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This data set describes select global soil parameters from the Harmonized World Soil Database (HWSD) v1.2, including additional calculated parameters such as area weighted soil organic carbon (kg C per m2), as high resolution NetCDF files. These data were regridded and upscaled from the Harmonized World Soil Database v1.2

The HWSD provides information for addressing emerging problems of land competition for food production, bio-energy demand and threats to biodiversity and can be used as input to model global carbon cycles.

The data are presented as a series of 27 NetCDF v3/v4 (*.nc4) files at 0.05-degree spatial resolution, and one NetCDF file regridded to the Community Land Model (CLM) grid cell resolution (0.9 degree x 1.25 degree) for the nominal year of 2000.

Product Summary

Platforms
NOT APPLICABLE
Instruments
NOT APPLICABLE
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2000-01-01 to 2000-12-31
Data Partner
THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC) (ORNL_DAAC)
Concept ID
C2216863856-ORNL_CLOUD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
28
Processing Level
4
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Carbon ,
Cation Exchange Capacity ,
Organic Matter

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Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

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Wieder, W. R., Boehnert, J., Bonan, G. B., & Langseth, M. (2014). Regridded Harmonized World Soil Database v1.2 (Version 1). ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1247 Date Accessed: 2026-05-18

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Impacts of altitudinal ecohydrological dynamic changes on water balance under warming climate in a watershed of the Qilian Mountains, China Huang, Richao, Chen, Xi, Hu, Qi, Jiang, Shanshan, Dong, Jianzhi Carbon, Cation Exchange Capacity, Organic Matter
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Drought frequency, conservancies, and pastoral household well-being Boone, Randall, Lesorogol, Carolyn, Galvin, Kathleen Carbon, Cation Exchange Capacity, Organic Matter
Effects of Straw Amendment in Combination with Synthetic N Fertilizer Addition on N<SUB>2</SUB>O, N<SUB>2</SUB>, and Their Stoichiometric Ratios in Three Different Agro-Ecosystems Bizimana, Fiston, Dong, Wenxu, Timilsina, Arbindra, Raseduzzaman, Md, Li, Xiaoxin, Zhang, Yuming, Hu, Chunsheng Carbon, Cation Exchange Capacity, Organic Matter
Emergent temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon driven by mineral associations Georgiou, Katerina, Koven, Charles D., Wieder, William R., Hartman, Melannie D., Riley, William J., Pett-Ridge, Jennifer, Bouskill, Nicholas J., Abramoff, Rose Z., Slessarev, Eric W., Ahlstrom, Anders, Parton, William J., Pellegrini, Adam F. A., Pierson, Derek, Sulman, Benjamin N., Zhu, Qing, Jackson, Robert B. Carbon, Cation Exchange Capacity, Organic Matter
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Climate change may cause oasification or desertification both: an analysis based on the spatio-temporal change in aridity across India Maity, Subhra Sekhar, Shaw, Rohit Prasad, Maity, Rajib Carbon, Cation Exchange Capacity, Organic Matter
Climate-induced tree-mortality pulses are obscured by broad-scale and long-term greening Yan, Yuchao, Piao, Shilong, Hammond, William M., Chen, Anping, Hong, Songbai, Xu, Hao, Munson, Seth M., Myneni, Ranga B., Allen, Craig D. Carbon, Cation Exchange Capacity, Organic Matter, Biogeochemical Cycles
Carbon sequestration potential and its main drivers in soils under alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) Xu, Yi, Duan, Xun, Wu, Yini, Huang, Huarong, Fu, Tongcheng, Chu, Houkun, Xue, Shuai Carbon, Cation Exchange Capacity, Organic Matter
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Mapping every adult baobab (Adansonia digitata L.) across the Sahel and relationships to rural livelihoods Huang, Ke, Brandt, Martin, Hiernaux, Pierre, Tucker, Compton J., Rasmussen, Laura Vang, Reiner, Florian, Li, Sizhuo, Kariryaa, Ankit, Mugabowindekwe, Maurice, den Braber, Bowy, Small, Jennifer, Sino, Scott, Fensholt, Rasmus Carbon, Cation Exchange Capacity, Organic Matter
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An Evaluation of Future Climate Change Impacts on Key Elements of the Water-Carbon Cycle Using a Physics-Based Ecohydrological Model in Sanchuan River Basin, Loess Plateau Yuan, Yujie, Zhu, Xueping, Gao, Xuerui, Zhao, Xuehua Carbon, Cation Exchange Capacity, Organic Matter
An hourly and localized optimization method for soil fugitive dust emission inventory based on machine learning Song, Lilai, Li, Zhen, Zhang, Jinqiu, Li, Hu, Wang, Chenchu, Bi, Xiaohui, Dai, Qili, Feng, Yinchang Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Carbon, Cation Exchange Capacity, Organic Matter
Acceleration of phosphorus weathering under warm climates Guo, Licheng, Xiong, Shangfa, Mills, Benjamin J. W., Isson, Terry, Yang, Shiling, Cui, Jingyi, Wang, Yongda, Jiang, Lei, Xu, Zhifang, Cai, Chunfang, Deng, Yinan, Wei, Guangyi, Zhao, Mingyu Carbon, Cation Exchange Capacity, Organic Matter
A global dataset of terrestrial evapotranspiration and soil moisture dynamics from 1982 to 2020 Zhang, Kun, Chen, Huiling, Ma, Ning, Shang, Shasha, Wang, Yunquan, Xu, Qinglin, Zhu, Gaofeng Carbon, Cation Exchange Capacity, Organic Matter
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