EUSEDcollab: a network of data from European catchments to monitor net soil erosion by water

• Published in: Scientific data Vol. 10; no. 1; p. 515
• Main Authors: Matthews, Francis, Verstraeten, Gert, Borrelli, Pasquale, Vanmaercke, Matthias, Poesen, Jean, Steegen, An, Degré, Aurore, Rodríguez, Belén Cárceles, Bielders, Charles, Franke, Christine, Alary, Claire, Zumr, David, Patault, Edouard, Nadal-Romero, Estela, Smolska, Ewa, Licciardello, Feliciana, Swerts, Gilles, Thodsen, Hans, Casalí, Javier, Eslava, Javier, Richet, Jean-Baptiste, Ouvry, Jean-François, Farguell, Joaquim, Święchowicz, Jolanta, Nunes, João Pedro, Pak, Lai Ting, Liakos, Leonidas, Campo-Bescós, Miguel A., Żelazny, Mirosław, Delaporte, Morgan, Pineux, Nathalie, Henin, Nathan, Bezak, Nejc, Lana-Renault, Noemí, Tzoraki, Ourania, Giménez, Rafael, Li, Tailin, Zuazo, Víctor Hugo Durán, Bagarello, Vincenzo, Pampalone, Vincenzo, Ferro, Vito, Úbeda, Xavier, Panagos, Panos
• Format: Journal Article Web Resource
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 04.08.2023; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Research; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 704/2151/215; 704/242; Computer Science Applications; Data Descriptor; Earth Sciences; Education; Engineering, computing & technology; Environmental sciences & ecology; Humanities and Social Sciences; Information Systems; Ingénierie, informatique & technologie; Library and Information Sciences; Life sciences; Metadata; multidisciplinary; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Sciences de l’environnement & écologie; Sciences du vivant; Sciences of the Universe; Soil erosion; Statistics and Probability; Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty; Time series
• ISSN: 2052-4463; 2052-4463
• DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02393-8

As a network of researchers we release an open-access database (EUSEDcollab) of water discharge and suspended sediment yield time series records collected in small to medium sized catchments in Europe. EUSEDcollab is compiled to overcome the scarcity of open-access data at relevant spatial scales for studies on runoff, soil loss by water erosion and sediment delivery. Multi-source measurement data from numerous researchers and institutions were harmonised into a common time series and metadata structure. Data reuse is facilitated through accompanying metadata descriptors providing background technical information for each monitoring station setup. Across ten European countries, EUSEDcollab covers over 1600 catchment years of data from 245 catchments at event (11 catchments), daily (22 catchments) and monthly (212 catchments) temporal resolution, and is unique in its focus on small to medium catchment drainage areas (median = 43 km 2 , min = 0.04 km 2 , max = 817 km 2 ) with applicability for soil erosion research. We release this database with the aim of uniting people, knowledge and data through the European Union Soil Observatory (EUSO).