Dominant soil characteristics, with a scale of 1:10,000,000, covering the United States, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, northern Europe, Russia, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan. The map was created using the Northern and Mid Latitude Soil Database. 11 regional areas. Polygons have attributes that give the percentage polygon area that is a given soil type. The map shows the dominant soil of the spatial polygon unless the polygon is over 90 percent rock or ice. It also shows the proportion of polygon encompassed by the dominant soil or nonsoil. Soils include turbels, orthels, histels, histosols, mollisols, vertisols, aridisols, andisols, entisols, spodosols, inceptisols (and hapludolls), alfisols (cryalf and udalf), natric great groups, aqu-suborders, glaciers, and rocklands. Contributers: US Department of Agriculture, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the University of Copenhagen Institute of Geography, the European Soil Bureau, the University of Manchester Institute of Landscape Ecology, MTT Agrifood Research Finland, and the Agricultural Research Institute Iceland have shared data and expertise in order to develop the Northern and Mid Latitude Soil Database (Cryosol Working Group, 2001).
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Northern Circumpolar Soils Map
Additional Info
- Project: Northern and Mid Latitude Soil Database (Cryosol Working Group, 2001)
- Dataset Title: Northern Circumpolar Soils Map
- Data Series: Northern and Mid Latitude Soil Database (Cryosol Working Group, 2001)
- Orginator: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
- Institution Type: gov't - federal
- Author: Tarnocai, C., et al.
- Distributor: National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
- Reports: http://nsidc.org/data/docs/fgdc/ggd602_map_cryosols/index.html
- Data Type: GIS
- Délı̨nę District: yes
- K’asho Got’ı̨nę District: yes
- Tulı́t’a District: yes
- Time Period: [2001-2002]
- Source Date: 2002
- Version: NA
- Access Constraints: open download - no login
- Use Constraints: http://nsidc.org/about/use_copyright.html
- Completion Status: complete
- Maintenance: unknown
- Maintenance Frequency: unknown
- Metadata Available: [see online]
- Metadata Contact: http://nsidc.org/forms/contact.html
- Spatial Extent: Circumpolar
- Traditional Knowledge: no
- Wildlife: no
- Habitat: yes
- Keywords: soil; drainage; vegetation; basemap;
- Data Category: vector
- Format: shp
- Feature Type: polygon
- Feature Count: NA
- Dataset Descriptive Name: ggd602_soils_canada
- File Name: ggd602_soils_canada.shp
- Scale: 1:10,000,000
- Projection: North Pole Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area
- Downloadable: yes
- Downloadable Format: gz
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