In Situ Soil Moisture and Thaw Depth Measurements Coincident with Airborne SAR Data Collections, Barrow and Seward Peninsulas, Alaska, 2017

Dataset · Mon Mar 26 04:00:00 EDT 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.5440/1423892· OSTI ID:1423892

Wilson, Cathy ^[1]; Dann, Julian; Bolton, Robert; Charsley-Groffman, Lauren; Jafarov, Elchin; Musa, Dea; Wullschleger, Stan

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1. Los Alamos National Laboratory

The in-situ soil moisture and thaw depth measurements provided in this dataset were collected coincident with airborne overflights of L- and P-band SAR instruments at the NGEE Arctic study site near Barrow, on the North Slope, and at the three study sites on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Field measurements and flights were conducted during the summer of 2017 as a collaboration between the NASA ABoVE Project's Airborne SAR Campaign and the NGEE Arctic Project. ABoVE protocols for establishing field measurement plots were followed. NGEE Arctic plots for the ground-based measurements are located at existing study sites where SAR data would also add value to current monitoring and characterization efforts of the NGEE Team. The ground-based data will be used by ABoVE to analyze, calibrate and validate the remote sensing products. In November 2020, a Version 2 (V2) set of in situ soil moisture and thaw depth measurement data files were released. This dataset contains 1 pdf, 2 zip files, and 7 csv files. The Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments: Arctic (NGEE Arctic), was a research effort to reduce uncertainty in Earth System Models by developing a predictive understanding of carbon-rich Arctic ecosystems and feedbacks to climate. NGEE Arctic was supported by the Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research.The NGEE Arctic project had two field research sites: 1) located within the Arctic polygonal tundra coastal region on the Barrow Environmental Observatory (BEO) and the North Slope near Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska and 2) multiple areas on the discontinuous permafrost region of the Seward Peninsula north of Nome, Alaska.Through observations, experiments, and synthesis with existing datasets, NGEE Arctic provided an enhanced knowledge base for multi-scale modeling and contributed to improved process representation at global pan-Arctic scales within the Department of Energy?s Earth system Model (the Energy Exascale Earth System Model, or E3SM), and specifically within the E3SM Land Model component (ELM).

• Research Organization: Next Generation Ecosystems Experiment - Arctic, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: U.S. DOE > Office of Science > Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
• Contributing Organization: ORNL
• OSTI ID: 1423892
• Report Number(s): https://doi.org/10.5440/1423892; NGA142; ngee_1660FF653E47225E108813800DC96F482018_03_22_170938889
• Availability: ORNL
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Barrow Environmental Observatory
Barrow
Alaska
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > FROZEN GROUND
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS
EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > GROUND WATER
North Slope
Alaska
Seward Peninsula
Alaska
Soil moisture
Thaw depth
Utqiagvik
Alaska