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Summary

The Illinois Soil Moisture Data Set consists of soil moisture observations
from 19 stations in Illinois from 1981 to August 1996, measured with
the neutron proble technique wth gravimetric observations. The
Illinois data was prodiced by the Illinois State Water Survey.

The Illinois soil moisture data is part of the Global Soil Moisture Data
Bank ... and is freely available via ftp in ascii or GrADS format from:

ftp://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pub/soil_moisture/ILLINOIS/soilm/

or ftp climate.envsci.rutgers.edu
login as: anonymous
Password: your email address
cd pub/soil_moisture/ILLINOIS/soilm

Ancillary Illinois field capacity, soil types and wilting level data
are also available from the Global Soil Moisture Data Bank.

Related URL

Link: View Related Information Description: Home Page of the Global Soil Moisture Data Bank Link: View Related Information Description: Home Page of the Illinois State Water Survey

Geographic Coverage Spatial coordinates   

N: 43.0

S: 37.0

E: -87.0

W: -91.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Creator: S. Hollinger Dataset Title: Illinois Soil Moisture Data Dataset Series Name: Illinois Soil Moisture Data Dataset Release Date: 1999 Dataset Release Place: NJ Dataset Publisher: Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University Online Resource: http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/soil_moisture/illinois.html

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1981-01-01 Stop Date: 1996-08-31

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > ILLINOIS

Science Keywords

AGRICULTURE > SOILS > SOIL CLASSIFICATION AGRICULTURE > SOILS > SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENT LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL CLASSIFICATION LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENT

ISO Topic Category

FARMING GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

Platform

GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS

Instrument

NEUTRON PROBE

Ancillary Keywords

FIELD CAPACITY GLOBAL SOIL MOISTURE DATA BANK IOWA WILTING LEVEL

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Originating Center

RU/GSMDB

Data Center

Global Soil Moisture Data Bank, Department of Environmental Science, Cook College, Rutgers University Data Center URL: http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/soil_moisture/index.html Dataset ID: Global_Soil_Moisture_Data_Bank Data Center Personnel Name: ALAN ROBOCK Phone: 732-932-9800 x6222 Fax: 732-932-8644 Email: robock at envsci.rutgers.edu Contact Address: Department of Environmental Sciences Rutgers University 14 College Farm Road City: New Brunswick Province or State: New Jersey Postal Code: 08901-8551 Country: USA

Distribution

Distribution Media: ftp Distribution Format: ASCII, GrADS Fees: Free

Personnel

STEVEN HOLLINGER Role: INVESTIGATOR Phone: (217) 244-2939 Email: hollingr at uiuc.edu Contact Address: Illinois State Water Survey University of Illinois 2204 Griffith Drive City: Champaign Province or State: IL Postal Code: 61820 Country: USA

Publications/References

Hollinger, Steven E., and Scott A. Isard, 1994: A soil moisture
climatology of Illinois. J. Climate, 7, 822-833.

Creation and Review Dates

Last DIF Revision Date: 1999-04-29

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