556 old-growth Swiss forest sites provide measured and simulated soil organic carbon stocks. Data includes environmental variables like elevation, precipitation, temperature, and soil properties from the Swiss forest soil inventory. The dataset was last updated on January 1, 2024.
Use Cases
- Model soil organic carbon stocks based on environmental variables like elevation and climate.
- Analyze relationships between forest types and measured SOC stocks.
- Validate simulated carbon stocks from the Yasso20-model against field measurements.
- Study the impact of soil properties on carbon sequestration in mineral soil up to 100 cm depth.
Strengths
- Includes data from 556 distinct forest sites.
- Combines measured SOC stocks with simulated values from the Yasso20-model.
- Integrates multiple environmental variables: elevation, precipitation, temperature, and soil properties.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to nasa_earthdata.
Provenance
- Source
- ENVIDAT
- Collection Method
- Data from the Swiss forest soil inventory.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2024-01-01 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Switzerland