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Temporary Dataset Download: Soil organic carbon losses with lateral transfer to the oceans

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Including land management in a European carbon model with lateral transfer to the oceans

Download the data file which includes the following:

a) The net gains of carbon due to the lateral movements (as in Figure 3a) - Filename: BalanceLateral_tCperYear_gains.tif;

b) The net losses of carbon due to the lateral movements (as in figure 3b) - - Filename:  BalanceLateral_tCperYear_losses.tif

c) the input of carbon to the non-eroded soil carbon (SC) pool (as in Figure 6a) - Filename: NEM_LitterInput.tif;

d) the output of non-eroded SC due to microbial respiration (as in figure 6b) - - Filename: NEM_Respiration.tif;

e) Amount of the non-eroded SC that is lost due to erosion (as in figure 6c) This is also the only input to the eroded SC pool. - Filename: NEM_Eroded.tif;

f) Gross gains of eroded SC due to the lateral movements (as in figure 6d) - Filename:  EM_LateralGain.tif;

g) Gross losses of eroded SC due to the lateral movements (as in figure 6e) - Filename: EM_LateralLoss.tif;

h) Output from the eroded SC due to microbial respiration (as in figure 6f) - Filename: EM_Respiration.tif;

In addition, we have a timeseries dataset: the net gains of carbon due to the lateral movements. This spreadsheet containing the total erosion, delivery and redistribution of carbon and sediments

Fendrich, A.N., Philippe Ciais, Panagos, P., Martin, P., Carozzi, M., Bertrand Guenet, Emanuele Lugato, 2024. Including land management in a European carbon model with lateral transfer to the oceans. Environmental Research 245, 118014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.118014

Joint Research Centre - European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC)
ID 133386
Date - Time Mon, 09/14/2026 - 01:35
Name of User Ruolei Zeng
Organization University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Type of Organization University
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E-mail zeng0208@umn.edu
Purpose Academic, non-commercial research on spatially robust machine learning for soil organic carbon lateral transfer in Europe. We will evaluate geographic generalization and safe adaptation methods. The data will not be redistributed and will be cited according to its licence.
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