NGEE Arctic Meteorological Data from Instrumented PCDC Stations, Council Site, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, 2018 - 2023
- ORNL
This dataset provides meteorological data collected at two instrumented Power, Communication, and Data Collection (PCDC) Stations, located at Council Road Mile Marker 71 (CN_MM71) and Council Road Mile Marker 68 (Rocky Top). Measurements began in June of 2018 at CN_MM71 and in September 2018 at Rocky Top and ended in 2023. Raw data included. Meteorological data include air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, and snow depth. Measurements have been aggregated to both 10-minute and 30-minute reporting intervals provided in four comma-separated (*.csv) data files.• The 30-minute data files include only the primary meteorological variables, leaf wetness, and snow depth.. The 30-minute reporting interval matches other coincident site data collections.• The 10-minute files provide the primary meteorological variables and numerous system operational parameters such as battery charge and solar and wind turbine status. This 10-minute data product is valuable for analyzing solar and wind charging system performance in arctic landscapes.Daily photographic images (09:00, 12:00, and 15:00 AKST/AKDT) of the PCDC Stations and the surrounding landscape that are captured by an adjacent web camera, are also provided.The daily 12:00 images from CN_MM71 camera have been compiled into time-lapse movies:• October 2018 – June 12, 2019 = Council_winter_2018_2019.mov• January 2019 – December 2019 = Council_2019.mp4The 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); Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE) Arctic
- Sponsoring Organization:
- U.S. DOE > Office of Science > Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- Contributing Organization:
- ORNL
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1529604
- Report Number(s):
- NGA176; https://doi.org/10.5440/1529604
- Availability:
- ORNL
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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