Soil Water Content (m3 m-3), October 2011 - May 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. This dataset contains soil water content hourly data processed to monthly from October 2011 to May 2017 in a single CSV file. Data was collected from Cosmic Neutron Probes at variable depth averaging 15 cm that was interpolated to near-surface (0-10 cm). Site is located at latitude 0.28 deg N, longitude 36.87 deg E. Data was downloaded from the The COsmic-ray Soil Moisture Observing System (COSMOS) soil moisture data network and is publicly available at http://cosmos.hwr.arizona.edu/. Data from this site is referenced as Kenya 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