Soil temperature and precipitation data from GLDAS Noah is used within the ISMN quality control procedures to evaluate the plausibility of in-situ soil moisture readings (flags D03 and D05).

GLDAS version 1.0 (dataset from 2000 onwards) discontinued by end of 2016 but a new version 2.1 (dataset from 2000 until near real time) has been released. Thus, the integraion of the new GLDAS version 2.1 became necessary.

This change brought us the opportunity to integrate also soil temperature datasets in deeper layers (up to depth of two meters) for version 2.0 (datast from 1948 to 2010) and 2.1 . Within the upcoming months it is planned to reprocess the entire ISMN database due to the this development.