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Global Soil Organic Carbon Estimates

Collection: ESDAC : European Soil Data Centre 

Description

Global estimates of soil organic carbon stocks have been produced in the past to support the calculation of potential emissions of CO2 from the soil under scenarios of change land use/cover and climatic conditions (IPCC, 2006), but very few global estimates are presented as spatial data. For global spatial layers on soil parameters, the most recent and complete dataset is available as the Harmonized World Soil Database (HWSD). The HWSD represents a step forward towards a spatially more detailed and thematically more refined set of global soil data.

Contact

Email
ec-esdac (at) ec.europa.eu

Contributors

How to cite

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2015): Global Soil Organic Carbon Estimates. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/f931be6f-9930-4ecb-bf2a-26b1253144d4

Keywords

Climate change Harmonized World Soil Database Organic carbon

Data access

European Soil Data Centre 2.0: Soil data and knowledge in support of the EU policies
Use conditions
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International 
Access conditions
Registration required 
URL 

  • Global estimates of soil organic carbon stocks have been produced in the past to support the calculation of potential emissions of CO2 from the soil under scenarios of change land use/cover and climatic conditions (IPCC, 2006), but very few global estimates are presented as spatial data. For global spatial layers on soil parameters, the most recent and complete dataset is available as the Harmonized World Soil Database (HWSD). The HWSD represents a step forward towards a spatially more detailed and thematically more refined set of global soil data.

Publications

Publication
European Soil Data Centre 2.0: Soil data and knowledge in support of the EU policies
Panagos, P., Van Liedekerke, M., Borrelli, P., Köninger, J., Ballabio, C., Orgiazzi, A., Lugato, E., Liakos, L., Hervas, J., Jones, A. Montanarella, L. 2022. European Soil Data Centre 2.0: Soil data and knowledge in support of the EU policies. European Journal of Soil Science, 73(6), e13315. DOI: 10.1111/ejss.13315
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Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Created date
2023-06-23
Modified date
2023-06-23
Issued date
2015-05-19
Landing page
https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/global-soil-organic-carbon-estimates 
Language(s)
English
Data theme(s)
Environment
Update frequency
never
Identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/f931be6f-9930-4ecb-bf2a-26b1253144d4
Popularity
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