A 3&thinsp;h, 1&thinsp;km surface soil moisture dataset for the contiguous United States from 2015 to 2023

Yang, Haoxuan; Yang, Jia; Ochsner, Tyson E.; Krueger, Erik S.; Xu, Mengyuan; Zou, Chris B.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3391-2025

Articles | Volume 17, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3391-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3391-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 7

Data description paper

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16 Jul 2025

Data description paper |

| 16 Jul 2025

A 3 h, 1 km surface soil moisture dataset for the contiguous United States from 2015 to 2023

Haoxuan Yang, Jia Yang, Tyson E. Ochsner, Erik S. Krueger, Mengyuan Xu, and Chris B. Zou

Data sets

Data release for a 3-hour, 1-km surface soil moisture dataset for the contiguous United States from 2015 to 2023 Haoxuan Yang et al. https://doi.org/10.5066/P13CCN69

A 3-hour, 1-km surface soil moisture dataset in Continental United States Haoxuan Yang et al. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.28188011

Model code and software

A 3-hour, 1-km surface soil moisture dataset in Continental United States Haoxuan Yang et al. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.28188011

Short summary

We developed a 3 h, 1 km surface soil moisture dataset for the contiguous United States from 2015 to 2023 using the spatio-temporal fusion method. This dataset effectively combines the distinct advantages of two long-term surface soil moisture datasets, which is also the first hourly-level 1 km soil moisture dataset at the continental US scale. The new dataset could provide new insight into the fast changes in soil moisture along with drought and wet spell occurrences.