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Monthly Summaries of Soil Temperature and Soil Moisture at Sites in Alaska

Entry ID: ggd624

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Summary

Abstract: This data set contains soil temperature and soil moisture from 17 sites in Alaska. Temporal coverage varies by station; the earliest record is from September 1995, and the latest is from August 2001. Data from individual stations are available in tab-delimited ASCII text files. An Excel spreadsheet contains the same data compiled together in a single file. NSIDC currently provides these summary data via ftp; the full soil temperature and moisture data set is available from Ron Paetzold, USDA.

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: 70.48

S: 59.76

E: -147.91

W: -159.67

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1995-09-01

Stop Date: 2001-08-31

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > ARCTIC

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Science Keywords

LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENT

LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL TEMPERATURE

CRYOSPHERE > FROZEN GROUND > SOIL TEMPERATURE

LAND SURFACE > FROZEN GROUND > SOIL TEMPERATURE

ISO Topic Category

GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

INLAND WATERS

Ancillary Keywords

Alaskan North Slope

Soil Moisture

Soil Temperature

Data Center

National Snow and Ice Data Center

Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org

Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC USER SERVICES Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199 Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468 Email: nsidc at nsidc.org Contact Address: National Snow and Ice Data Center CIRES, 449 UCB University of Colorado City: Boulder Province or State: CO Postal Code: 80309-0449 Country: USA

Frozen Ground Data Center

Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/fgdc/

Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC FGDC USER SERVICES Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199 Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468 Email: nsidc at nsidc.org Contact Address: National Snow and Ice Data Center CIRES, 449 UCB University of Colorado City: Boulder Province or State: CO Postal Code: 80309-0449 Country: USA

Personnel

CHIEN-LU PING

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Phone: +1 907-746-9462

Fax: +1 907-746-2677

Email: pfclp at uaa.alaska.edu

Contact Address:

University of Alaska Fairbanks

533 East Fireweed

Palmer Research Center

City: Palmer

Province or State: AK

Postal Code: 99645

Country: USA

Publications/References

Anisimov, O.A., N.I. Shiklomanov, and F.E. Nelson. 2002. Variability of seasonal thaw depth in permafrost regions: a stochastic modeling approach. Ecological Modeling 153(3): 217-227. Bockheim, J.G., D.A. Walker, L.R. Everett, F.E. Nelson, and N.I. Shiklomanov. 1998. Soils and cryoturbation in moist nonacidic and acidic tundra in the Kuparuk River basin, Arctic Alaska, USA. Arctic and Alpine ... Research 30(2): 166-174. Hinkel, K. 1997. Estimating seasonal values of thermal diffusivity in thawed and frozen soils using temperature time series. Cold Regions Science and Technology 26(1): 1-15. Hinkel K.M., and S.I. Outcalt. 1994. Identification of heat-transfer processes during soil cooling, freezing, and thaw in central Alaska. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 5(4): 217-235. Hinkel, K.M., F. Paetzold, F.E. Nelson, and J.G. Bockheim. 2001. Patterns of soil temperature and moisture in the active layer and upper permafrost at Barrow, Alaska: 1993-1999. Global and Planetary Change 29(3-4): 293-309. Hinkel, K.M., F.E. Nelson, Y. Shur, J. Brown, and K.R. Everett. 1998. Temporal changes in moisture content of the active layer and near-surface permafrost at Barrow, Alaska, USA: 1962-1994. Arctic and Alpine Research 28(3): 300-310. Hinkel K.M., S.I. Outcalt, and A.E. Taylor. 1997. Seasonal patterns of coupled flow in the active layer at three sites in northwest North America. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 34(5): 667-678. Shiklomanov, N.I., and F.E. Nelson. 2002. Active-layer mapping at regional scales: A 13-year spatial time series for the Kuparuk region, north-central Alaska. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 13(3): 219-230. Shiklomanov, N.I., and F.E. Nelson. 1999. Analytic representation of the active layer thickness field, Kuparuk River Basin, Alaska. Ecological Modeling 123(2-3): 105-125. Nelson F.E., N.I. Shiklomanov, and G.R. Mueller. 1999. Variability of active-layer thickness at multiple spatial scales, north-central Alaska, USA. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 31(2): 179-186. Nelson, F.E., K.M. Hinkel, N.I. Shiklomanov, G.R. Mueller, L.L. Miller, and D.A. Walker. 1998. Active-layer thickness in north central Alaska: Systematic sampling, scale, and spatial autocorrelation. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres 103(D22): 28963-28973. Nelson F.E., N.I. Shiklomanov, G.R. Mueller, K.M. Hinkel, D.A. Walker, and J.G. Bockheim. 1997. Estimating active-layer thickness over a large region: Kuparuk River Basin, Alaska, USA. Arctic and Alpine Research 29(4): 367-378. Ping, C.L, J.G. Bockheim, J.M. Kimble, G.J. Michaelson, and D.A. Walker. 1998. Characteristics of cryogenic soils along a latitudinal transect in Arctic. Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres 103(D22): 28917-28928.

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Last DIF Revision Date: 2011-01-24

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