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Since large differences occur between existing global land cover maps, current ecosystem and land-use science lacks crucial accurate data (e.g. to determine the potential of additional agricultural land available to grow crops in Africa). Volunteers are asked to review hotspot maps of ...

AQUASTAT is FAO's global water information system, developed by the Land and Water Division. It is the most quoted source on global water statistics... : http://www.fao.org/NR/WATER/aquastat/main/index.stm

The limits of aquifer-bearing sedimentary basins have been determined from a global compilation by Penwell [1]. In addition, public datasets on the depth of the basement–sediment interface [2][3] have been used to construct sediment thickness. The sediment thickness dataset is combined ...

GLDAS datasets are available from the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC)

WorldBank Open Data Catalog

GLDAS datasets are available from the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC)

GADM is a spatial database of the location of the world's administrative areas (or adminstrative boundaries) for use in GIS and similar software. Administrative areas in this database are countries and lower level subdivisions such as provinces, departments, bibhag, bundeslander, daera ...

TFDD RiverBasin Organization (catalog)

This dataset provides near-surface meteorological data for driving land surface models and other terrestrial modeling systems. It blends reanalysis data with observations and disaggregates in time and space. The dataset is currently available at 1.0 degree (plus 0.5 and 0.25 degree), 3 ...

This International Water Events Database is a searchable database documenting over 6400 historical international water relations from 1948 to 2008. Events in the database concern water as a scarce or consumable resource or as a quantity to be managed. Event information includes the bas ...

The Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database (TFDD)is a database intended for use in aiding the process of water conflict prevention and resolution. We have developed this database, a project of the Oregon State University College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, in collabor ...

International RiverCooperation andConflict IRCC

The COW Project introduced COW Wars v4.0, 1816-2007 in 2010. The paper “The COW Typology of War: Defining and Categorizing Wars (Version 4 of the Data)” by Meredith Reid Sarkees gives an overview of the COW war typology, the descriptions of the basic variables, coding rules and some of ...

The Armed Conflict Database contains statistical data, analytical reports and daily timeline updates on the political, military and humanitarian developments in 41 active and 47 archived conflicts, as well as information on selected non-state armed groups and a compilation of annual tr ...

Global Surface Summary of the Day is derived from The Integrated Surface Hourly (ISH) dataset. The ISH dataset includes global data obtained from the USAF Climatology Center, located in the Federal Climate Complex with NCDC. The latest daily summary data are normally available 1-2 days ...

Expanded Gross Domestic Product (GDP) data – Version 6.0

World Development Indicators from World Bank Open Data Portal.

The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for over 200 countries and territories over the period 1996–2015, for six dimensions of governance:Voice and AccountabilityPolitical Stability and Absence of ViolenceGovernment Effe ...

The 2017 Revision of World Population Prospects is the twenty-fifth round of official United Nations population estimates and projections that have been prepared by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat. The main resu ...

Soil water content in percent for 33 kPa and 1500 kPa suctions predictedat 6 standard depths (0, 10, 30, 60, 100 and 200 cm) at 250 m resolutionand based on a global compilation of soil profiles (USDA NCSS, AfSPDB,ISRIC WISE, EGRPR, SPADE, CanNPDB, UNSODA, SWIG, HYBRAS and HydroS) youc ...

ERA-Interim is a global atmospheric reanalysis from 1979, continuously updated in real time. The data assimilation system used to produce ERA-Interim is based on a 2006 release of the IFS (Cy31r2). The system includes a 4-dimensional variational analysis (4D-Var) with a 12-hour analysi ...

A global depth to bedrock (DTB) dataset was developedfor use in Earth System Models and other applications as well (Shangguan et al. 2017). It provides three variables, the absolute DTB in cm, the censored DTB in cm within 0¨C200 cm (here values equal to 200 cm indicate ¡°deep as or de ...

The new global erosivity map is a critical input to global and continental assessments of soil erosion by water, flood risk and natural hazard prevention. Current global estimates of soil erosion by water are very uncertain, ranging over one order of magnitude (from around 20 to over 2 ...

Workability – Harmonized Soil Water Database

Toxicity – Harmonized Soil Water Database

Nutrient Availability – Harmonized Soil Water Database

Nutrient retention capacity – Harmonized Soil Water Database

Rooting Condition – Harmonized Soil Water Database

Oxygen Availability to Roots – Harmonized Soil Water Database

Excess Salts – Harmonized Soil Water Database

The NASA Earth Exchange Global Daily Downscaled Projections (NEX-GDDP) dataset is comprised of downscaled climate scenarios for the globe that are derived from the General Circulation Model (GCM) runs conducted under the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) and across ...

Multi-Source Weighted-Ensemble Precipitation (MSWEP)