CHESS & JULES: Daily Meteorological and Soil Moisture Estimates for UK Sites, 2013-2017

2013-2017 daily estimates for meteorological variables and soil moisture at COSMOS-UK monitoring network sites. The dataset includes temperature range, humidity, precipitation, radiation, wind speed, potential evapotranspiration, and soil moisture content across four depth layers. It was produced by the Environmental Information Data Centre using the CHESS and JULES models.

Use Cases

• Modeling potential evapotranspiration based on daily meteorological variables.
• Analyzing soil moisture profiles based on estimates from four distinct depth layers.
• Validating land surface models using co-located meteorological and soil moisture simulations.
• Studying climate and hydrological trends at specific UK monitoring sites from 2013 to 2017.

Strengths

• Covers a 5-year period from 2013 to 2017.
• Provides data for 14 distinct meteorological and soil moisture variables.
• Includes soil moisture estimates for four specific soil depth layers (0.0-0.1 m, 0.1-0.35 m, 0.35-1 m, 1-3 m).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Environmental Information Data Centre

Collection Method

Model-derived estimates from the CHESS and JULES systems at COSMOS-UK site locations.

Time Range

2013-2017

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-19 07:37:31.576246; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom (COSMOS-UK monitoring network sites)