Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center

nasa-ornldaac-418

Global Soil Types, 1-Degree Grid (Zobler)

ABSTRACT: A global data set of soil types is available at 1-degree latitude by 1-degree longitude resolution. There are 26 soil units based on Zobler�s assessment of FAO Soil Units (Zobler, 1986). The data set was compiled as part of an effort to improve modeling of the hydrologic cycle portion of global climate models. A more extensive version of these data, including 106 soil units as well as soil texture and slope, is available from NCAR, Scientific Computing Division, Data Support Section; the more extensive data set is entitled "Staub and Rosenweig's GISS Soil & Sfc Slope, 1-Deg" [http://www.dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds770.0/]. A help file prepared by Matthews and Fung (1987) (soil1x1.help) is provided as a companion file. Image of 26 soil types available at 1-degree by 1-degree resolution. Additional documentation from Zobler�s assessment of FAO soil units is available from the NASA Center for Scientific Information

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Identified by : SOIL1X1

This dataset was released on January 01, 1999.

The time range for this dataset is January 01, 1972 to January 01, 1982.

The spatial range for this dataset is -90° to 90° latitude, and -180° to 180° longitude. map (center)

DOI : 10.3334/ORNLDAAC/418
Also known as :

• dataset oai:mercury-ops2.ornl.gov:ornldaac_418 (ornl lexicon)
• dataset oai:mercury.ornl.gov:ornldaac_418 (ornl lexicon)