Harmonized Soil Carbon Database
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"This state-of-the-art database was established by IIASA and FAO in partnership with:
- ISRIC-World Soil Information which, together with the FAO, contributed recent regional soil and terrain databases together with the WISE soil profile database;
- The European Soil Bureau Network, which provided its major new update of soil information for Europe and northern Eurasia; and
- The Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, which made available its most recent 1:1,000,000 scale Soil Map of China.
About HWSD
HWSD has two main goals:
- To increase the quantity and quality of data available by capturing data at a grid cell size of 30 arc seconds of longitude and latitude (approximately, l km);
- To harmonize and expand soil attribute information (texture, composition) with recently collected soil data."
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Suggested Data Citation
FAO/IIASA/ISRIC/ISSCAS/JRC, 2012. Harmonized World Soil Database (version 1.2). FAO, Rome, Italy and IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria.
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Hosted Climate Index Files
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Data Access
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Other Information
Type of data product
Dataset collections
Years of record
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Data time period extended
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Timestep
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Domain
Formats:
Input Data
Mixture of existing products
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Ocean or Land
Land Only
Spatial Resolution
21600x43200 [0.00833333]
,0.9 degree x 1.25 degree)
Model Resolution (reanalysis)
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Data Assimilation Method
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Model Vintage (reanalysis)
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Key Publications
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