Climoor: Hourly Micro-Meteorological Data from a Upland Moorland Climate Experiment

Hourly data from 11 September 2008 to 31 December 2013 records air temperature, soil temperature at 5cm and 20cm depths, and soil moisture from the Climoor experimental field site in Clocaenog Forest, North-East Wales. The dataset originates from a long-running climate manipulation experiment that used automatic roof technology to warm plots by 0.5–1°C and simulate repeated summer droughts from July to September annually. This data supports modeling the impact of warming and drought on Atlantic upland moorlands, with identical experimental sites replicated across five other European countries.

Use Cases

• Modeling ecosystem responses to controlled warming based on the 0.5–1°C temperature manipulation.
• Analyzing soil moisture dynamics under repeated summer drought conditions simulated annually.
• Comparing micro-meteorological trends across European sites as part of the CLIMOOR consortium project.
• Calibrating or validating hydrological or ecological models with high-frequency soil temperature data from two depths.

Strengths

• Provides a continuous, multi-year time series from a controlled, long-term climate manipulation experiment.
• Captures high-frequency (hourly) measurements of key variables (air/soil temperature, soil moisture) relevant to climate impact studies.
• Data is part of a coordinated European consortium (CLIMOOR), enabling cross-site comparative analysis.

Limitations

• The dataset has been withdrawn from all listed platforms, indicating potential access or archival issues.
• Key metadata such as row count, file size, license, and author are unavailable across all sources.
• The temporal coverage ends in 2013, limiting analysis of more recent climate trends.

Provenance

Source

Climoor field experiment at Clocaenog forest, NE Wales, established under the EU CLIMOOR consortium project.

Collection Method

Collected via automated sensors at experimental plots using roof technology for temperature and drought manipulations.

Time Range

11 September 2008 to 31 December 2013

Freshness

The metadata was last updated on 11 March 2026, but the underlying data collection ended on 31 December 2013.

Geography

Primary site: Clocaenog Forest, North-East Wales, United Kingdom. Replica sites in Denmark, Netherlands, Sardinia (Italy), Hungary, and Catalonia (Spain).