AWARE characterization factor samples

Files contain 5000 samples of AWARE characterization factors, as well as sampled independent data used in their calculations and selected intermediate results.

AWARE is a consensus-based method development to assess water use in LCA. It was developed by the WULCA UNEP/SETAC working group. Its characterization factors represent the relative Available WAter REmaining per area in a watershed, after the demand of humans and aquatic ecosystems has been met. It assesses the potential of water deprivation, to either humans or ecosystems, building on the assumption that the less water remaining available per area, the more likely another user will be deprived.

Samples were updated from v1.0 in 2020 to include model uncertainty associated with the choice of WaterGap as the global hydrological model (GHM).