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Temporary Dataset Download: Soil Carbon Risk Index

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21-February-2026

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Download the data file and follow the instructions in the REAME.

Type of datasets - Tabular and GeoTiff. Three files:

  • VNIRSOCfractions.csv:  continuous: soil organic carbon fractions predicted by visible near-infrared spectroscopy (particulate organic carbon, OC_pom_g_kg, mineral-associated organic carbon, OC_sc_g_kg, and their sum: OC_fractions_g_kg). The file also contains two LUCAS soil survey ID columns (POINT_ID, sample.ID), the LUCAS 2009 texture data (Clay, Sand, Silt [%]) and the coordinates in WGS84.
  • MAOCsaturation.tif: continuous; mineral-associated organic carbon saturation (%) (51 to 100).
  • SOCriskindex.tif:  integer; 4 discrete classes coded by integers 1 to 4. Classes 1-4 correspond to the 'High hazard', 'High risk', 'No hazard', 'No risk' classes, respectively.

 

Breure, T.S., De Rosa, D., Panagos, P., Cotrufo, M.F., Jones, A., Lugato, E. (2025). Revisiting the soil carbon saturation concept to inform a risk index in European agricultural soils. Nature Communications,16, Article number: 2538,  DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-57355-y

Joint Research Centre - European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC)
ID 124798
Date - Time Sat, 02/07/2026 - 19:41
Name of User Nasir Mehmood Khan
Organization Scotland's Rural College (SRUC)
Type of Organization University
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E-mail Nasir.Khan@sruc.ac.uk
Purpose I am doing my PhD on studying the impact of arable-ley rotations on SOC and its fractions and trying to use my siter as test bed to further contribute in this SOC risk dataset which may help to develop practices that alter the risk factors by lowering these SOC losses esp. MAOC
Notes

When making reference to the ESDAC

  • 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
  • Panagos P., Van Liedekerke M., Jones A., Montanarella L., “European Soil Data Centre: Response to European policy support and public data requirements”; (2012) Land Use Policy, 29 (2), pp. 329-338. doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.07.003
  • European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC), esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu, European Commission, Joint Research Centre