The updated and improved method for water scarcity impact assessment in LCA, AWARE2.0

This dataset includes the AWARE2.0 characterization factors as documented in the article "The updated and improved method for water scarcity impact assessment in LCA, AWARE2.0" (submitted to the Journal of Industrial Ecology). After publication of the article, this repository will be updated with the respective DOIs and the version set to 1.0.0. Note that since the article is not published yet, the CFs have to be interpreted as preliminary values.

Content:

AWARE20_Native_CFs_geospatial.gpkg: Geospatial file containing the AWARE2.0 basins as polygons with associated monthly CFs

AWARE20_Native_CFs_geospatial.kmz: Version of AWARE20_Native_CFs_geospatial.gpkg for GoogleEarth

AWARE20_Native_CFs.xlsx: AWARE2.0 CFs on basin level (monthly and annual) and associated water consumption used for weighting

AWARE20_Intermediate_Variables.xlsx: Intermediate Variables from the calculation of the AWARE2.0 CFs, such as the longterm average natural and actual water availability, the AMDs, the EFRs, etc.

AWARE20_Countries_and_Regions.xlsx: AWARE2.0 CFs aggregated according to geography definitions of GLAM and ecoinvent (version 2.5, applicable to ecoinvent 3.10) 

AWARE20_Subnational_Resolution.xlsx: AWARE2.0 CFs aggregated to subnational resolution, using the GADM dataset version 4.1 (https://gadm.org/old_versions.html)

figures_AWARE_AWARE20_comparison_all_basins.zip: Figures comparing CFs, AMDs, Natural and Actual Availability, EWRs, and EFR coefficients between AWARE and AWARE2.0, for each of the 8149 basins individually. Consult these figures for a visual impression of how and why CFs might have changed between AWARE and AWARE2.0.

Changes:

v0.0.3:

use bug-fixed WaterGAP2.2e data from Sept 2023

added country and subnational aggregations

changed "NoData" to "NotDefined" in the tables

added gridcell pHWC to intermediate variables

corrected table of water consumption data without post-processing in "Intermediate_Variables"