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1. Soil climate and atmospheric data for Scott Base, Marble Point, Mount Fleming, Bull Pass, Granite Harbour, Minna Bluff, Victoria Valley, Don Juan Pond and Bull Pass, Antarctica [K123_1999_2012_NZ_1]
In collaboration with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) climate stations were installed at six locations in the Ross Sea Region including Scott Base, Marble Point and Bull Pass all ...


2. Environmental protection, management and classification of terrestrial ecosystems in the Ross Sea Region [K123_2010_2012_NZ_3]
Soil samples from a diverse range of soil types have been collected from the Wright and Victoria Valley Systems, to determine whether soil distribution patterns aid prediction of microbial abundance ...


3. IPA-IPY Thermal State of Permafrost (TSP) Snapshot Borehole Inventory, Version 1.0 [G02190]
During the planning and implementation of the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007 - 2009, the International Permafrost Association (IPA) coordinated the acquisition of permafrost temperature data ...


4. Model Output of Active Layer Depth in the Arctic Drainage Basin, 1979-2001 [ARCSS158]
Investigators applied the Frozen Ground Model to the entire Arctic Drainage Basin to create this data set of active layer depth (ALD), recorded in centimeters. This model has been shown to provide ...


5. Air Temperature and Thaw Depth, North Slope, Alaska: Field Measurements (1995-97) and Computed Values [ARCSS040]
This data product contains field data measurements of air temperatures and thaw depth (active-layer thickness) measured at locations in north-central Alaska, and modelled values of air temperatures ...


6. Borehole Temperatures from the North Slope of Alaska, 1977-2003 [ARCSS034]
This data set contains temperatures collected from boreholes on the North Slope of Alaska at 23 sites between 1977 and 2003. Most data fall into a date range of 1983-2003. The data consist of manually ...


7. Daily Air and Active Layer Temperatures From Permafrost Observatories in Alaska, 1986-2001 [ARCSS106]
This data set contains air and soil temperatures collected from eight sites in Alaska between 1986 and 2001. The data were obtained by remote, battery-powered, computer-controlled automatic temperature ...


8. Preliminary Investigation of Paleoenvironment, Processes, and Carbon Stocks of Drained Thaw-Lake Basins, Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska [ARCSS089]
This data set contains measurements taken from 78 drained thaw-lake basins on the Arctic Coastal Plain between Barrow and Atqasuk, Alaska. Investigators collected and analyzed sediment cores to determine ...


9. Thaw Depth and Vegetation Radiance Measurements, Happy Valley, AK, 1994 [ARCSS103]
This data set contains measurements for permafrost active layer thaw depth and vegetation reflectance (red and near-infrared bandwidths) at the Happy Valley Flux Study Site in northern Alaska during ...


10. Time Series of Active Layer Thickness in the Russian Arctic, 1930-1990 [ARCSS160]
This data set consists of active layer thickness (ALT) measurements based on soil temperatures in the Russian Arctic. The active layer is the top layer of ground that freezes in the winter and thaws ...


11. Toolik Snowfence Experiment: 1994-2002 Active Layer Depth [ARCSS900]
This data set contains active layer data collected for the Toolik Snowfence Experiment from 1994 to 2002. The Toolik Snowfence Experiment (part of the International Tundra Experiment network) examines ...


12. Direct Molecular Analysis of Antarctica and Southern Ocean Microbial Communities [ASAC_867]
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 867 See the link below for public details on this project. Dataset Sea-ice bacteria data are associated with ASAC_1012 and included there Data for bacteria ...


13. Active Layer Monitoring, Arctic and Subarctic Canada [ggd353]
This project involves measuring regional and site variability in maximum annual active layer development and vertical surface movement over permafrost, and monitoring sites over time in order to observe ...


14. Active-Layer Depth of a Finnish Palsa Bog [ggd622]
This data set contains 76 active-layer depth measurements (cm) of the Vaisje??ggi palsa bog, Finland, from 08 September 1993 to 14 October 2002. Data were collected from a single location at 69 deg ...


15. Annual Thaw Depths in Illisarvik, Northwest Territories [ggd642]
Thaw-depth data were collected annually in August from 21 August 1979 to 18 August 1999, from 400-m, 600-m, and tundra transects at Illisarvik lake, Richards Island, Northwest Territories, Canada. ...


16. Arctic EASE-Grid Freeze and Thaw Depths, 1901 - 2002 [ggd651]
This data set contains mean, median, minimum and maximum freeze and thaw depths for each year from 1901 to 2002 on the 25 km resolution Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid (EASE-Grid) for areas north ...


17. Borehole permafrost data, Kumtor and Taragai Valleys, Tienshan, Kazakhstan [ggd499]
This dataset includes observations of the permafrost temperatures in the Inner Tien Shan were started in 1986 by Kazakhstan Alpine Permafrost Laboratory. Observations are carried out on more than ...


18. Geocryology and Geocryological Zonation of Mongolia [ggd648]
The map of Geocryology and Geocryological Zonation of Mongolia was derived from the National Atlas of Mongolia (Sodnom and Yanshin, 1990). The data set depicts the distribution and general properties ...


19. Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P) [ggd633]
The Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P) was established in 1999 by the International Permafrost Association to provide long-term field observations of active layer and permafrost thermal ...


20. Ground Water Atlas of the United States: Alaska [ggd617]
The Ground Water Atlas of the United States includes summary information on permafrost in Alaska, and the relation of permafrost and ground water. The Atlas includes figures showing permafrost zones ...


21. Maps of Geocryological Regions and Classifications in China [ggd603]
This data set includes digital versions of 'The Map of Geocryological Regionalization and Classification in China' from Geocryology in China by Y. Zhou, D. Guo, G. Qiu, G. Cheng, and S. Li. Included ...


22. Shallow Borehole Temperatures, Ilulissat, Greenland [ggd631]
This data set contains borehole temperatures from Ilulissat, west Greenland (69°N, 51°N, 44 m asl), recorded from 21 thermistors at depths of 0.25 m, 0.5 m, 0.75 m, 1 m, 1.25 m, 1.5 m, 1.75 ...


23. Active layer thickness and ground temperatures, Svea, Svalbard [ggd249]
Snow and soil temperature records for January 1988 - May 1996 are presented. Included are snow depth and weight measurements, snow density (calculated), active layer depth in the frost tubes, weight ...


24. ArcticRIMS: A Regional, Integrated Hydrological Monitoring System for the Pan-Arctic Landmass [ARCSS161]
The Arctic Rapid Integrated Monitoring System (ArcticRIMS) uses products from numerical weather prediction models (NCEP/NCAR, ERA-40, station records, satellite remote sensing, and other data sets) ...


25. Frozen Ground Temperature Variations, East Andean Range, 1995-2005 [ggd1]
This data set includes air and soil temperatures from the East Andean Range. The goals of the project were 1) to understand air and ground temperature variations as a function of elevation in seasonally ...


26. Regionalization for geocryological conditions and forecast, Yamal Peninsula , Russia [ggd193]
This data set consists of a classification of the geological environment of Yamal, based on a map of natural complexes of North West Siberia. 52 separate regions were identified, distinguished by ...


27. Active Layer Measurements in Tanana Flats, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA [ggd240]
This data set consists of active layer thickness from forested uplands (islands and benches) bordering the interconnected wetlands of Tanana Flats, near Fairbanks, Alaska. CRREL permafrost cores were ...


28. Active Layer and Permafrost Thickness, Soil Properties, and Periglacial Processes in the Gijiga Lowland, Russia [ggd307]
This data set includes measurements of ground temperature, active-layer and permafrost thickness, and soil properties in the Gijiga Lowland, Russia. Massive ground ice and periglacial processes are ...


29. Active-Layer and Permafrost Temperatures, Sisimiut (Holsteinsborg), Greenland [ggd23]
This data set contains active-layer and permafrost temperatures from Sisimiut, west Greenland, recorded from 18 sensors at depths of 0.25 m, 0.5 m, 0.75 m, 1 m, 1.25 m, 1.5 m, 1.75 m, 2 m, 2.5 m, ...


30. Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring (CALM) Program Network [ggd313]
The CALM network currently includes 130 active sites in both hemispheres, with 15 participating countries. An additional 20 or more secondary sites are co-located with these primary sites, resulting ...


31. Engineering-Geocryological Investigations in West Siberia, Russia [ggd303]
This project collected information on snow cover, geocryology, soil properties, and ground temperature, in western Siberia, Russia. Ground temperature was measured every 0.5 m to a depth of 3 m; every ...


32. Engineering-Geocryological Investigations in the Messoyakha-Norilsk Pipeline Area, Russia [ggd305]
This data set includes geocryological data from boreholes in the Messoyakha-Norilsk Pipeline Area, Russia. Parameters include ground temperature and soil properties. Ground temperature was measured ...


33. Engineering-Geocryological Investigations in the Northern Russia [ggd304]
This data set includes geocryological data from northwest Russia. Parameters include soil properties, ground temperature, ground water properties, and geophysical properties. Data were collected during ...


34. Engineering-Geocryological Investigations in the Upper Kolyma and Omolon Depression, Russia [ggd299]
This data set provides description of permafrost extent, measurements of temperature regime and water inflow in mines, measurements of active-layer depth, and descriptions of periglacial processes ...


35. Engineering-Geocryological Investigations in the Yamal Peninsula Gas Fields, Russia [ggd302]
This project collected information on snow cover, geocryology, geophysics, soil properties, ground temperature, and active layer depth in the area of the Yamal Peninsula gas fields and pipelines in ...


36. Engineering-Geocryological Investigations in the Yamburg and Medvezhje Gas Fields, Russia [ggd306]
This data set includes geocryological data from boreholes in the in the Yamburg and Medvezhje gas fields of western Siberia, Russia. Parameters include ground temperature, active layer depth, ground ...


37. Hierarchic GIS: Process, Pattern and Scale for Analysis of Arctic Ecosystems (ITEX) [ggd244]
This study is developing a GIS at multiple scales for the Kuparuk River Basin and other sites in Alaska. The project includes geobotanical sampling of 1 x 1 km grids at 100 m intervals for vegetation, ...


38. New Zealand Antarctic Soils Database [ggd25]
This data set includes the New Zealand National soils database, a comprehensive collection of data relating to Antarctic soils, permafrost, and frozen ground conditions. Data are from about 800 sites ...


39. Response of Tundra Ecosystems to Altered Snow Regimes, Toolik Lake, Alaska, and Niwot Ridge, Colorado [ggd245]
This study investigated the effects of field manipulations of winter precipitation and summer temperature on species performance, community structure, and ecosystem C and N dynamics. Parameters include ...


40. Rock glaciers, Central Andes, Argentina [ggd280]
Primary rock glaciers are fed by avalanche chutes. At the El Salto rock glacier, surveys have been undertaken in order to determine the creep rate. Between 1981 and 1986 temperatures at elevations ...


41. Seasonal and annual dynamics of frozen ground, central highland of Iceland [ggd9]
This dataset documents a nine-year study to investigate the seasonal and annual dynamics of frozen ground and explore the relationship with environmental factors. The presence/absence of frozen ground ...


42. Active layer and permafrost properties, including snow depth, soil temperature, and soil moisture, Barrow, Alaska [ggd222]
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, ...


43. Active layer physical processes at Broeggerhalvoya, western Spitsbergen [ggd239]
These data have been collected from an Arctic desert site (latitude 78o57'29N, longitude 12o27'42E), Broeggerhalvoya in western Spitsbergen, 10 km NW from Ny Alesund, 45 m above sea level, 2 km ...


44. Borehole Temperatures, Permafrost Thickness, and Water Content, Magadan City, Russia [ggd298]
This study investigated periglacial processes in the area around Magadan City, Russia. Polygons containing observation sites were established in both natural and disturbed conditions. Permafrost temperature, ...


45. Engineering-Geocryological Investigations in the Baikal-Amur Mainline Area, Russia [ggd301]
This data set includes geocryological data from boreholes in the Baikal-Amur mainline area of Russia. Parameters include soil properties, ground temperature, ground water properties, geophysical properties, ...


46. Engineering-Geocryological Investigations in the Yana River Area, Russia [ggd300]
This data set includes active layer depth and groundwater data from boreholes in the Yana River Area, Russia. Boreholes ranged in depth from 5 to 200 m. The project also measured permafrost extent ...


47. Engineering-geocryological Investigations, Urengoy gasfield, Western Siberia, Russia [ggd192]
This data set consists of data from approximately 1,200 engineering-geocryological boreholes, of approximate 12 m depth. The following parameters are collected for each borehole: ground type, cryotextures, ...


48. Engineering-geocryological investigations, Zapolyarnoye gas field, Western Siberia, Russia [ggd194]
This data set includes data from approximately 400 engineering-geocryological boreholes in western Siberia (approximate depth of 12 m). The data include soil type, cryotexture, soil moisture at 0.5 ...


49. Geological and Geophysical Analyses of Permafrost and Groundwater Conditions, Fort Wainright, Alaska, USA [ggd236]
This study used ground-penetrating radar to map groundwater (sub- and supra-permafrost) and bedrock and permafrost constraints to water flow at Fort Wainright, Alaska. Active layer parameters, depth ...


50. Micrometeorology, soil temperatures (PermaAntarctica), Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands [ggd205]
This data set consists of micrometeorological tower data from Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands (periantarctic). Parameters include summer heat flux balance, soil heat flux, and active ...


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