Level A Pan Europe Soils, E-HYPE 2.5

Describes soil type as one of 5 soils classes: Forest soil, Agricultural soil, Other and > 500 m (shallow), Rice soil, Organic soil. This is a temporary solution as soil-type from the European soils database (ESDB) had problems describing soil types over northern Europe. Soil type was instead inferred from land use class from the land use data provided on this site based on the assumption that landuse generally follows soil suitability. Data is presented as the percentage of each soil-type within each subbasin (i.e. subbasin level) OR the percentage of each soil-type distributed over the subbasin's total catchment (including basins upstream of the local subbasin) area of E-HYPE2.5 (i.e. catchment level, mean area 215 km2). Original data source: Based on the landuse data provided on this site. Rice fields according toCLC2000 and GLC2000 Asia, and average subbasin elevation according to HYDOSHEDS/HYDRO1K Tools for repurposing: WHIST. Data formate: Table (Excel file) with unique subID which could be linked to the shapefile EHYPE_polygons_v2pt5.shp.