TY - JOUR
T1 - A synthesis dataset of permafrost-affected soil thermal conditions for Alaska, USA
AU - Wang, Kang
AU - Jafarov, Elchin
AU - Overeem, Irina
AU - Romanovsky, Vladimir
AU - Schaefer, Kevin
AU - Clow, Gary
AU - Urban, Frank
AU - Cable, William
AU - Piper, Mark
AU - Schwalm, Christopher
AU - Zhang, Tingjun
AU - Kholodov, Alexander
AU - Sousanes, Pamela
AU - Loso, Michael
AU - Hill, Kenneth
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements. We appreciate three anonymous reviewers, David Swanson, and the editor Chris DeBeer for their careful review and insightful comments which significantly strengthened our paper. We also appreciate all organizations and individuals for producing and making their data available. This study was supported by the National Science Foundation (award no. 1503559) and the NASA CMAC-14 project (no. NNX16AB19G). Gary Clow and Frank Urban were supported by the U.S. Geological Survey’s Climate and Land Use Change Program. National Park Service data collection is supported by the NPS Inventory and Monitoring Program. GI-UAF Permafrost Lab data collection was supported by the National Science Foundation (Awards OPP-0120736, ARC-0632400, ARC-0520578, ARC-0612533, and ARC-1304271) and by the State of Alaska. Tingjun Zhang was supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (no. XDA20100308). Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
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PY - 2018/12/21
Y1 - 2018/12/21
N2 - Recent observations of near-surface soil temperatures over the circumpolar Arctic show accelerated warming of permafrost-affected soils. The availability of a comprehensive near-surface permafrost and active layer dataset is critical to better understanding climate impacts and to constraining permafrost thermal conditions and its spatial distribution in land system models. We compiled a soil temperature dataset from 72 monitoring stations in Alaska using data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Park Service, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks permafrost monitoring networks. The array of monitoring stations spans a large range of latitudes from 60.9 to 71.3°N and elevations from near sea level to ∼ 1300m, comprising tundra and boreal forest regions. This dataset consists of monthly ground temperatures at depths up to 1m, volumetric soil water content, snow depth, and air temperature during 1997-2016. These data have been quality controlled in collection and processing. Meanwhile, we implemented data harmonization evaluation for the processed dataset.
AB - Recent observations of near-surface soil temperatures over the circumpolar Arctic show accelerated warming of permafrost-affected soils. The availability of a comprehensive near-surface permafrost and active layer dataset is critical to better understanding climate impacts and to constraining permafrost thermal conditions and its spatial distribution in land system models. We compiled a soil temperature dataset from 72 monitoring stations in Alaska using data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Park Service, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks permafrost monitoring networks. The array of monitoring stations spans a large range of latitudes from 60.9 to 71.3°N and elevations from near sea level to ∼ 1300m, comprising tundra and boreal forest regions. This dataset consists of monthly ground temperatures at depths up to 1m, volumetric soil water content, snow depth, and air temperature during 1997-2016. These data have been quality controlled in collection and processing. Meanwhile, we implemented data harmonization evaluation for the processed dataset.
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U2 - 10.5194/essd-10-2311-2018
DO - 10.5194/essd-10-2311-2018
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85059473385
SN - 1866-3508
VL - 10
SP - 2311
EP - 2328
JO - Earth System Science Data
JF - Earth System Science Data
IS - 4
ER -