Active layer and permafrost properties, including snow depth, soil temperature, and soil moisture, Barrow, Alaska, Version 1

Description

This data set contains soil temperature, soil moisture, thaw depth, and snow depth data collected at test sites near Barrow, Alaska, during the following years. Soil temperature data - 1963-1966, 1993 Soil moisture data - 1963 Thaw depth - 1962-1968, 1991-1993 Snow depth - 1963-1964 This study focused on characterizing the active soil layer at Barrow, and determining the relationships between and among these physical properties at permafrost sites in the Arctic. This site is U1 of the IPA's Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring (CALM) Program and later measurements are available at the CALM Web site.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Direct download, with optional registration page. https://nsidc.org/forms/GGD222_or.html?major_version=1
21 Includes a user's guide, supplemental documents like ATBDs and academic papers, How Tos, FAQs, etc. https://nsidc.org/data/GGD222/versions/1

Tags

  • snow-ice
  • soils
  • land-surface
  • agriculture
  • cryosphere
  • terrestrial-hydrosphere
  • frozen-ground
  • earth-science

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