Contexts

Source	Its compartment	Consensus context	Why
agribalyse-3.2	Emissions to air → high. pop.	Environmental → Air → Ground level → Urban (>1000 people/square mile) envi-air-grle-ur10pesq	The SimaPro export vocabulary BAFU 2026 v1 already names, under the export's own compartment heading. Same ruling.
agribalyse-3.2	Emissions to air → low. pop.	Environmental → Air → Medium stack, <150 meters → Rural (<1000 people/square mile) envi-air-mest15me-ru10pesq	Same ruling as BAFU's `emissions to air / low. pop.`.
agribalyse-3.2	Emissions to air → low. pop., long-term	Environmental → Air → Long-term envi-air-lote	Same ruling as BAFU's `emissions to air / low. pop., long-term`: long-term is what the subcompartment states, and it is carried as such.
agribalyse-3.2	Emissions to air → stratosphere + troposphere	Environmental → Air → Aircraft cruise height envi-air-aicrhe	Same ruling as BAFU's `emissions to air / stratosphere + troposphere`: aircraft emissions, which is what every AGRIBALYSE row in this subcompartment is.
agribalyse-3.2	Emissions to air	Environmental → Air → Unknown envi-air-unkn	A `{processes}` export writes the compartment with the subcompartment cell empty where BAFU's ecoSpold writes `unspecified` and a method file writes `(unspecified)`. The same compartment with nothing after it, so the same ruling as both.
agribalyse-3.2	Emissions to soil → agricultural	Environmental → Ground → Agricultural envi-grou-agri	Same ruling as BAFU's `emissions to soil / agricultural` -- the pesticides, mostly, which is what an agricultural database ships.
agribalyse-3.2	Emissions to soil → forestry	Environmental → Ground → Silvicultural envi-grou-silv	Same ruling as BAFU's `emissions to soil / forestry`.
agribalyse-3.2	Emissions to soil → industrial	Environmental → Ground → Industrial envi-grou-indu	Same ruling as BAFU's `emissions to soil / industrial`.
agribalyse-3.2	Emissions to soil	Environmental → Ground → Unknown envi-grou-unkn	Soil with no land use named, the empty-cell spelling of BAFU's `emissions to soil / unspecified`. Same ruling.
agribalyse-3.2	Emissions to water → groundwater	Environmental → Water → Unconfined aquifer envi-wate-unaq	`groundwater` with nothing qualifying it is the unconfined aquifer, as it is for BAFU and Stepwise; the confined case is spelled `fossilwater` in this vocabulary and AGRIBALYSE ships none.
agribalyse-3.2	Emissions to water → groundwater, long-term	Environmental → Water → Long-term envi-wate-lote	The short-term compartment's twin, carried as long-term water for the same reason BAFU's and Stepwise's are.
agribalyse-3.2	Emissions to water → lake	Environmental → Water → Lake envi-wate-lake	Same ruling as BAFU's `emissions to water / lake`.
agribalyse-3.2	Emissions to water → ocean	Environmental → Water → Ocean envi-wate-ocea	The sea named as itself. Same ruling as BAFU's `emissions to water / ocean`.
agribalyse-3.2	Emissions to water → river	Environmental → Water → River envi-wate-rive	Same ruling as BAFU's `emissions to water / river`. AGRIBALYSE's largest water subcompartment: the field-emission models write to freshwater by name.
agribalyse-3.2	Emissions to water → river, long-term	Environmental → Water → Long-term envi-wate-lote	Same ruling as BAFU's `emissions to water / river, long-term`: the statement is about time, not the body, so it is carried as long-term water.
agribalyse-3.2	Emissions to water	Environmental → Water → Unknown envi-wate-unkn	Water with no body named, the empty-cell spelling of BAFU's `emissions to water / unspecified`. Same ruling.
agribalyse-3.2	Resources → biotic	Resource → Biotic reso-biot	Same ruling as BAFU's `resources / biotic`.
agribalyse-3.2	Resources → in air	Resource → Air reso-air	Same ruling as BAFU's `resources / in air`.
agribalyse-3.2	Resources → in ground	Resource → Ground reso-grou	Same ruling as BAFU's `resources / in ground`.
agribalyse-3.2	Resources → in water	Resource → Water → Unknown reso-wate	Same ruling as BAFU's `resources / in water`. The country-coded water intakes (`Water, river, FR`) land here too; which water they are is the water taxonomy's question, not the compartment's.
agribalyse-3.2	Resources → land	Land Use → Occupation laus-occu	Like BAFU's `resources / land`, this compartment holds occupation and transformation rows told apart only by the flow's name, so the name-prefix rules decide and this rule is the occupation fallback.
agribalyse-3.2	Resources	Resource → Ground reso-grou	No generic resource context exists; defaulting to ground resources, the same ruling as BAFU's `resources / unspecified`. The compartment's own rows (`Air`, the biomass-energy carriers) are individually questionable there and flagged for review.
bafu-2026-v1	economic issues → unspecified	Economic econ	—
bafu-2026-v1	emissions to air → high. pop.	Environmental → Air → Ground level → Urban (>1000 people/square mile) envi-air-grle-ur10pesq	Same sub-category as SimaPro 'Airborne emissions / high. pop.'
bafu-2026-v1	emissions to air → indoor	Environmental → Air → Indoor envi-air-indr-unkn	Same sub-category as SimaPro 'Airborne emissions / indoor'
bafu-2026-v1	emissions to air → low. pop.	Environmental → Air → Medium stack, <150 meters → Rural (<1000 people/square mile) envi-air-mest15me-ru10pesq	`non-urban air or from high stacks` names two situations at once -- a release in the countryside, or a release from a tall stack anywhere -- and no context can hold both. It was published as envi-air-hist15me, which says a dairy barn's ammonia left a 150-metre chimney; the other reading, Ground level + Rural, says a power-station plume was released at head height, and nothing in a flow says which it is. EF 3.1's factors settle it, and they pick neither: in all 40 (flow, method) pairs where this compartment and one of EF's narrow non-urban compartments are both characterised, EF gives this one exactly the factor it gives `Emissions to non-urban air high stack` -- particles (PM2.5) 3.01757e-06, against 1.13763e-05 non-urban close to ground and 1.62949e-06 non-urban very high stack. That compartment is envi-air-mest15me-ru10pesq here, so this keeps the rural qualifier the compartment does assert and takes the stack height EF characterises rather than the one the name suggests. What is given up: a release that really did leave a >150-metre stack is published as a sub-150-metre one, which EF's own numbers say is the smaller error. Decided once for the three lists that spell this compartment differently -- EF 3.1, ecoinvent in all five versions, and BAFU's `emissions to air / low. pop.`, SimaPro's spelling of ecoinvent v2's `low population density` -- because moving one alone would split them apart. (#411)
bafu-2026-v1	emissions to air → low. pop., long-term	Environmental → Air → Long-term envi-air-lote	Long-term is carried as a strata value (cauldron/brightway#3012), so it cannot also express the water body or the population density: this trades BAFU's spatial qualifier for the temporal one, which is where the characterisation difference is. Matches where ecoinvent and EF 3.1 both send their long-term rows, so the three meet (#274).
bafu-2026-v1	emissions to air → stratosphere + troposphere	Environmental → Air → Aircraft cruise height envi-air-aicrhe	Same sub-category as SimaPro 'Airborne emissions / stratosphere + troposphere'
bafu-2026-v1	emissions to air → unspecified	Environmental → Air → Unknown envi-air-unkn	Same sub-category as SimaPro 'Airborne emissions / (unspecified)'
bafu-2026-v1	emissions to soil → agricultural	Environmental → Ground → Agricultural envi-grou-agri	Same sub-category as SimaPro 'Emissions to soil / agricultural'
bafu-2026-v1	emissions to soil → forestry	Environmental → Ground → Silvicultural envi-grou-silv	Was envi-grou-fore. `forestry` names a management practice, not a land cover, and Forest and Silvicultural are those two different things: Forest is where the trees are, Silvicultural is the working of them. The two rows BAFU files here are `Oils, biogenic` and `Oils, unspecified` -- an oil release from forestry work, which is the practice. ecoinvent spells the same compartment `soil / forestry` and its rule has always said Silvicultural, so until now the two lists did not even agree on the rule, and BAFU's `Oils, unspecified` sat alone in a context nothing else could reach (#407). Note that agreeing on the rule is not the same as meeting: 916 of ecoinvent's 993 forestry rows are pulled out of Silvicultural by the correspondence table, which points them at EF's `Emissions to non-agricultural soil` -- see the permitted coarsening in `correspondence-context-routing.json`. Forest stays in the vocabulary for a source that means the cover.
bafu-2026-v1	emissions to soil → industrial	Environmental → Ground → Industrial envi-grou-indu	Same sub-category as SimaPro 'Emissions to soil / industrial'
bafu-2026-v1	emissions to soil → unspecified	Environmental → Ground → Unknown envi-grou-unkn	Same sub-category as SimaPro 'Emissions to soil / (unspecified)'
bafu-2026-v1	emissions to water → fossilwater	Environmental → Water → Confined aquifer with fossil groundwater envi-wate-coaqwifo	Fossil groundwater is in a confined aquifer with fossil groundwater
bafu-2026-v1	emissions to water → groundwater	Environmental → Water → Unconfined aquifer envi-wate-unaq	—
bafu-2026-v1	emissions to water → groundwater, long-term	Environmental → Water → Long-term envi-wate-lote	Long-term is carried as a strata value (cauldron/brightway#3012), so it cannot also express the water body or the population density: this trades BAFU's spatial qualifier for the temporal one, which is where the characterisation difference is. Matches where ecoinvent and EF 3.1 both send their long-term rows, so the three meet (#274).
bafu-2026-v1	emissions to water → lake	Environmental → Water → Lake envi-wate-lake	—
bafu-2026-v1	emissions to water → ocean	Environmental → Water → Ocean envi-wate-ocea	—
bafu-2026-v1	emissions to water → river	Environmental → Water → River envi-wate-rive	—
bafu-2026-v1	emissions to water → river, long-term	Environmental → Water → Long-term envi-wate-lote	Long-term is carried as a strata value (cauldron/brightway#3012), so it cannot also express the water body or the population density: this trades BAFU's spatial qualifier for the temporal one, which is where the characterisation difference is. Matches where ecoinvent and EF 3.1 both send their long-term rows, so the three meet (#274).
bafu-2026-v1	emissions to water → unspecified	Environmental → Water → Unknown envi-wate-unkn	Same sub-category as SimaPro 'Waterborne emissions / (unspecified)'
bafu-2026-v1	non material emissions → unspecified	Environmental → Other envi-othe	Non-material emissions (e.g. noise, radiation) mapped to Other environmental context; review recommended
bafu-2026-v1	resources → biotic	Resource → Biotic reso-biot	—
bafu-2026-v1	resources → in air	Resource → Air reso-air	—
bafu-2026-v1	resources → in ground	Resource → Ground reso-grou	—
bafu-2026-v1	resources → in water	Resource → Water → Unknown reso-wate	—
bafu-2026-v1	resources → land	Land Use → Occupation laus-occu	Same sub-category as SimaPro 'Raw materials / land'
bafu-2026-v1	resources → unspecified	Resource → Ground reso-grou	No generic resource context exists; defaulting to ground resources as most common resource type in BAFU. Review recommended.
ecoinvent-3.10.1	air → low population density, long-term	Environmental → Air → Long-term envi-air-lote	Moved off envi-air-grle-ru10pesq for the reasons on the identical ecoinvent-3.12 row; the subcompartment is unchanged across every release from 3.01 to 3.12, so it resolves the same way in all of them. The previous comment here read `Uses default 'Ground level' strata. Temporal differentiation is done by LCIA, not LCI`, which is the reading 3.8 and 3.12 moved away from.
ecoinvent-3.10.1	air → lower stratosphere + upper troposphere	Environmental → Air → Aircraft cruise height envi-air-aicrhe	—

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