Data from the French network "SMOSMANIA" was updated for the year 2017. Please be aware that at following stations soil moisture and/or soil temperature probes have been replaced:

• MONTAUT: all soil moisture and soil temperature probes changed on 20 September 2017
• CREON-D-ARMAGNAC: all soil moisture and soil temperature probes changed on 11 October 2017
• LAHAS: soil temperature probe at -30cm replaced on 11 October 2017
• SAINT-FELIX-DE-LAURAGAIS: soil moisture probe at -20cm replaced on 16 October 2017

We kindly thank Jean-Christophe Calvet for providing us with the new dataset and for informing us about the sensor changes.