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Soil Temperatures for Happy Valley and Barrow, Alaska, USA

Entry ID: ARCSS038

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Summary

Abstract: This data set contains hourly and daily-averaged soil temperatures from Happy Valley and Barrow, Alaska, from 19 August 1993 to 31 August 2004. Data are in comma-delimited or space-delimited ASCII text format, and are available via FTP. The research project was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geography and Regional Sciences and Arctic System Science (ARCSS) programs, grant numbers OPP 9214897, SES 9308334, OPP 9529783, and OPP 9732051.

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Description: Soil Temperatures for Happy Valley and Barrow, Alaska ftp site

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: 69.16

S: 69.16

E: -149.0

W: -149.0

N: 71.45

S: 71.45

E: -156.93

W: -156.93

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: K. Hinkel

Dataset Title: Soil Temperatures for Happy Valley and Barrow, Alaska, USA

Dataset Release Date: 1998-01-01, 2000

Dataset Release Place: Boulder, CO U.S.A.

Dataset Publisher: National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)

Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/arcss038.html

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1993-08-10

Stop Date: 1994-08-19

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > ALASKA

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > ARCTIC

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Science Keywords

LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL TEMPERATURE

CRYOSPHERE > FROZEN GROUND > SOIL TEMPERATURE

LAND SURFACE > FROZEN GROUND > SOIL TEMPERATURE

ISO Topic Category

GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

INLAND WATERS

Platform

GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS

Instrument

TEMPERATURE LOGGERS

THERMISTORS

Project

ARCSS > Arctic System Science

ARCSS/LAII/ATLAS > Arctic System Science/LAII/Arctic Transitions in the Land-Atmosphere System

NSF/OPP > Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation

Ancillary Keywords

Soil Temperatures

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Data Center

National Snow and Ice Data Center

Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org
Dataset ID: ARCSS038

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

Distribution

Distribution Media: FTP

Distribution Size: 15 KB - 722 KB

Distribution Format: ASCII

Personnel

KENNETH M. HINKEL

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Phone: 513-556-3421

Email: Ken_Hinkel at compuserve.com

Contact Address:

University of Cincinnati

Department of Geography

ML131

City: Cincinnati

Province or State: OH

Postal Code: 45221-0131

Country: USA

NSIDC USER SERVICES

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

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

Publications/References

Brown, J., Hinkel, K.M. and F.E. Nelson. 2000. The Circumpolar active layer monitoring (CALM) program: Research designs and initial results. Polar Geography, 24(3), 165-258.

Brown, J., and P.L. Johnson. 1965. Pedo-ecological Investigations, Barrow, Alaska. Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Technical Report 159, Hanover, NH, 32 pages with appendices.

Kane, D.L., K.M. ... Hinkel, D.J. Goering, L.D. Hinzman, and S.I. Outcalt. 2001. Nonconductive heat transfer associated with freezing soils. Global and Planetary Change 29: 275-292.

Hinkel, K. M. 1997. Estimating seasonal values of thermal diffusivity in thawed and frozen soils using temperature time series. Cold Regions Science and Technology, 26, 1-15.

Hinkel, K.M. and F.E. Nelson. 2003. Spatial and temporal patterns of active layer depth at CALM sites in Northern Alaska, 1995-2000. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 108(D2),10.129/2001JD000927.

Hinkel, K.M., Nelson, F.E., Bockheim, J.G., Miller, L.M. and R.F. Paetzold. 2000. Spatial and temporal patterns of soil moisture and depth of thaw at proximal acidic and nonacidic tundra sites, north-central Alaska, U.S. In: Advances in Soil Science: Global Climate Change and Cold Regions Ecosystems, Chapt. 14, 197-209.

Hinkel, K. M., Outcalt, S. I. 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, 667-678.

Hinkel, K.M., Paetzold, R.F., Nelson, F.E. 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, 293-309.
Nelson, F.E., Hinkel, K.M., Shiklomanov, N.I., Mueller, G.R., Miller. L.L. and D.A Walker. 1998. Active-layer thickness in north-central Alaska: systematic sampling, scale, and spatial autocorrelation. Journal of Geophysical Research- Atmospheres, 103(22), 28963-28973.

Miller, L.L., Hinkel, K.M., Nelson. F.E., Paetzold, R.F. and S.I. Outcalt. 1998. Spatial and temporal patterns of soil moisture and thaw depth at Barrow, Alaska U.S.A. In: Proceedings Permafrost--Seventh International Conference, Centre d'etudes nordiques, Universite Laval, Quebec, 731-737.

Outcalt, S. I., Hinkel, K. M., Meyer, E. and A.J. Brazel. 1997. Applications of Hurst rescaling to geophysical serial data. Geographical Analysis, 29(1), 70-88.

Outcalt, S. I., Hinkel, K. M. and L.L. Miller. 1997. Modeling the magnitude and time dependence of nonconductive heat-transfer effects in taiga and tundra soils. In: International Symposium on Physics, Chemistry, and Ecology of Seasonally Frozen Soils. CRREL Special Report 97-10, pp. 98-104.

Outcalt, S.I., Hinkel, K.M., Nelson, F.E. and L.L Miller. 1998. Estimating the magnitude of coupled-flow effects in the active layer and upper permafrost, Barrow, Alaska U.S.A. In: Proceedings Permafrost--Seventh International Conference, Centre d'etudes nordiques, Universite Laval, Quebec, 869-873.

Paetzold, R.F., Hinkel, K.M., Nelson, F.E., Osterkamp, T.E., Ping, C.L. and V.E Romanovsky. 2000. Temperature and thermal properties of Alaska soils. In: Advances in Soil Science: Global Climate Change and Cold Regions Ecosystems, Chap. 16, 223-245.

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 1999-08-31

Last DIF Revision Date: 2012-05-11

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