Global process-based characterization factors of soil carbon depletion for life cycle impact assessment

The dataset includes all the Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) Characterization Factors (CFs) for the Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) depletion indicator produced by Teixeira, R.F.M., Morais, T.G., Domingos, T. 2021. Global process-based characterization factors of soil carbon depletion for life cycle impact assessment.

The dataset is divided by type of CF. The results (files) included in each file is:

• SOC_dynamics.zip: includes all the used SOC dynamics for calculate the CFs (it includes transitions for crop, forest, grassland and urban LU classes).

• Raster_Background_Occupation.zip: includes spatial data (rasters at “tif” format) for Occupation CFs per aggregated land use flow according Table 1 of the paper at country-level.

For example, the raster “Occ_background_Agriculture.tif” has the CFs for the land use class “Agriculture”.

• Raster_background_Transformation.zip: includes spatial data (rasters at “tif” format) for Transformation CFs per aggregated land use flow according Table 1 of the paper at country-level.
• Table_CFs_background.xlsx: Includes, at Excel table, the Occupation and Transformation Characterization Factors that were included in “Raster_background_ Occupation.zip” and “Raster_background_Transformation.zip”
• Raster_Foreground_Occupation.zip: includes spatial data (rasters at “tif” format) for Occupation CFs per unique land use flow according Table 2 of the paper at unique homogenous territorial unit (about 17,200 unique region).

For example, the raster “Occ_foreground_Irrigated_Potatoes.tif” has the CFs for the land use class “Irrigated potatoes”.

• Raster_ Foreground _Transformation.zip: includes spatial data (rasters at “tif” format) for Transformation CFs per unique land use flow according Table 2 of the paper at unique homogenous territorial unit (about 17,200 unique region).
• Table_CFs_foreground.xlsx: Includes, at Excel table, the Occupation and Transformation Characterization Factors that were included in “Raster_Foreground_Occupation.zip” and “Raster_ Foreground _Transformation.zip”
• LCIA_OpenLCA_file.zip: includes the Background Characterization Factors to be imported as an LCIA methods for the Product Environmental Footprint database in OpenLCA software