Climoor Forest Daily Plot-Level Soil Temperature and Moisture Data, 2016-2021

September 2016 to December 2021 daily averages of soil temperature and moisture from nine experimental plots in Clocaenog Forest, NE Wales. The data, collected by the Environmental Information Data Centre, extends previous time series and includes control plots, artificially warmed plots, and rainfall-excluded plots. It is intended to monitor environmental conditions for interpreting the effects of climate change manipulations on ecosystem processes.

Use Cases

• Modeling soil temperature dynamics at different depths based on daily average measurements at 5 cm and 20 cm.
• Analyzing the impact of experimental drought on soil volumetric water content during the growing season.
• Comparing ecosystem responses between control, warmed, and rainfall-excluded experimental plots.
• Extending long-term environmental monitoring time series for the Climoor field site.

Strengths

• Data covers a five-year period from September 2016 to December 2021, extending a long-term experiment.
• Includes data from nine distinct experimental plots with three different treatment types (control, warming, drought).
• Specifies sensor types (T107 for temperature, CS616 for moisture) and data collection methodology (minute intervals averaged to half-hourly).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Data may reflect geographic and experimental bias inherent to a single forest field site.

Provenance

Source

Environmental Information Data Centre

Collection Method

Automated collection from T107 and CS616 sensors at the Climoor field site, with data logged in minute intervals and averaged to half-hourly values.

Time Range

September 2016 to December 2021

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-19 07:34:31.259058; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Clocaenog Forest, North East Wales, United Kingdom