It’s safe to say that last month’s call for microclimate data for our growing SoilTemp database was a success. Almost two hundred new datasets, ranging from just a few sensors to a whopping 32 thousand per dataset, poured into our new SoilTemp email address. All that for a grand total of….

MORE THAN 50.000 NEW TIME SERIES!

Now, we are putting everything into force to get all that data processed and added to our database. But I already wanted to provide a sneak-peak of the scope of that new data, through this graph of number of time series per country*.

The tally contains a total of 53 countries, in itself likely to substantially increase the number of countries we had already in SoilTemp 1.0 (over 70). Maybe at some point, there will not be any comments anymore about our database not being truly global!

Now, there is a ‘little ommission in that previous graph: the new submissions from Belgium (where I am based). There, we made use of an army of citizens to collect that dataset of 32.000 time series mentioned above, an achievement that obviously skews our graph a little bit when added.

Now, if you think you have some fantastic data lying around and are sad you missed our deadline, don’t worry! There is a latebreaking deadline on October 20th, for those who are collecting their data over this northern hemispheric summer, and for those who only learn about the initiative now. All data still welcome by then to be included in our upcoming database publication!

*Only for those who followed exactly the submission format, as no further processing has been done, so this is a bit of an underestimation!