Development and analysis of the Soil Water Infiltration Global database
Creators: name: Rahmati, Mehdi
name: Weihermüller, Lutz
name: Vanderborght, Jan
name: Pachepsky, Yakov A.
name: Mao, Lili
name: Sadeghi, Seyed Hamidreza
name: Moosavi, Niloofar
name: Kheirfam, Hossein
name: Montzka, Carsten
name: Van Looy, Kris
name: Toth, Brigitta
name: Hazbavi, Zeinab
name: Al Yamani, Wafa
name: Albalasmeh, Ammar A.
name: Alghzawi, Ma'in Z.
name: Angulo-Jaramillo, Rafael
name: Antonino, Antônio Celso Dantas
name: Arampatzis, George
name: Armindo, Robson André
name: Asadi, Hossein
name: Bamutaze, Yazidhi
name: Batlle-Aguilar, Jordi
name: Béchet, Béatrice
name: Becker, Fabian
name: Blöschl, Günter
name: Bohne, Klaus
name: Braud, Isabelle
name: Castellano, Clara
name: Cerdà, Artemi
name: Chalhoub, Maha
name: Cichota, Rogerio
name: Císlerová, Milena
name: Clothier, Brent
name: Coquet, Yves
name: Cornelis, Wim
name: Corradini, Corrado
name: Coutinho, Artur Paiva
name: De Oliveira, Muriel Bastista
name: De Macedo, José Ronaldo
name: Durães, Matheus Fonseca
name: Emami, Hojat
name: Eskandari, Iraj
name: Farajnia, Asghar
name: Flammini, Alessia
name: Fodor, Nándor
name: Gharaibeh, Mamoun
name: Ghavimipanah, Mohamad Hossein
name: Ghezzehei, Teamrat A.
name: Giertz, Simone
name: Hatzigiannakis, Evangelos G.
name: Horn, Rainer
name: Jiménez, Juan José
name: Jacques, Diederik
name: Keesstra, Saskia Deborah
name: Kelishadi, Hamid
name: Kiani-Harchegani, Mahboobeh
name: Kouselou, Mehdi
name: Kumar Jha, Madan
name: Lassabatere, Laurent
name: Li, Xiaoyan
name: Liebig, Mark A.
name: Lichner, Lubomír
name: López, María Victoria
name: Machiwal, Deepesh
name: Mallants, Dirk
name: Mallmann, Micael Stolben
name: De Oliveira Marques, Jean Dalmo
name: Marshall, Miles R.
name: Mertens, Jan
name: Meunier, Félicien
name: Mohammadi, Mohammad Hossein
name: Mohanty, Binayak P.
name: Pulido-Moncada, Mansonia
name: Montenegro, Suzana
name: Morbidelli, Renato
name: Moret-Fernández, David
name: Moosavi, Ali Akbar
name: Mosaddeghi, Mohammad Reza
name: Mousavi, Seyed Bahman
name: Mozaffari, Hasan
name: Nabiollahi, Kamal
name: Neyshabouri, Mohammad Reza
name: Ottoni, Marta Vasconcelos
name: Ottoni Filho, Theophilo Benedicto
name: Pahlavan-Rad, Mohammad Reza
name: Panagopoulos, Andreas
name: Peth, Stephan
name: Peyneau, Pierre-Emmanuel
name: Picciafuoco, Tommaso
name: Poesen, Jean
name: Pulido, Manuel
name: Reinert, Dalvan José
name: Reinsch, Sabine
name: Rezaei, Meisam
name: Roberts, Francis Parry
name: Robinson, David
name: Rodrigo-Comino, Jesús
name: Rotunno Filho, Otto Corrêa
name: Saito, Tadaomi
name: Suganuma, Hideki
name: Saltalippi, Carla
name: Sándor, Renáta
name: Schütt, Brigitta
name: Seeger, Manuel
name: Sepehrnia, Nasrollah
name: Sharifi Moghaddam, Ehsan
name: Shukla, Manoj
name: Shutaro, Shiraki
name: Sorando, Ricardo
name: Stanley, Ajayi Asishana
name: Strauss, Peter
name: Su, Zhongbo
name: Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, Ruhollah
name: Taguas, Encarnación
name: Teixeira, Wenceslau Geraldes
name: Vaezi, Ali Reza
name: Vafakhah, Mehdi
name: Vogel, Tomas
name: Vogeler, Iris
name: Votrubova, Jana
name: Werner, Steffen
name: Winarski, Thierry
name: Yilmaz, Deniz
name: Young, Michael H.
name: Zacharias, Steffen
name: Zeng, Yijian
name: Zhao, Ying
name: Zhao, Hong
name: Vereecken, Harry
Publisher: name: Katlenburg-Lindau : Copernics Publications
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Infiltrometers
subject: soil hydraulic properties
subject: infiltration
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::550 | Geowissenschaften

description: In this paper, we present and analyze a novel global database of soil infiltration measurements, the Soil Water Infiltration Global (SWIG) database. In total, 5023 infiltration curves were collected across all continents in the SWIG database. These data were either provided and quality checked by the scientists who performed the experiments or they were digitized from published articles. Data from 54 different countries were included in the database with major contributions from Iran, China, and the USA. In addition to its extensive geographical coverage, the collected infiltration curves cover research from 1976 to late 2017. Basic information on measurement location and method, soil properties, and land use was gathered along with the infiltration data, making the database valuable for the development of pedotransfer functions (PTFs) for estimating soil hydraulic properties, for the evaluation of infiltration measurement methods, and for developing and validating infiltration models. Soil textural information (clay, silt, and sand content) is available for 3842 out of 5023 infiltration measurements (∼76%) covering nearly all soil USDA textural classes except for the sandy clay and silt classes. Information on land use is available for 76ĝ€% of the experimental sites with agricultural land use as the dominant type (∼40%). We are convinced that the SWIG database will allow for a better parameterization of the infiltration process in land surface models and for testing infiltration models. All collected data and related soil characteristics are provided online in ∗.xlsx and ∗.csv formats for reference, and we add a disclaimer that the database is for public domain use only and can be copied freely by referencing it. Supplementary data are available at https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.885492 (Rahmati et al., 2018). Data quality assessment is strongly advised prior to any use of this database. Finally, we would like to encourage scientists to extend and update the SWIG database by uploading new data to it.