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In Situ Soil Moisture and Thaw Depth Measurements Coincident with Airborne SAR Data Collections, Barrow and Seward Peninsulas, Alaska, 2017
Abstract
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. NGEE Arctic Project Summary:The Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments: Arctic (NGEE Arctic), was a 10-year research effort (2012-2022) 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.Themore »
- Publication Date:
- Other Number(s):
- NGA142
ngee_1660FF653E47225E108813800DC96F482018_03_22_170938889
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC05-00OR22725
- Research Org.:
- Next Generation Ecosystems Experiment - Arctic, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (US); NGEE Arctic, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- Collaborations:
- ORNL
- Subject:
- 54 Environmental Sciences
- Keywords:
- Soil moisture; Thaw depth; North Slope, Alaska; Seward Peninsula, Alaska; Barrow, Alaska; Barrow Environmental Observatory; Utqiagvik, Alaska
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1423892
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.5440/1423892
Citation Formats
Wilson, Cathy, Dann, Julian, Bolton, Robert, Charsley-Groffman, Lauren, Jafarov, Elchin, Musa, Dea, and Wullschleger, Stan. In Situ Soil Moisture and Thaw Depth Measurements Coincident with Airborne SAR Data Collections, Barrow and Seward Peninsulas, Alaska, 2017. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.5440/1423892.
Wilson, Cathy, Dann, Julian, Bolton, Robert, Charsley-Groffman, Lauren, Jafarov, Elchin, Musa, Dea, & Wullschleger, Stan. In Situ Soil Moisture and Thaw Depth Measurements Coincident with Airborne SAR Data Collections, Barrow and Seward Peninsulas, Alaska, 2017. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.5440/1423892
Wilson, Cathy, Dann, Julian, Bolton, Robert, Charsley-Groffman, Lauren, Jafarov, Elchin, Musa, Dea, and Wullschleger, Stan. 2021.
"In Situ Soil Moisture and Thaw Depth Measurements Coincident with Airborne SAR Data Collections, Barrow and Seward Peninsulas, Alaska, 2017". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.5440/1423892. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1423892. Pub date:Tue Jan 05 00:00:00 EST 2021
@article{osti_1423892,
title = {In Situ Soil Moisture and Thaw Depth Measurements Coincident with Airborne SAR Data Collections, Barrow and Seward Peninsulas, Alaska, 2017},
author = {Wilson, Cathy and Dann, Julian and Bolton, Robert and Charsley-Groffman, Lauren and Jafarov, Elchin and Musa, Dea and Wullschleger, Stan},
abstractNote = {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. NGEE Arctic Project Summary:The Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments: Arctic (NGEE Arctic), was a 10-year research effort (2012-2022) 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).},
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