Contexts

Source	Its compartment	Consensus context	Why
EF 3.1	Resources → Resources from biosphere → Renewable energy resources from biosphere	Resource → Biotic reso-biot	Set context_iri manually.
EF 3.1	Resources → Resources from biosphere → Renewable material resources from biosphere	Resource → Biotic reso-biot	Set context_iri manually.
EF 3.1	Resources → Resources from ground → Non-renewable element resources from ground	Resource → Ground reso-grou	Set context_iri manually.
EF 3.1	Resources → Resources from ground → Non-renewable energy resources from ground	Resource → Ground reso-grou	Set context_iri manually.
EF 3.1	Resources → Resources from ground → Non-renewable material resources from ground	Resource → Ground reso-grou	Set context_iri manually.
EF 3.1	Resources → Resources from ground → Renewable energy resources from ground	Resource → Ground reso-grou	Set context_iri manually.
EF 3.1	Resources → Resources from ground → Renewable material resources from ground	Resource → Ground reso-grou	Set context_iri manually.
EF 3.1	Resources → Resources from water → Non-renewable element resources from water	Resource → Water → Unknown reso-wate	Set context_iri manually.
EF 3.1	Resources → Resources from water → Non-renewable material resources from water	Resource → Water → Unknown reso-wate	Set context_iri manually.
EF 3.1	Resources → Resources from water → Renewable energy resources from water	Resource → Water → Unknown reso-wate	Set context_iri manually.
EF 3.1	Resources → Resources from water → Renewable material resources from water	Resource → Water → Unknown reso-wate	Set context_iri manually.
GreenDelta	Emission to air → high population density	Environmental → Air → Ground level → Urban (>1000 people/square mile) envi-air-grle-ur10pesq	184 of their own. Their words are ecoinvent 2's for what ecoinvent 3 calls `urban air close to ground`, and BAFU's `emissions to air / high. pop.` places 251 rows in the same context.
GreenDelta	Emission to air → low population density	Environmental → Air → Medium stack, <150 meters → Rural (<1000 people/square mile) envi-air-mest15me-ru10pesq	135 of their own; BAFU's `low. pop.` places 256 in the same context. Not a rural ground-level context: the compartment names two situations, a release in the countryside or one from a tall stack, and this is the reading ecoinvent's own `non-urban air or from high stacks` already has.
GreenDelta	Emission to air → low population density, long-term	Environmental → Air → Long-term envi-air-lote	8 of their own; BAFU's `low. pop., long-term` places 46. Long-term is the context here rather than a qualifier on the rural one.
GreenDelta	Emission to air → lower stratosphere + upper troposphere	Environmental → Air → Aircraft cruise height envi-air-aicrhe	20 of their own 21 land here; the odd one is a flow whose ecoinvent row was merged into an unspecified-air flow, which is a fact about that row and not about the compartment. BAFU's `stratosphere + troposphere` places 24.
GreenDelta	Emission to air → unspecified	Environmental → Air → Unknown envi-air-unkn	192 of their own flows that resolve by uuid land here, and no other context.
GreenDelta	Emission to soil → agricultural	Environmental → Ground → Agricultural envi-grou-agri	265 of their own; BAFU's places 292.
GreenDelta	Emission to soil → forestry	Environmental → Ground → Silvicultural envi-grou-silv	One of their own, and BAFU's 2. Silvicultural is this list's word for the forest soil both of them call forestry.
GreenDelta	Emission to soil → industrial	Environmental → Ground → Industrial envi-grou-indu	26 of their own; BAFU's places 48.
GreenDelta	Emission to soil → unspecified	Environmental → Ground → Unknown envi-grou-unkn	31 of their own; BAFU's places 42.
GreenDelta	Emission to water → fossil-	Environmental → Water → Confined aquifer with fossil groundwater envi-wate-coaqwifo	One flow. BAFU's `fossilwater` places 2 rows in the confined-aquifer context, which is what fossil water is.
GreenDelta	Emission to water → fresh water	Environmental → Water → Surface water envi-wate-suwa	EF 3.1's own answer. Their package implements EF, and every one of the 7,217 flows EF files under `Emissions to water / Emissions to fresh water` is published here. One of their own flows resolves in this compartment and agrees. Their vocabulary keeps `fresh water` and `surface water` apart and ours does not, so both rows point at one context: a substance they state twice reaches one flow twice, which the collision check already reports.
GreenDelta	Emission to water → ground water	Environmental → Water → Unconfined aquifer envi-wate-unaq	35 of their own; BAFU's `groundwater` places 66. An unconfined aquifer is the groundwater a release reaches.
GreenDelta	Emission to water → ground water, long-term	Environmental → Water → Long-term envi-wate-lote	5 of their own; BAFU's places 47.
GreenDelta	Emission to water → lake	Environmental → Water → Lake envi-wate-lake	BAFU's `emissions to water / lake`, 50 rows, all here. Same reasoning as `river`.
GreenDelta	Emission to water → ocean	Environmental → Water → Ocean envi-wate-ocea	74 of their own; BAFU's places 133.
GreenDelta	Emission to water → river	Environmental → Water → River envi-wate-rive	None of their own resolve in this compartment -- ecoinvent 3 does not have it -- so the evidence is BAFU's, the same SimaPro lineage: 374 rows, all in `Environmental -> Water -> River`.
GreenDelta	Emission to water → river, long-term	Environmental → Water → Long-term envi-wate-lote	BAFU's `river, long-term`, 6 rows. Long-term is the context, as it is for groundwater and for air.
GreenDelta	Emission to water → surface water	Environmental → Water → Surface water envi-wate-suwa	8 of their own. See the `fresh water` row: the two compartments meet here.
GreenDelta	Emission to water → unspecified	Environmental → Water → Unknown envi-wate-unkn	90 of their own; BAFU's places 195.
GreenDelta	Resource → biotic	Resource → Biotic reso-biot	One of their own; ecoinvent 3.12's places 9 of 9.
GreenDelta	Resource → in ground	Resource → Ground reso-grou	67 of their own; ecoinvent 3.12's `natural resource / in ground` places 129 of 131.
stepwise-2006-1.09	Air → (unspecified)	Environmental → Air → Unknown envi-air-unkn	2,227 flows, the method's largest compartment. A method file writes the compartment bare where a process export writes `Emissions to air`, and Stepwise states no stratum, population density or indoor class for any row -- its air factors are one number per substance. Unspecified air is what that is. Agrees with BAFU's `emissions to air / unspecified` and with the SimaPro phrasebook's `air / (unspecified)`.
stepwise-2006-1.09	Economic → (unspecified)	Economic econ	6 flows: wages, value added, operating surplus, and the two net-tax rows, all of them in EUR2003. Stepwise carries life-cycle costing alongside the environmental categories, which is what this dimension is for.
stepwise-2006-1.09	Raw → (unspecified)	Resource → Ground reso-grou	134 flows, and a mixed compartment: SimaPro's `Raw` is every resource, every land occupation and every uptake from air under one heading. What is left once the 41 `Occupation, ` rows are taken out by the name rule below, and the carbon-dioxide-from-air and standing-wood rows by the per-flow rules, is metals, ores, fossil carriers and the energy accounting fictions -- all of them in the ground. Same ruling, for the same compartment under a different spelling, as BAFU's `resources / unspecified`. The SimaPro phrasebook deliberately answers this one with a dimension and no medium, which the lookup can do and a build cannot: a row whose context does not resolve stops the run.
stepwise-2006-1.09	Soil → (unspecified)	Environmental → Ground → Unknown envi-grou-unkn	1,281 flows. Soil is `Ground` in this vocabulary, and with no land use named it is the unspecified one. Same ruling as BAFU's `emissions to soil / unspecified`.
stepwise-2006-1.09	Soil → agricultural	Environmental → Ground → Agricultural envi-grou-agri	830 flows -- the pesticides, mostly. The method's terrestrial ecotoxicity category is deliberately left without soil factors 'to avoid double-counting with the impact category Nature occupation', so these rows are what remains of Stepwise's interest in soil, and it is agricultural soil. Same ruling as BAFU's `emissions to soil / agricultural`.
stepwise-2006-1.09	Water → (unspecified)	Environmental → Water → Unknown envi-wate-unkn	1,739 flows. Water with no body named, which is the compartment BAFU's `emissions to water / unspecified` and the phrasebook's `water / (unspecified)` both already answer.
stepwise-2006-1.09	Water → groundwater	Environmental → Water → Unconfined aquifer envi-wate-unaq	1,725 flows. `groundwater` with nothing qualifying it is the unconfined aquifer, as it is for BAFU and in the phrasebook -- the confined case is spelled `fossilwater` in this vocabulary and Stepwise ships none.
stepwise-2006-1.09	Water → groundwater, long-term	Environmental → Water → Long-term envi-wate-lote	1,725 flows, the short-term compartment's twin. The method's own documentation says what the distinction is: 'For short-term (<100 years) and long-term (>100 years) emissions to groundwater, characterisation factors are respectively 0.0004 and 0.0000006 times the characterisation factors for the same emissions to surface water'. That is a statement about time rather than about the body, and long-term is carried as the water body here for the same reason it is for BAFU's `groundwater, long-term`.
stepwise-2006-1.09	Water → ocean	Environmental → Water → Ocean envi-wate-ocea	14 flows, all of them in `Ecotoxicity, aquatic`. The sea named as itself.
stepwise-2006-1.09	Water → river	Environmental → Water → River envi-wate-rive	14 flows, the ocean rows' freshwater counterparts in the same category.

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