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data: EF 3.1 CF table, duplicate global JRC rows resolved deliberately (78 values) - #3

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Regenerated data/01-ef-3.1/characterization-factors.parquet from sentier-importers (companion PR there: fix/ef-cf-global-duplicates). Same 319,393 rows and keys; 78 values change, all at global level (no location), 76 land use and 2 water use.

Why

The official JRC EF 3.1 table carries, for 182 flow-method pairs, two global rows with different values (water 42.95 vs 37.8; land e.g. from arable, non-irrigated -501.91 vs -365.6 while to arable, non-irrigated +365.6 vs +501.91). The import kept whichever row came first, which produced asymmetric land transformation pairs (32 of 57) and water intake 37.8 against return -42.955, so hydropower and cooling water netted negative and annual crops flipped sign. Found by a parity check of the Brightway loader against BAFU's published EF 3.1 results.

Rule now applied (documented in the importer)

  • Water use: the 42.95 family (AWARE world average for an unknown location): intake 42.95, returns -42.95 / -42.955.
  • Land use: the value confirmed by the SimaPro "EF 3.1 adapted" export, matched on land class (160 direct, 11 via the class-name fallback such as bare forest = SimaPro forest, unspecified 21.463); the arbiter must equal one JRC candidate exactly, never the nearest; 0 pairs fell to the last-resort rule. Every from/to pair present is symmetric.

Country-level rows untouched. row_counts unchanged.

…y (78 values)

The JRC EF 3.1 table lists two global rows with different values for 182
flow-method pairs (171 land use, 11 water use); the import used to keep the
first. Now: water keeps the 42.95 family (intake and return cancel), land keeps
the value that the SimaPro EF 3.1 adapted export confirms (symmetric from/to
pairs, e.g. arable non-irrigated +/-501.91; bare forest 21.463). Regenerated by
sentier-importers fix/ef-cf-global-duplicates. Decision 2026-09-14.
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