『Abstract
　Weathering rates of base cations are crucial in critical load calculations and assessments of sustainable forestry. The weathering rate on a single site with detailed geological data can be modelled using the PROFILE model. For environmental assessments on a regional scale, the weathering rates for sites are scaled into regional maps. The step from sites to regional level requires focus on the spatial variation of weathering rates. In this paper, a method is presented by which weathering rates are calculated for 25589 Swedish sites with total elemental analysis for the soil. Based on a part of the results, a methodology for creating area covering maps by geostatistical analysis and kriging is described. A normative reconstruction model was used to transform total elemental analysis to mineralogy. Information from the Swedish Forest Inventory database and other databases were used to derive texture and other important information for the sites, e.g. climate, deposition and vegetation data. The calculated weathering rates show a regional pattern that indicates possibilities for interpolation of data in large parts of Sweden. Geostatistical analysis of an area in southern Sweden shows different properties for different base cations. Kriging was performed for potassium to demonstrate the method. It was concluded that different base cations and different regions have to be analysed separately, in order to optimise the kriging method.

Keywords: base cations; geostatistics; kriging; mineralogy; PROFILE; Sweden; weathering』

1. Introduction
2. Methods
　2.1. The PROFILE model
　2.2. Required input
　　2.2.1. Mineral composition
　　2.2.2. Mean temperature
　　2.2.3. Precipitation and runoff
　　2.2.4. Deposition
　　2.2.5. Base cation and nitrogen uptake
　　2.2.6. Base cations and nitrogen litterfall
　　2.2.7. Texture class and soil type
　　2.2.8. Moisture class
　　2.2.9. Soil depth and thickness of different layers
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
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