Pesticide mixtures in soil: a global outlook

This data set includes four global maps of
aggregated pesticides: (1) the total pesticide content in the topsoil of global
croplands expressed in the unit of mg/kg-soil; (2) the number of pesticides
detected in the topsoil; (3) the pesticide leaching rate to below the root zone
expressed in the unit of mg/m2/year; and (4) the number of pesticides
that exceeded a leaching rate of 1 mg/m2/year. This data set also
includes two zip folders containing the topsoil residue and leaching rate of
individual pesticide substances in nine different cropping systems. The surface
area of the nine cropping systems can be obtained from the PEST-CHEMGRIDS
dataset (Maggi et al., 2019).

A
zip folder containing an example of input files required to run the model is
attached together with this data set. Details of the methods used to produce
these maps and the tabulated data can be found in Tang F.H.M and Maggi F. (2021).
Pesticide mixtures in soil: a global outlook, Environmental
Research Letters.