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Snow Camera Photos at the Teller 27 Field Site from 2022-2023, Seward Peninsula, Alaska
Abstract
Snow distribution in the Arctic is highly variable and driven by high winds and microtopography, which result in deep snow drifts and shallow scoured areas. To better understand snow drifting and scouring, 4 Reconyx HyperFire 2 game cameras were installed at the Teller 27 Watershed Field Site on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska from September 2022 to September 2023. Game cameras were installed at 4 locations across the watershed to capture pictures of snow in drift and scour areas. Three-meter tall, red PVC poles were used as snow-stakes to measure snow depth from these pictures. One photo was taken at each camera once per hour during daylight. Distances between cameras and snow stakes were measured so that snow depth can later be calculated from the pictures. This dataset contains four folders of *.jpg files from each camera and one *.kml file of camera locations.The Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments: Arctic (NGEE Arctic), was a 15-year research effort (2012-2027) 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) locatedmore »
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory; Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Publication Date:
- Other Number(s):
- NGA519; LA-UR-24-22052
- Research Org.:
- Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem; Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE) Arctic
- Sponsoring Org.:
- U.S. DOE > Office of Science > Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS; EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SNOW/ICE; EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW DEPTH; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > TOPOGRAPHY; ESS-DIVE File Level Metadata Reporting Format
- OSTI Identifier:
- 2319245
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.15485/2319245
Citation Formats
Crumley, Ryan, Bachand, Claire, Thomas, Lauren, Gasarch, Eve, Thaler, Evan, and Bennett, Katrina. Snow Camera Photos at the Teller 27 Field Site from 2022-2023, Seward Peninsula, Alaska. United States: N. p., 2023.
Web. doi:10.15485/2319245.
Crumley, Ryan, Bachand, Claire, Thomas, Lauren, Gasarch, Eve, Thaler, Evan, & Bennett, Katrina. Snow Camera Photos at the Teller 27 Field Site from 2022-2023, Seward Peninsula, Alaska. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.15485/2319245
Crumley, Ryan, Bachand, Claire, Thomas, Lauren, Gasarch, Eve, Thaler, Evan, and Bennett, Katrina. 2023.
"Snow Camera Photos at the Teller 27 Field Site from 2022-2023, Seward Peninsula, Alaska". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.15485/2319245. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2319245. Pub date:Sun Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 2023
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title = {Snow Camera Photos at the Teller 27 Field Site from 2022-2023, Seward Peninsula, Alaska},
author = {Crumley, Ryan and Bachand, Claire and Thomas, Lauren and Gasarch, Eve and Thaler, Evan and Bennett, Katrina},
abstractNote = {Snow distribution in the Arctic is highly variable and driven by high winds and microtopography, which result in deep snow drifts and shallow scoured areas. To better understand snow drifting and scouring, 4 Reconyx HyperFire 2 game cameras were installed at the Teller 27 Watershed Field Site on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska from September 2022 to September 2023. Game cameras were installed at 4 locations across the watershed to capture pictures of snow in drift and scour areas. Three-meter tall, red PVC poles were used as snow-stakes to measure snow depth from these pictures. One photo was taken at each camera once per hour during daylight. Distances between cameras and snow stakes were measured so that snow depth can later be calculated from the pictures. This dataset contains four folders of *.jpg files from each camera and one *.kml file of camera locations.The Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments: Arctic (NGEE Arctic), was a 15-year research effort (2012-2027) 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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year = {Sun Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 2023},
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