Polygons representing dominant soil characteristics with percentage polygon area for each soil type. Data coverage limited to Greenland. === Original Data Source === Northern Circumpolar Soils Map, Version 1 The full data set consists of a circumpolar map of dominant soil characteristics, with a scale of 1:10,000,000, covering the United States, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, northern Europe, Russia, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan. The map was created using the Northern and Mid Latitude Soil Database. The map is in ESRI Shapefile format, consisting of 11 regional areas. Polygons have attributes that give the percentage polygon area that is a given soil type. The map shows the dominant soil of the spatial polygon unless the polygon is over 90 percent rock or ice. It also shows the proportion of polygon encompassed by the dominant soil or nonsoil. Soils include turbels, orthels, histels, histosols, mollisols, vertisols, aridisols, andisols, entisols, spodosols, inceptisols (and hapludolls), alfisols (cryalf and udalf), natric great groups, aqu-suborders, glaciers, and rocklands. QGreenland dispalys data for Greenland. Users can look to the source information for additional data. Citation: Tarnocai, C., J. Kimble, D. Swanson, S. Goryachkin, Y. M. Naumov, V. Stolbovoi, B. Jakobsen, G. Broll, L. Montanarella, A. Arnoldussen, O. Arnalds, and M. Yli-Halla. 2002. Northern Circumpolar Soils Map, Version 1. Greenland. Ottawa, Canada. Research Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. doi: https://doi.org/10.7265/eb1s-4551. [Accessed on: 2021-12-23] Citation URL: https://nsidc.org/data/GGD602/versions/1