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Historical nitrogen fertilizer use in China from 1952 to 2018
Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of
Meteorological Disasters (CIC-FEMD), Nanjing University of Information
Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Institute of Ecology, School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing
University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Jing Liu
Institute of Ecology, School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing
University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Giri Kattel
School of Geographical Sciences, Nanjing University of Information
Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Department of Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne,
Parkville, Melbourne, Australia
Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing,
China
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We developed a 5 km annual nitrogen (N) fertilizer use dataset in China, covering the period from 1952 to 2018. We found that previous FAO-data-based N fertilizer products overestimated the N use in low, but underestimated in high, cropland coverage areas in China. The new dataset has improved the spatial distribution and corrected the existing biases, which is beneficial for biogeochemical cycle simulations in China, such as the assessment of greenhouse gas emissions and food production.
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