c3b400ea-f603-4bc2-9225-5f1abfa9fe65 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:20:49 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Mean and variability of topsoil organic carbon concentrations across Great Britain at 1km resolution from an ensemble of eight digital soil maps 2022-12-09 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/c3b400ea-f603-4bc2-9225-5f1abfa9fe65 10.5285/c3b400ea-f603-4bc2-9225-5f1abfa9fe65 doi: Feeney, C.J., Cosby, B.J., Robinson, D.A., Thomas, A.R.C., Emmett, B.A., Henrys, P.A. (2022). Mean and variability of topsoil organic carbon concentrations across Great Britain at 1km resolution from an ensemble of eight digital soil maps. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/c3b400ea-f603-4bc2-9225-5f1abfa9fe65 This dataset presents the mean topsoil (0-15 cm) organic carbon concentration (g kg-1) and measures of its variability at 1 km resolution across Great Britain. The mean and variability metrics were calculated from an ensemble of eight previously published digital soil maps applied to all 1 km grid cells across GB where data were available from all eight maps. Four of the maps were generated from the 2007 UKCEH Countryside Survey topsoil data, two of which are available online to use. Two maps are from the International Soil Reference and Information Centre, ISRIC: SoilGrids250m v.1 (2017) and v.2 (2020) which are free to download. Two maps are from the EU’s Joint Research Centre (JRC): the OCTOP map of 2004 and LUCAS map of 2014 which are both free to download. The dataset comes in the form of a seven-band raster tiff file, with each band representing the following: 1. Mean predicted soil organic carbon concentration (g kg-1) of all eight maps at each 1 km grid cell 2. Standard deviation (g kg-1) of all eight maps at each 1 km grid cell 3. Coefficient of variation (unitless; the standard deviation divided by the mean) at each 1 km grid cell 4. Signal to noise ratio (unitless; the mean divided by the standard deviation) at each 1 km grid cell 5. Name of the map that deviates the most from the ensemble mean at each 1 km grid cell 6. Relative size (%) of the largest difference from the ensemble mean at each 1 km grid cell 7. Relative size of the largest difference from the ensemble mean expressed as the number of standard deviations exceeded at each 1 km grid cell This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/c3b400ea-f603-4bc2-9225-5f1abfa9fe65 Feeney, C.J. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2175-1842 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Cosby, B.J. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5645-3373 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Robinson, D.A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7290-4867 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Thomas, A.R.C. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4929-7285 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Emmett, B.A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2713-4389 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Henrys, P.A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4758-1482 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk owner NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Feeney, C.J. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact Soil theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Great Britain Soil Organic Carbon Topsoil Countryside Survey UK-SCAPE otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Feeney, C.J., Cosby, B.J., Robinson, D.A., Thomas, A.R.C., Emmett, B.A., Henrys, P.A. (2022). Mean and variability of topsoil organic carbon concentrations across Great Britain at 1km resolution from an ensemble of eight digital soil maps. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/c3b400ea-f603-4bc2-9225-5f1abfa9fe65 grid 1000 English utf8 environment geoscientificInformation -8.648 1.768 49.864 60.861 TIFF NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/c3b400ea-f603-4bc2-9225-5f1abfa9fe65 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/c3b400ea-f603-4bc2-9225-5f1abfa9fe65.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Topsoil organic carbon concentrations were summarised at every 1 km grid cell where predictions exist from all eight of the compared digital soil maps. Most of the maps used to generate our dataset reflect the topsoil conditions of approximately the year, 2007 at a spatial resolution of 1 km; however, two maps at 250 m resolution were derived from a global soils database, and one map (1 km) from a European database, that include much older topsoil samples. A second map (500 m resolution) developed for Europe covers soil samples taken in 2009. The first step before comparing the eight maps was to harmonise them to the same coordinate reference system (EPSG: 27700 / British National Grid) and grid resolution (1 km). Reprojection to British National Grid was done using tools in ArcMap, with all eight maps aligned to the Ordnance Survey (OS) 1 km grid system. Resampling to 1 km grids was undertaken on the two ISRIC maps and two JRC maps (see “Description”) by taking the means of all grid cells that occurred within each 1 km grid represented by the OS 1 km grid system. All layers have been checked to ensure they conform to the same spatial extent, resolution, and coordinate reference system. The mean and standard deviation layers contain only positive values up to a maximum value of 550 g kg-1 (the theoretical upper limit of soil organic carbon concentration).