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Weighted soil porosity for the Wider Caribbean

Source: Lauretta Burke and Jon Maidens and contributing authors: Mark Spalding, Philip Kramer, Edmund Green, Suzie Greenhalgh, Hillary Nobles, Johnathan Kool. 2004. Reefs at Risk in the Caribbean.

Weighted soil porosity for the Wider Caribbean

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Citation_Information:
Originator: World Resources Institute
Publication_Date: 2004
Title: Weighted soil porosity for the Wider Caribbean
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: raster digital data
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Reefs at Risk in the Caribbean
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Washington D.C., United States
Publisher: World Resources Institute
Online_Linkage: <http://reefsatrisk.wri.org>
Larger_Work_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Title:
L. Burke and J. Maidens "Reefs at Risk in the Caribbean," (Washington DC, USA: World Resources Institute, 2004)
Description:
Abstract:
Soil porosity . A polygon database on soil type (UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Soil Database, 1995) provided soil texture and porosity attributes. Soil porosity is the soil characteristic used in calculations because of its relationship with infiltration capacity of the soil. (5000-m resolution)
Purpose:
This dataset was developed for the Reefs at Risk Caribbean project (World Resources Institute, 2004 <http://reefsatrisk.wri.org>) analysis of sedimentation from land-based sources.
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Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned
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East_Bounding_Coordinate: -40.315132
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 54.967898
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Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword: soil
Theme_Keyword: porosity
Place:
Place_Keyword: caribbean
Place_Keyword: central america
Place_Keyword: south america
Place_Keyword: north america
Place_Keyword: insular caribbean
Place_Keyword: gulf of mexico
Place_Keyword: caribbean sea
Place_Keyword: gulf of mexico
Place_Keyword: western atlantic
Access_Constraints: None
Use_Constraints:
Data set is not for use in litigation. While efforts have been made to ensure that these data are accurate and reliable within the state of the art, WRI, cannot assume liability for any damages, or misrepresentations, caused by any inaccuracies in the data, or as a result of the data to be used on a particular system. WRI makes no warranty, expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty.
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Contact_Information:
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Contact_Person: GIS Lab Manager
Contact_Organization: World Resources Institute
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 10 G Street NE Suite 800
City: Washington DC
State_or_Province: District of Columbia
Postal_Code: 20002
Country: United States
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 202 729 7600
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 202 729 7775
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gislab@wri.org
Hours_of_Service: 9am - 5pm EST
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Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.0.0.535
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Citation_Information:
Originator:
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 1998. Digital Soil Map of the World and Derived Soil Properties CD-ROM. FAO, Land and Water Digital Media Series Number1, ISBN 92-5-104050-8, Rome, Italy.
Title: Soils classification for North and South America (FAO)
Online_Linkage: <http://www.fao.org/ag/agl/agll/dsmw.stm>
Type_of_Source_Media: dataCD
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: FAO_soils
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Soil ramp was derived from Soils Classification for North and South America (FAO). A lookup table was used to derive the values below from the FAO soils data "Texture" value. Originally used to derive Porosity, these values (11,12,13,14,16) were assigned to give the soil ramp more weight in the Reefs at Risk Caribbean watershed analysis.

TEXTURE_LA-->POROSITY-->SOIL_FACTO Boggish-->0.439-->14 Fine-->0.465-->16 Fine/Medium-->0.404-->11 Medium-->0.439-->14 Medium/Coarse-->0.434-->13 Coarse-->0.421-->12 Water-->0.439-->14

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: FAO_soils
Process_Date: 2003
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Row_Count: 1200
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Entity_Type_Label: soil_ramp
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Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.
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Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Value
Attribute_Definition: weighted soil porosity
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Attribute_Label: Count
Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: World Resources Institute
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: reefsatrisk@wri.org
Resource_Description: Reefs at Risk in the Caribbean Data CD
Distribution_Liability:
Although this data set has been used by the World Resources Institute, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by WRI as to the accuracy of the data and/or related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by WRI in the use of these data or related materials.
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Metadata_Date: 20050126
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Contact_Address:
Address_Type: 10 G Street, NE Suite # 800
City: Washington, DC
State_or_Province: District of Columbia
Postal_Code: 20002
Country: United States
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 202 729 7600
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 202 729 7775
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: reefsatrisk@wri.org
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