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Normally Dry (SWC_1)

DGIF baseline 2026-1, the latest. Earlier baselines: timemap.

RDF: swc_1.ttl

Name
normallyDry
Attribute
SWC Soil Wetness Condition
Definition
The soil moisture content is normally less than the field capacity.
Description
The field capacity is the amount of water held in the soil after excess gravitational or free water has drained away or moved out of the upper horizons (usually two or three days after a soaking rain). Dry soils are well drained and exhibit good to moderate internal and external drainage characteristics without any influence from impervious pans, cemented layers, or other soil horizons restricting free water movement within the soil. Dry soils do not have physical indications of saturation by water, such as strongly mottled and gleyed soil horizons, nor do they have water tables within 1.2 metres of the surface. Dry soils usually occupy upland positions in the landscape (for example: on ridges and/or upper slopes) where the depth to the water table is more than 1.2 metres. However, dry soils can also exist in many other landscape positions such as terrace slopes, upland toe slopes, upland flats, terrace flats, and flood plains that have well drained soil moisture conditions.
Accepted
2013-10-18
Allowed for

Source: DGIF 2026-1 QEA model, DGIWG. Standard: DGIWG 206-3. Licence: CC BY 4.0, © DGIWG.