3D Soil Hydraulic Database of Europe at 1 km and 250 m resolution
Created on 25/4/2025
A consistent spatial soil hydraulic database at 7 soil depths up to 2 m calculated for Europe based on SoilGrids250m and 1 km datasets and pedotransfer functions trained on the European Hydropedological Data Inventory. Saturated water content, water content at field capacity and wilting point, saturated hydraulic conductivity and Mualem-van Genuchten parameters for the description of the moisture retention, and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity curves have been predicted. The derived 3D soil hydraulic layers (EU-SoilHydroGrids ver1.0) can be used for environmental modelling purposes at catchment or continental scale in Europe. Currently, only EU-SoilHydroGrids provides information on the most frequently required soil hydraulic properties with full European coverage up to 2 m depth at 250 m resolution.
JRC
Wiley Online Library
English
Soil
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CC BY 4.0
Open access. With registration and delayed access
MAP
1/1/2017
1/1/2017
4/2025 - 4/2025
GeoTIFF
26
Geographical coverage
Europe, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, United KingdomKeywords
SoilHydraulic Properties
Variables included : 5
| Name | Unit |
|---|---|
| Saturated water content | NA |
| Water content at field capacity and wilting point | NA |
| Saturated hydraulic conductivity | NA |
| Mualem-van Genuchten parameters (moisture retention) | NA |
| Unsaturated hydraulic conductivity curves |