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Harmonized Soil Carbon Database

"This state-of-the-art database was established by IIASA and FAO in partnership with:

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."

 

Years of Record

2013/09
temporal metadataID:

Domain

Global

Spatial Resolution

21600x43200 [0.00833333] | 0.9 degree x 1.25 degree)

Ocean or Land

Land Only

Vertical Levels

Surface Data Set

Input Data

Mixture of existing products

Earth system components and main variables

Biosphere, CO2

Suggested Data Citation

FAO/IIASA/ISRIC/ISSCAS/JRC, 2012. Harmonized World Soil Database (version 1.2). FAO, Rome, Italy and IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria.

Data Access: Please Cite data sources, following the data providers' instructions.

  1. HWSD Database
  2. Regridded Harmonized World Soil Database v1.2
  3. THREDDS Data Access: Regridded Harmonized World Soil Database v1.2 THREDDS Data Access

Cite this page

National Center for Atmospheric Research Staff (Eds). Last modified 08 Dec 2017. "The Climate Data Guide: Harmonized Soil Carbon Database." Retrieved from https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/harmonized-soil-carbon-database.

Acknowledgement of any material taken from this page is appreciated. On behalf of experts who have contributed data, advice, and/or figures, please cite their work as well.

Harmonized Soil Carbon Database

"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."  

2013-09/2013-09

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December 8, 2017 - 11:35am
Dennis Shea of NCAR says:

Added mention of the data set available at 0.9 cx 1.25 resolution. Plus added a few links