This repository contains the dataset of the global maps of top- and subsoil organic carbon turnover times. More details can refer to the paper: Zhang, L., Yang, L., Crowther, T.W., Zohner, C.M., Doetterl, S., Heuvelink, G.B.M., Wadoux, A.M.J.-C., Zhu, A.-X., Pu, Y., Shen, F., Ma, H., Zou, Y., Zhou, C., 2025. Mapping global distributions, environmental controls, and uncertainties of apparent topsoil and subsoil organic carbon turnover times. Earth System Science Data 17, 2605–2623. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2605-2025 The code used for the analyses in this study is available at: https://github.com/leizhang-geo/global_soil_carbon_turnover_time.git For questions and more details of our study please contact the author: Lei Zhang (张磊) LZ's Homepage: https://leizhang-geo.github.io