiltration process in land surface models and for testing infiltration models. All collected data and related soil characteristics are provided online in *.xlsx and *.csv formats for reference, and we add a disclaimer that the database is for use by public domain only and can be copied freely by referencing it. Supplementary data are available at doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.885492. Data quality assessment is strongly advised prior to any use of this database. Finally, we would like to encourage scientists to extend/update the SWIG by uploading new data to it.

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  • 1

author list (cited authors)

  • Rahmati, M., Weihermller, L., Vanderborght, J., Pachepsky, Y. A., Mao, L., Sadeghi, S. H., ... Vereecken, H.

citation count

  • 7

complete list of authors

  • Rahmati, Mehdi||Weihermüller, Lutz||Vanderborght, Jan||Pachepsky, Yakov A||Mao, Lili||Sadeghi, Seyed Hamidreza||Moosavi, Niloofar||Kheirfam, Hossein||Montzka, Carsten||Van Looy, Kris||Toth, Brigitta||Hazbavi, Zeinab||Yamani, Wafa Al||Albalasmeh, Ammar A||Alghzawi, Ma'in Z||Angulo-Jaramillo, Rafael||Antonino, Antônio Celso Dantas||Arampatzis, George||Armindo, Robson André||Asadi, Hossein||Bamutaze, Yazidhi||Batlle-Aguilar, Jordi||Bechet, Beatrice||Becker, Fabian||Blöschl, Günter||Bohne, Klaus||Braud, Isabelle||Castellano, Clara||Cerdà, Artemi||Chalhoub, Maha||Cichota, Rogerio||Císlerová, Milena||Clothier, Brent||Coquet, Yves||Cornelis, Wim||Corradini, Corrado||Coutinho, Artur Paiva||de Oliveira, Muriel Bastista||de Macedo, José Ronaldo||Durães, Matheus Fonseca||Emami, Hojat||Eskandari, Iraj||Farajnia, Asghar||Flammini, Alessia||Fodor, Nándor||Gharaibeh, Mamoun||Ghavimipanah, Mohamad Hossein||Ghezzehei, Teamrat A||Giertz, Simone||Hatzigiannakis, Evangelos G||Horn, Rainer||Jiménez, Juan José||Jacques, Diederik||Keesstra, Saskia Deborah||Kelishadi, Hamid||Kiani-Harchegani, Mahboobeh||Kouselou, Mehdi||Jha, Madan Kumar||Lassabatere, Laurent||Li, Xiaoyan||Liebig, Mark A||Lichner, Lubomír||López, María Victoria||Machiwal, Deepesh||Mallants, Dirk||Mallmann, Micael Stolben||de Oliveira Marques, Jean Dalmo||Marshall, Miles R||Mertens, Jan||Meunier, Félicien||Mohammadi, Mohammad Hossein||Mohanty, Binayak P||Moncada, Mansonia Pulido||Montenegro, Suzana||Morbidelli, Renato||Moret-Fernández, David||Moosavi, Ali Akbar||Mosaddeghi, Mohammad Reza||Mousavi, Seyed Bahman||Mozaffari, Hasan||Nabiollahi, Kamal||Neyshabouri, Mohammad Reza||Ottoni, Marta Vasconcelos||Filho, Theophilo Benedicto Ottoni||Rad, Mohammad Reza Pahlavan||Panagopoulos, Andreas||Peth, Stephan||Peyneau, Pierre-Emmanuel||Picciafuoco, Tommaso||Poesen, Jean||Pulido, Manuel||Reinert, Dalvan José||Reinsch, Sabine||Rezaei, Meisam||Roberts, Francis Parry||Robinson, David||Rodrigo-Comino, Jesús||Filho, Otto Corrêa Rotunno||Saito, Tadaomi||Suganuma, Hideki||Saltalippi, Carla||Sándor, Renáta||Schütt, Brigitta||Seeger, Manuel||Sepehrnia, Nasrollah||Moghaddam, Ehsan Sharifi||Shukla, Manoj||Shutaro, Shiraki||Sorando, Ricardo||Stanley, Ajayi Asishana||Strauss, Peter||Su, Zhongbo||Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, Ruhollah||Taguas, Encarnación||Teixeira, Wenceslau Geraldes||Vaezi, Ali Reza||Vafakhah, Mehdi||Vogel, Tomas||Vogeler, Iris||Votrubova, Jana||Werner, Steffen||Winarski, Thierry||Yilmaz, Deniz||Young, Michael H||Zacharias, Steffen||Zeng, Yijian||Zhao, Ying||Zhao, Hong||Vereecken, Harry

Book Title

  • EGUsphere

publication date

  • March 2018