UMBRIA

Country	Italy
Stations	13
Organisation	Civil Protection Functional Centre Research Institute for Geo-Hydological Protection Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerca (CNR), Perugia
Contacts	Nicola Berni
Website	http://www.cfumbria.it/ http://hydrology.irpi.cnr.it/
Official References	Brocca, L., Hasenauer, S., Lacava, T., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Wagner, W., Dorigo, W., Matgen, P., Martínez-Fernández, J., Llorens, P., Latron, J., Martin, C., Bittelli, M. (2011). Soil moisture estimation through ASCAT and AMSR-E sensors: an intercomparison and validation study across Europe. Remote Sensing of Environment, 115, 3390-3408, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2011.08.003; Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Morbidelli, R. (2009). Antecedent wetness conditions based on ERS scatterometer data. Journal of Hydrology, 364 (1-2), 73-87, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.10.007; Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2008). On the estimation of antecedent wetness condition in rainfall-runoff modelling. Hydrological Processes, 22 (5), 629-642, https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.6629;
Abstract	The soil moisture network of the Civil Protection Functional Centre (CFD Umbria), together with the Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerca (abbreviated CNR-IRPI) is located near the city of Perugia at Lake Trasimeno in the middle of Italy and consists of 7 stations. Four of these seven stations come from the old Network CRN_IRPI which are now part of the UMBRIA Network. One station became operational in the year 2002 and is providing soil moisture measurements at 3 layers and additionaly precipitation and air temperature observations. Other 3 stations, became operational in the year 2007 collect soil moisture measurements at 3 depths. The observed variables are sampled each hour.
Variables measured	air temperature precipitation soil moisture
Depths of soil moisture measurements	0.05 - 0.15 m 0.15 - 0.25 m 0.25 - 0.35 m 0.35 - 0.45 m 0.45 - 0.55 m
Soil Moisture sensors used	EnviroSMART EnviroSCAN ThetaProbe ML2X
Data availability	from 2002-10-09 to 2017-12-31

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