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Summary
This data set consists of soil moisture data from 6 Russian stations
used in the Vinnikov and Yeserkepova (1991) 50-station archive and in
the 130-station archive for use in land surface models. Data are
available for the period 1978 to 1983.

Also available are forcing and validation data (meteorological,
actinometric, and hydrological) and depth of frozen soil layer data.

Data are freely available from the Global Soil Moisture Data Bank at
in ASCII format:

http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/soil_moisture/DOWNLOAD/RUSWET-GRA...

Related URL

Link: GET DATA Description: Home Page of the Global Soil Moisture Data Bank.

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Geographic Coverage Spatial coordinates   

N: 58.0

S: 51.0

E: 101.0

W: 40.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Creator: A. Robock, K. Vinnikov, C.A. Schlosser, N.A. Speranskaya Dataset Title: Plant Available Soil Moisture from 6 Russian Stations Dataset Series Name: Plant Available Soil Moisture from 6 Russian Stations 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/ruswet.grass.6sta.r...

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1978-01-01 Stop Date: 1983-12-31

Location Keywords

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > EURASIA CONTINENT > EUROPE > EASTERN EUROPE > RUSSIA

Science Keywords

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

ISO Topic Category

FARMING GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

Platform

GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS

Ancillary Keywords

GLOBAL SOIL MOISTURE DATA BANK PLANT AVAILABLE SOIL MOISTURE RUSSIA RUSWET

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 Fees: Free

Personnel

ALAN ROBOCK Role: INVESTIGATOR 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 C. ADAM SCHLOSSER Role: INVESTIGATOR Phone: 301-902-1273 Email: adam at cola.iges.org Contact Address: Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies 4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302 City: Calverton Province or State: MD Postal Code: 20705 Country: USA NINA A. SPERANSKAYA Role: INVESTIGATOR Email: ecoshelf at pop3.rcom.ru Contact Address: State Hydrological Institute 23 Line 2 City: St. Petersburg Postal Code: 199053 Country: RUSSIA KONSTANTIN YA. VINNIKOV Role: INVESTIGATOR Phone: (301) 405-5382 Fax: (301) 314-9482 Email: kostya at atmos.umd.edu Contact Address: Department of Meteorology University of Maryland City: College Park Province or State: MD Postal Code: 20742 Country: USA

Publications/References
Robock, Alan, Konstantin Ya. Vinnikov, C. Adam Schlosser, Nina
A. Speranskaya, and Yongkang Xue, 1995: Use of midlatitude soil
moisture and meteorological observations to validate soil moisture
simulations with biosphere and bucket models. J. Climate, 8,
15-35. Abstract available from
http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/robock/robock_pub9.html

Vinnikov, K. Ya. and I. B. Yeserkepova, 1991: Soil moisture: empirical
data and model results. J. Climate, 4, 66-79.

Creation and Review Dates

Last DIF Revision Date: 2008-01-22

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