Northern Circumpolar Soils Map, Version 1

• Main Authors: National Snow and Ice Data Center, Research Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
• Subjects: Canada; Greenland; glacier*; Iceland
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/sha256:1a07b918d5befeda8ea15e9ca3ffae42cc2adf4dea202a836445c7ecfb32aaab

This data set consists of a circumpolar map of 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. The map is in ESRI Shapefile format, consisting of 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.Data are available via ftp.