Soil Water Content (m3 m-3) from Australia, May 2014 - March 2017

The 2015–2016 El Niño event ranks as one of the most severe on record in terms of the magnitude and extent of sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies generated in the tropical Pacific Ocean. This data was used to investigate changes in soil moisture to better understand how it is impacted by climate anomalies during an El Niño event. Hourly data processed to monthly. Data collected from Cosmic Neutron Probes at variable depth averaging 28 cm that was interpolated to near-surface (0-10 cm). Site located at latitude -17.12 deg N, longitude 145.63 deg E. Data was downloaded from COSMOS data portal and is publicly available at http://cosmos.hwr.arizona.edu/. Data from this site is referenced as Australia (1) in Table 1 and Figure 4 of Solander et al.: The pantropical response of soil moisture to El Niño, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 2303–2322, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-2303-2020, 2020. This dataset was originally published on the NGEE Tropics Archive and is being mirrored on ESS-DIVE for long-term archival

2015–2016年厄尔尼诺事件是有记录以来最为严重的厄尔尼诺事件之一，其在热带太平洋海域引发的海表温度（Sea Surface Temperature, SST）异常的强度与覆盖范围均位居前列。本数据集用于探究土壤湿度的变化，以更好地理解厄尔尼诺事件期间气候异常对土壤湿度的影响。原始数据为逐小时观测值，经处理整合为月均数据集。数据采集自平均埋深28厘米的宇宙中子探测器（Cosmic Neutron Probes），并通过插值得到近地表（0-10厘米）层的土壤湿度数据。观测站点的地理坐标为南纬17.12°、东经145.63°。本数据从COSMOS数据门户下载，可通过公开链接http://cosmos.hwr.arizona.edu/获取。在Solander等人发表于《水文与地球系统科学》（Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.）2020年第24卷第2303–2322页、DOI为10.5194/hess-24-2303-2020的论文《土壤湿度对厄尔尼诺的泛热带响应》（The pantropical response of soil moisture to El Niño）中，本站点的数据被标注为澳大利亚（1），对应其表1与图4。本数据集最初发布于NGEE热带地区档案馆（NGEE Tropics Archive），目前已在ESS-DIVE进行镜像归档以实现长期保存。