Grid-to-Grid model estimates of soil moisture for Great Britain and Northern Ireland driven by observed data (1980 to 2011)

Gridded hydrological model soil moisture estimates on a 1km grid over Great Britain and Northern Ireland for the period Dec 1980 - Nov 2011 (units: m water/m soil). The data are provided in gridded netCDF files. There are separate files for Great Britain and Northern Ireland. To aid interpretation, two additional spatial datasets are provided: 1km x 1km grids identifying majority lake cells for a) Great Britain and b) Northern Ireland. The data were produced as part of UK-SCAPE (UK Status, Chang

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What's in it

Data offered docs-verified: soil moisture estimates (m water/m soil) · 1km majority lake cell grids (Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Coverage docs-verified: Great Britain and Northern Ireland · 1980-12-01 to 2011-11-30
Resolution docs-verified: 1000 m spatial (1km grid); temporal resolution not stated
Formats docs-verified: NetCDF
Access docs-verified: Open Government Licence (OGL); download from the EIDC catalogue record (DOI 10.5285/c9a85f7c-45e2-4201-af82-4c833b3f2c5f); no authentication indicated

Useful for

Use cases llm-inferred: Antecedent soil moisture context for flood risk assessment and FRA baselines · Historical soil moisture and wetting/drying context for water resources or drought assessments · Soil moisture baseline for ecological or habitat assessments across GB and NI
Audience llm-inferred: flood consultants · hydrologists · drainage engineers · ecologists · water resources engineers

Limitations

Constraints llm-inferred: Modelled output from the Grid-to-Grid model, not direct soil moisture observations · Historical period only (1980-2011); future climate projections are separate related records · Lake cells require interpretation using the separate majority-lake grids · Users must cite the dataset in any publication using it

Licence: Open government licence
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Last successful page check: 16/10/2026
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Provenance & evidence

Listed in ukceh-eidc public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).

Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · research sweep: sweep-2026-10-16 (ukceh-eidc)

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/documents/c9a85f7c-45e2-4201-af82-4c833b3f2c5f