Global land use/land cover and soils relations from 850 to 2015 (LUSoils v.1)

This dataset links human land use and land cover types from the Land-Use Harmonization (LUH2) dataset (Lawrence et al., 2016) to four hydrologic soil groups from 850 to 2015 derived from the SoilGrids250m soils dataset (Hengl et al., 2017). These groups represent sandy soils (hydrologic group A) consisting of texture classes sand, sandy loam, and loamy sand; silty soils (hydrologic group B) consisting of loam, silty-loam, and silt; a mixed sand-silt-clay soils (hydrologic group C); and clayey soils (hydrologic group D) represented by clay, sandy-clay, clay-loam, silty-clay, and silt-clay-loam texture classes from the SoilGrids250m dataset. This dataset makes it possible to better link LULCs to soil types typically used for these activities potentially improving the simulation of water, energy and biogeochemical processes in Earth System Models. Additionally, it lays the foundation for simulating LULC impacts on soils that have different vulnerabilities and responses to human uses of soils.