Description
This dataset provides soil thaw depth and moisture (STDM) measurements and dielectric properties measured by different research teams at sites in Alaska, U.S., and the Northwest Territories, Canada. There are multiple observations per site and 352,719 total observations. The dataset includes 206,000 observations of active layer thickness measured by mechanical probing (6.0%) or ground penetrating radar (GPR) (94.0%). Approximately 16,000 volumetric water content measurements were collected using GPR (22.1%), Hydrosense I and II probes (75.3%), and DualEM (2.6%). Metadata includes the location, time, geospatial coordinates, technique, measurement teams. Measurements were typically collected in August and September near the end of the thaw season and cover the period 2008-06-22 to 2020-08-15.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| The dataset's project home page | HTML | ABoVE project site | Open resource |
| Download this dataset | HTML | This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login | Open resource |
| Get a related visualization | PNG | Map indicating the location of the study sites. | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | ABoVE: Soil Moisture and Active Layer Thickness in Alaska and NWT, Canada, 2008-2020: ABoVE_Soil_ThawDepth_Moisture.pdf | Open resource | |
| This dataset's landing page | HTML | Data set Landing Page DOI URL | Open resource |
| Google Scholar search results | HTML | Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. | Open resource |