Table 2 Global and continental distribution of hydrologic soil groups (HSGs).
From: HYSOGs250m, global gridded hydrologic soil groups for curve-number-based runoff modeling
HSG coverage (%) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Coverage | A | B | C | D | A/D | B/D | C/D | D/D |
Global | 3.0 | 12.2 | 57.4 | 10.1 | 0.0 | 1.4 | 13.5 | 2.4 |
Africa | 13.8 | 24.5 | 35.3 | 16.5 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 5.3 | 3.7 |
Asia | 1.3 | 7.6 | 67.1 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 17.5 | 1.2 |
Australia | 0.0 | 3.9 | 65.2 | 21.7 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 5.9 | 3.2 |
Europe | 0.1 | 22.4 | 61.9 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 2.6 | 12.3 | 0.1 |
North America | 0.0 | 11.4 | 60.8 | 9.0 | 0.0 | 3.4 | 13.2 | 2.1 |
South America | 0.0 | 1.9 | 58.0 | 20.6 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 12.3 | 6.9 |
Oceania | 0.0 | 3.9 | 46.9 | 23.3 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 18.9 | 6.7 |