Choptank Experimental Watershed Soil Moisture Network

Metadata Updated: December 2, 2025

A network of soil moisture and soil temperature profiles as well as solar radiation and precipitation gages are distributed throughout the central region of the DelMarVa peninsula to capture variability of these parameters to give a broad understanding of agricultural conditions in this domain. Soil profile data is captured at depths of 5, 10, 20, and 50 cm below the surface and recorded hourly at locations on the edges of agricultural fields, not inside the production fields.

Resources in this dataset:

Resource Title: Choptank Station #1 File name: CT_01_2014-2020.csv Description: Soil Moisture data
Resource Title: Choptank Station #2 File name: CT_02_2014-2020.csv Description: Choptank Watershed Station #2
Resource Title: Choptank Station #3 File name: CT_03_2014-2020.csv Description: Soil Moisture Data
Resource Title: Choptank Station #4 File name: CT_04_2014-2020.csv Description: Soil Moisture Data
Resource Title: Choptank Station #5 File name: CT_05_2014-2020.csv Description: Soil Moisture Data
Resource Title: Choptank Station #6 File name: CT_06_2014-2020.csv Description: Soil Moisture Data
Resource Title: Choptank Station #7 File name: CT_07_2014-2020.csv Description: Soil Moisture Data
Resource Title: Choptank Station #8 File name: CT_08_2014-2020.csv Description: Soil Moisture Data
Resource Title: Choptank Station #9 File name: CT_09_2014-2020.csv Description: Soil Moisture Data
Resource Title: Choptank Station #10 File name: CT_10_2014-2020.csv Description: Soil Moisture Data
Resource Title: Choptank Station Locations File name: Station_Locations.csv Description: Latitude and Longitude of stations in WGS84
Resource Title: Readme for Choptank Stations File name: Readme for Choptank Stations. docx

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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Dates

Metadata Created Date	April 10, 2024
Metadata Updated Date	December 2, 2025

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Additional Metadata

Resource Type	Dataset
Metadata Created Date	April 10, 2024
Metadata Updated Date	December 2, 2025
Publisher	Agricultural Research Service
Maintainer	Michael Cosh
Identifier	10.15482/USDA.ADC/1528550
Data Last Modified	2025-11-21
Public Access Level	public
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License	https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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Temporal	2014-05-22/2014-05-22

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