Soil Moisture datasets (Hess-2018-546)

The datasets presented serves as supplementary material for the manuscript titled “Evaluation of soil moisture from CCAM-CABLE simulation, satellite-based models estimates and satellite observations: Skukuza and Malopeni flux towers region case study”, submitted to the journal of hydrology and earth system sciences (https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2018-546). The following datasets are provided to reproduce the graphics on the manuscript and the detailed descriptions of the various datasets are provided in the manuscript. The scripts for reproducing the plots may be found at https://rpubs.com/FKhosa/hess-2018-546. The datasets are grouped in different folders for different sections of the manuscript.
1. Datasets describing the study region (Section 2) are contained in the folder “Study-region”
• Koeppen climate types (“Koeppen-Geiger.csv”): this dataset is sourced from http://koeppen-geiger.vu-wien.ac.at/present.htm and is used to represent the climate types for the study region (Figure 2a).
• Elevation/Topographic data (“Topography-25km.tif”): this dataset is sourced from https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/fliers/06mgg01.html and is used to represent the topography for the study region (Figure 2b).
• Soil type’s data (“soil-types.csv”): this dataset is sourced from https://soilgrids.org and is used to represent the soil types for the study region (Figure 2c).
2. Various soil moisture datasets discussed and analyse in Section 3 namely;
• In situ observations: datasets for the two evaluation sites (i.e., Skukuza and Malopeni) may be requested from [e-mail], parts of the dataset for Skukuza can be accessed from FLUXNET.
• CCAM-CABLE: this dataset is available on request from [e-mail]. Aggregated data is partly provided in the “MI” folder.
• ESA: this dataset is available on request from the custodians of the data (www.esa-soilmoisture-cci.org/).
• GLEAM: this dataset is available on request from the custodians of the data (www.gleam.eu).
3. Plotting data for Figure 3 is contained in the folder “Seasonal plots”, data sets for producing Figure 4a and 4b are contained in the folder “Taylor & NMB”. Datasets for plotting Figure 6 is contained in the folder “Boxplots”. Mutual information is calculated using data in the folder “MI” subfolder “data-for-computation” resulting datasets for plotting are contained in the subfolder “data-for-plotting”.

所提供的数集旨在作为学术论文《基于CCAM-CABLE模拟、基于卫星模型的土壤湿度估算与卫星观测：Skukuza和Malopeni通量塔区域案例研究》的补充材料。该论文已提交至《水文学与地球系统科学》期刊（https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2018-546）。以下数集提供以复现论文中的图表，以及各数集的详细描述均可在论文中查阅。复现图表的脚本可于https://rpubs.com/FKhosa/hess-2018-546获取。数集根据论文的不同章节分置于不同的文件夹中。

1. 描述研究区域（第2节）的数集包含在“研究区域”文件夹中。
• 科本气候类型（“Koeppen-Geiger.csv”）：本数集来源于http://koeppen-geiger.vu-wien.ac.at/present.htm，用于表征研究区域的气候类型（图2a）。
• 高程/地形数据（“Topography-25km.tif”）：本数集来源于https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/fliers/06mgg01.html，用于表征研究区域的地形（图2b）。
• 土壤类型数据（“soil-types.csv”）：本数集来源于https://soilgrids.org，用于表征研究区域的土壤类型（图2c）。

2. 第3节中讨论和分析的多种土壤湿度数集，包括；
• 原位观测：两个评估站点（即Skukuza和Malopeni）的数集可通过[e-mail]获取，Skukuza部分数集可通过FLUXNET访问。
• CCAM-CABLE：本数集可通过[e-mail]申请获取。部分汇总数据提供在“MI”文件夹中。
• ESA：本数集可通过数据保管人获取（www.esa-soilmoisture-cci.org/）。
• GLEAM：本数集可通过数据保管人获取（www.gleam.eu）。

3. 第3章图表的数集包含在“季节性图表”文件夹中，生成图4a和4b的数集包含在“Taylor & NMB”文件夹中。图6的数集包含在“箱线图”文件夹中。通过“MI”子文件夹中的“data-for-computation”数据计算出的互信息，其结果数集包含在“data-for-plotting”子文件夹中。