Maps for Soil loss by water from climate change scenarios for Austria

The internal EJP SOIL project SERENA contributed to the evaluation of soil multifunctionality aiming at providing assessment tools for land planning and soil policies at different scales. By co-working with relevant stakeholders, the project provided co-developed indicators and associated cookbooks to assess and map them, to report both on soil degradation, soil-based ecosystem services and their bundles, under actual conditions and for climate and land-use changes, at the regional, national, and European scales.

This dataset contains the change of modelled annual soil loss rates for changing R-factor according to RCP4.5 and RPC8.5 climate scenarios, relative to modelled soil loss in the base scenario, using R-factor calculated for the 1990-2021 period. For each climate scenario, four periods were considered: 1991-2020, 2021-2040, 2041-2060 and 2061-2080. The RUSLE-based soil loss calculations were done according to the SERENA/EJP-Soil soil erosion cookbook and are described in the respective project deliverables D3.3 and D3.4.