The dataset contains data on soil moisture and soil temperature of six locations in Lower Franconia that are characteristic of their respective natural areas and their anthropogenic use for the time period of 2018 to 2024. In addition meteorological parameters were recorded at four locations. The data is available in time steps of 15 minutes. Soil moisture was measured as volumetric water content (VWC %) in two to three soil profiles per site at different depths. Meter 10 HS and meter 5TM sensors were used as soil moisture and soil temperature sensors. The meteorological parameters were recorded using Pessl iMetos 2 and iMetos 3.3 stations.
The measuring stations are located in Regic Anthrosols on red sandstone in a vineyard near Bürgstadt (Odenwald) and on Luvisols in the loess area near Herchsheim (Ochsenfurter Gau) under arable land use. At the transition from Muschelkalk to Keuper, the stations are located in Obbach (Wern-Lauer-Platte), where Cambisols under arable use are present, and in the forest of the Sailershausen university forest (Hesselbacher Waldland), the investigations are carried out in Calcic Luvisols. In the forest there are also the stations in Oberrimbach (Steigerwald) with Cambisols from sandstone-Keuper and in Willmars (Rhön) with Cambisols from red sandstone. The observation period included the three-year drought from 2018 to 2020, the year 2021 with an average weather pattern and the drought year 2022.
The long-term monitoring was carried out as part of the dissertation “Impact of climate change on characteristic soils in Lower Franconia with consideration of soil hydrological monitoring data (2018 to 2022)” by Julian Krause. This was accompanied by extensive field and laboratory analyses of the basic pedological parameters of the soil profiles and the sites.
The dataset was generated in the frame of the EU ERDF project “BigData@Geo” and the FMER project “REKLINEU”.