A High-Resolution Global Map of Soil Hydraulic Properties Produced by a Hierarchical Parameterization of a Physically-Based Water Retention Model

This dataset provides global maps of mean values and standard deviations of five soil hydraulic parameters based on Kosugi water retention model in 1 km resolution for surface soils (0-5cm). Calculations are estimated from Kosugi K3 pedotransfer function model (using sand, silt, clay percentage, and bulk density as input) based on the surface soil of SoilGrids 1 km data set (Hengl et al., 2014). The dataset is in GeoTIFF format, which can be read by R, python, Matlab, etc, and most GIS software. If you use the dataset, please cite our publication ^_^ . Yonggen Zhang, Marcel G. Schaap, and Yuanyuan Zha. (2018). A High-Resolution Global Map of Soil Hydraulic Properties Produced by a Hierarchical Parameterization of a Physically-Based Water Retention Model, Water Resources Research, 54. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR023539