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A China data set of soil properties for land surface modeling

  1. Wei Shangguan1,
  2. Yongjiu Dai1,*,
  3. Baoyuan Liu2,
  4. Axing Zhu3,
  5. Qingyun Duan1,
  6. Lizong Wu4,
  7. Duoying Ji1,
  8. Aizhong Ye1,
  9. Hua Yuan2,
  10. Qian Zhang2,
  11. Dongdong Chen2,
  12. Ming Chen2,
  13. Jianting Chu2,
  14. Youjun Dou2,
  15. Jianxia Guo2,
  16. Haiqin Li2,
  17. Junjia Li2,
  18. Lu Liang2,
  19. Xiao Liang1,
  20. Heping Liu2,
  21. Shuyan Liu2,
  22. Chiyuan Miao1,
  23. Yizhou Zhang2

Article first published online: 6 MAY 2013

DOI: 10.1002/jame.20026

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Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

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Shangguan, W. et al. (2013), A China data set of soil properties for land surface modeling, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 5, doi:10.1002/jame.20026.

Author Information

  1. 1

    College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

  2. 2

    School of Geography, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

  3. 3

    Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

  4. 4

    Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China

*Corresponding author: Y. Dai, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, No. 19, Xinjiekouwai St., Beijing 100875, China. (yongjiudai@bnu.edu.cn)

Publication History

  1. Article first published online: 6 MAY 2013
  2. Accepted manuscript online: 12 MAR 2013 11:58AM EST
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 7 MAR 2013
  4. Manuscript Revised: 18 FEB 2013
  5. Manuscript Received: 20 OCT 2012

Funded by

  • Natural Science Foundation of China . Grant Numbers: 41205037 , 40875062 , 40225013
  • R&D Special Fund for Nonprofit Industry . Grant Numbers: GYHY201206013 , GYHY200706025
  • Key International S and T Cooperation Project . Grant Number: 2008DFA22180

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Keywords:

  • land surface modeling;
  • soil attribute database;
  • soil polygon linkage;
  • china soil characteristics data set

[2] A comprehensive 30×30 arc-second resolution gridded soil characteristics data set of China has been developed for use in the land surface modeling. It includes physical and chemical attributes of soils derived from 8979 soil profiles and the Soil Map of China (1:1,000,000). We used the polygon linkage method to derive the spatial distribution of soil properties. The profile attribute database and soil map are linked under the framework of the Genetic Soil Classification of China which avoids uncertainty in taxon referencing. Quality control information (i.e., sample size, soil classification level, linkage level, search radius and texture) is included to provide “confidence” information for the derived soil parameters. The data set includes 28 attributes for 8 vertical layers at the spatial resolution of 30×30 arc-seconds. Based on this data set, the estimated storage of soil organic carbon in the upper 1 m of soil is 72.5 Pg, total N is 6.6 Pg, total P is 4.5 Pg, total K is 169.9 Pg, alkali-hydrolysable N is 0.55 Pg, available P is 0.03 Pg, and available K is 0.61 Pg. These estimates are reasonable compared with previous studies. The distributions of soil properties are consistent with common knowledge of Chinese soil scientists and the spatial variations over large areas are well represented. The data set can be incorporated into land models to better represent the role of soils in hydrological and biogeochemical cycles in China.

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