@article{8569788,
  abstract     = {{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 (similar to 76%) covering nearly all soil USDA textural classes except for the sandy clay and silt classes. Information on land use is available for 76% of the experimental sites with agricultural land use as the dominant type (similar to 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.}},
  author       = {{Rahmati, Mehdi and Weihermüller, Lutz and Vanderborght, Jan and Pachepsky, Yakov A. and Mao, Lili and Sadeghi, Seyed Hamidreza and Moosavi, Niloofar and Kheirfam, Hossein and Montzka, Carsten and Van Looy, Kris and Toth, Brigitta and Hazbavi, Zeinab and Al Yamani, Wafa and Albalasmeh, Ammar A. and Alghzawi, Ma'in Z. and Angulo-Jaramillo, Rafael and Antonino, Antônio Celso Dantas and Arampatzis, George and Armindo, Robson André and Asadi, Hossein and Bamutaze, Yazidhi and Batlle-Aguilar, Jordi and Béchet, Béatrice and Becker, Fabian and Blöschl, Günter and Bohne, Klaus and Braud, Isabelle and Castellano, Clara and Cerdà, Artemi and Chalhoub, Maha and Cichota, Rogerio and Císlerová, Milena and Clothier, Brent and Coquet, Yves and Cornelis, Wim and Corradini, Corrado and Coutinho, Artur Paiva and de Oliveira, Muriel Bastista and de Macedo, José Ronaldo and Durães, Matheus Fonseca and Emami, Hojat and Eskandari, Iraj and Farajnia, Asghar and Flammini, Alessia and Fodor, Nándor and Gharaibeh, Mamoun and Ghavimipanah, Mohamad Hossein and Ghezzehei, Teamrat A. and Giertz, Simone and Hatzigiannakis, Evangelos G. and Horn, Rainer and Jiménez, Juan José and Jacques, Diederik and Keesstra, Saskia Deborah and Kelishadi, Hamid and Kiani-Harchegani, Mahboobeh and Kouselou, Mehdi and Kumar Jha, Madan and Lassabatere, Laurent and Li, Xiaoyan and Liebig, Mark A. and Lichner, Lubomír and López, María Victoria and Machiwal, Deepesh and Mallants, Dirk and Mallmann, Micael Stolben and de Oliveira Marques, Jean Dalmo and Marshall, Miles R. and Mertens, Jan and Meunier, Félicien and Mohammadi, Mohammad Hossein and Mohanty, Binayak P. and Pulido-Moncada, Mansonia and Montenegro, Suzana and Morbidelli, Renato and Moret-Fernández, David and Moosavi, Ali Akbar and Mosaddeghi, Mohammad Reza and Mousavi, Seyed Bahman and Mozaffari, Hasan and Nabiollahi, Kamal and Neyshabouri, Mohammad Reza and Ottoni, Marta Vasconcelos and Ottoni Filho, Theophilo Benedicto and Pahlavan-Rad, Mohammad Reza and Panagopoulos, Andreas and Peth, Stephan and Peyneau, Pierre-Emmanuel and Picciafuoco, Tommaso and Poesen, Jean and Pulido, Manuel and Reinert, Dalvan José and Reinsch, Sabine and Rezaei, Meisam and Roberts, Francis Parry and Robinson, David and Rodrigo-Comino, Jesús and Rotunno Filho, Otto Corrêa and Saito, Tadaomi and Suganuma, Hideki and Saltalippi, Carla and Sándor, Renáta and Schütt, Brigitta and Seeger, Manuel and Sepehrnia, Nasrollah and Sharifi Moghaddam, Ehsan and Shukla, Manoj and Shutaro, Shiraki and Sorando, Ricardo and Stanley, Ajayi Asishana and Strauss, Peter and Su, Zhongbo and Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, Ruhollah and Taguas, Encarnación and Teixeira, Wenceslau Geraldes and Vaezi, Ali Reza and Vafakhah, Mehdi and Vogel, Tomas and Vogeler, Iris and Votrubova, Jana and Werner, Steffen and Winarski, Thierry and Yilmaz, Deniz and Young, Michael H. and Zacharias, Steffen and Zeng, Yijian and Zhao, Ying and Zhao, Hong and Vereecken, Harry}},
  issn         = {{1866-3508}},
  journal      = {{EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA}},
  keywords     = {{SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY,IN-SITU,PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTIONS,SANDY SOIL,INFILTROMETER MEASUREMENTS,HYDROPHYSICAL PARAMETERS,ELECTRICAL-CONDUCTIVITY,TENSION INFILTROMETER,RING INFILTROMETERS,PHYSICAL-PROPERTIES}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{3}},
  pages        = {{1237--1263}},
  title        = {{Development and analysis of the Soil Water Infiltration Global database}},
  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1237-2018}},
  volume       = {{10}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}

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