Active Layer Depth and Permafrost Temperatures at the Teller 47 Field Site, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, 2022
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Dartmouth College
With extreme climate warming in the Arctic, there is increasing focus on mapping permafrost stability and improving understanding of the impacts of thawing permafrost. Summer active layer depths and temperatures at the top of the permafrost were collected at the Teller 47 field site on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska to better understand permafrost thermal state in areas of discontinuous permafrost. Measurements were taken between August 14th and August 20th, 2022. Active layer depths were measured with a 120 cm thaw probe, and temperature measurements were taken with a SpotOn Temperature probe at the top of permafrost and at a maximum depth of XYZ, when no near-surface permafrost (within 120 cm of the surface) was present. Measurements were co-located with ground surface displacement measurements, which can be found in the associated dataset, NGA254. Precise location data were collected at each observation point using a GNSS RTK GPS unit. This dataset contains a *.csv file of permafrost temperature and active layer depths and a *.kml file of measurement locations.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:
- Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem; Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE) Arctic
- Sponsoring Organization:
- U.S. DOE > Office of Science > Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- OSTI ID:
- 2395957
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-24-26332; NGA544
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > FROZEN GROUND
EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > FROZEN GROUND > PERMAFROST > PERMAFROST TEMPERATURE
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ESS-DIVE CSV File Formatting Guidelines Reporting Format
ESS-DIVE File Level Metadata Reporting Format
permafrost_layer_thickness