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Soil hydraulic properties (SHP), particularly soil water retention capacity and hydraulic conductivity of unsaturated soils, are among the key properties that determine the hydrological functioning of terrestrial systems. Some large collections of SHP, such as the UNSODA and HYPRES databases, already exist for more than two decades. They have provided an essential basis for many studies related to the critical zone. Today, SHP can be determined in a wider saturation range and with higher resolution by combining some recently developed laboratory methods. We provide 572 high-quality SHP data sets from undisturbed samples covering a wide range of soil texture, bulk density and organic carbon content. A consistent and rigorous quality filtering ensured that only trustworthy data sets were included. The data collection contains: (i) SHP data: soil water retention and hydraulic conductivity data, determined by the evaporation method and supplemented by retention data obtained by the dew point method and saturated conductivity measurements, (ii) basic soil data: particle size distribution determined by sedimentation analysis and sieving, bulk density and organic carbon content, as well as (iii) meta data including the coordinates of the sampling locations. In addition, for each data set, we provide soil hydraulic parameters for the widely used van Genuchten/Mualem model and for the Peters-Durner-Iden (PDI) model, which accounts for non-capillary retention and conductivity. The data were originally collected to develop and test advanced models of SHP and associated pedotransfer functions. However, we expect that they will be very valuable for various other purposes such as simulation studies or correlation analyses of different soil properties to study their causal relationships. |
