Soil Water Content (m3 m-3) located in the Dominican Republic , February 2013 - December 2016

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 daily data that has been processed to monthly from February 2013 to December 2016. Data represents near-surface soil moisture (depth of 0-10 cm) at a latitude of 17.90 N, and longitude of -71.67 E. Data was downloaded from the PBO soil moisture data network and is publicly available at http://cires1.colorado.edu/portal/index.php?product=soil_moisture. Data from this site is referenced as Dominican Republic (2) 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