<b>Assessing nitrate groundwater hotspots in Europe reveals a severely inadequate designation of Nitrate Vulnerable Zones</b>

<p dir="ltr">Supplementary data for "<b>Assessing nitrate groundwater hotspots in Europe reveals a severely inadequate designation of Nitrate Vulnerable Zones</b>"</p><p dir="ltr"><br></p><ul><li><u>Predictors.rar</u>: (post-processed) annual predictors for 1961-2019 [Format: raster]</li></ul><ul><li><u>RF_dataset_2000_2019.rar</u>: dataset with the monitoring stations across Europe + predictors [Format: Rds file]</li></ul><ul><li><u>RF_model.rar</u>: contains different data formats of (i) decadal metrics (1992-2003, 2004-2019, 1992-2019) including mann-kendal test [Format: csv], (ii) hypertuned RF model with each iteration (hyperparameters and RMSE) [Format: csv], (iii) partial dependence plots for selected predictors [Format: csv], (iv) hyper-tuned RF model [Format: Rds], (v) RF model predictions for the period 1961-2019 [Format: csv] and (vi) in [Format: raster]</li></ul><ul><li><u>Scenario_analysis.rar</u>: contains different data formats of (i) scenario simulations for the historical (1961-1990) and present (2000-2019) scenarios for the period 1992-2019 [Format: raster]</li></ul><ul><li><u>Uncertainty_analysis.rar</u>: contains the uncertainty analysis for different N predictors [Format: raster]</li></ul>