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Title: A new data set for estimating organic carbon storage to 3 m depth in soils of the northern circumpolar permafrost region

Abstract

High-latitude terrestrial ecosystems are key components in the global carbon cycle. The Northern Circumpolar Soil Carbon Database (NCSCD) was developed to quantify stocks of soil organic carbon (SOC) in the northern circumpolar permafrost region (a total area of 18.7 × 106 km2). The NCSCD is a geographical information system (GIS) data set that has been constructed using harmonized regional soil classification maps together with pedon data from the northern permafrost region. Previously, the NCSCD has been used to calculate SOC storage to the reference depths 0–30 cm and 0–100 cm (based on 1778 pedons). It has been shown that soils of the northern circumpolar permafrost region also contain significant quantities of SOC in the 100–300 cm depth range, but there has been no circumpolar compilation of pedon data to quantify this deeper SOC pool and there are no spatially distributed estimates of SOC storage below 100 cm depth in this region. Here we describe the synthesis of an updated pedon data set for SOC storage (kg C m-2) in deep soils of the northern circumpolar permafrost regions, with separate data sets for the 100–200 cm (524 pedons) and 200–300 cm (356 pedons) depth ranges. These pedons have been grouped intomore » the North American and Eurasian sectors and the mean SOC storage for different soil taxa (subdivided into Gelisols including the sub-orders Histels, Turbels, Orthels, permafrost-free Histosols, and permafrost-free mineral soil orders) has been added to the updated NCSCDv2. The updated version of the data set is freely available online in different file formats and spatial resolutions that enable spatially explicit applications in GIS mapping and terrestrial ecosystem models. While this newly compiled data set adds to our knowledge of SOC in the 100–300 cm depth range, it also reveals that large uncertainties remain. Identified data gaps include spatial coverage of deep (> 100 cm) pedons in many regions as well as the spatial extent of areas with thin soils overlying bedrock and the quantity and distribution of massive ground ice. An open access data-portal for the pedon data set and the GIS-data sets is available online at http://bolin.su.se/data/ncscd/. The NCSCDv2 data set has a digital object identifier« less

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  1. Stockholm Univ., Stockholm (Sweden)
  2. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
  3. Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME (United States)
  4. Univ. of Copenhagen, Copenhagen (Denmark); The Univ. Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen (Norway)
  5. Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK (United States)
  6. U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  7. U.S. Forest Service, Newton Square, PA (United States)
  8. Alaska Ecoscience, Fairbanks, AK (United States)
  9. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  10. Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks, Palmer, AK (United States)
  11. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  12. National Park Service, Fairbanks, AK (United States)
  13. Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Unit Potsdam, Potsdam (Germany)
  14. Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States)
  15. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
  16. Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA (United States)
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Research Org.:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
National Science Foundation (NSF); Argonne National Laboratory; USDOE Office of Science (SC); Bolin Centre for Climate Research; Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority; Swedish Research Council (SRC)
OSTI Identifier:
1392649
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1395019
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Earth System Science Data (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Earth System Science Data (Online); Journal Volume: 5; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 1866-3516
Publisher:
Copernicus
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; soil organic carbon permafrost circumpolar database

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Hugelius, Gustaf, Bockheim, J. G., Camill, P., Elberling, B., Grosse, G., Harden, J. W., Johnson, K., Jorgenson, T., Koven, C. D., Kuhry, P., Michaelson, G., Mishra, U., Palmtag, J., Ping, C. -L., O'Donnell, J., Schirrmeister, L., Schuur, E. A. G., Sheng, Y., Smith, L. C., Strauss, J., and Yu, Z. A new data set for estimating organic carbon storage to 3 m depth in soils of the northern circumpolar permafrost region. United States: N. p., 2013. Web. doi:10.5194/essd-5-393-2013.
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Hugelius, Gustaf, Bockheim, J. G., Camill, P., Elberling, B., Grosse, G., Harden, J. W., Johnson, K., Jorgenson, T., Koven, C. D., Kuhry, P., Michaelson, G., Mishra, U., Palmtag, J., Ping, C. -L., O'Donnell, J., Schirrmeister, L., Schuur, E. A. G., Sheng, Y., Smith, L. C., Strauss, J., & Yu, Z. A new data set for estimating organic carbon storage to 3 m depth in soils of the northern circumpolar permafrost region. United States. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-5-393-2013
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Hugelius, Gustaf, Bockheim, J. G., Camill, P., Elberling, B., Grosse, G., Harden, J. W., Johnson, K., Jorgenson, T., Koven, C. D., Kuhry, P., Michaelson, G., Mishra, U., Palmtag, J., Ping, C. -L., O'Donnell, J., Schirrmeister, L., Schuur, E. A. G., Sheng, Y., Smith, L. C., Strauss, J., and Yu, Z. Mon . "A new data set for estimating organic carbon storage to 3 m depth in soils of the northern circumpolar permafrost region". United States. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-5-393-2013. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1392649.
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@article{osti_1392649,
title = {A new data set for estimating organic carbon storage to 3 m depth in soils of the northern circumpolar permafrost region},
author = {Hugelius, Gustaf and Bockheim, J. G. and Camill, P. and Elberling, B. and Grosse, G. and Harden, J. W. and Johnson, K. and Jorgenson, T. and Koven, C. D. and Kuhry, P. and Michaelson, G. and Mishra, U. and Palmtag, J. and Ping, C. -L. and O'Donnell, J. and Schirrmeister, L. and Schuur, E. A. G. and Sheng, Y. and Smith, L. C. and Strauss, J. and Yu, Z.},
abstractNote = {High-latitude terrestrial ecosystems are key components in the global carbon cycle. The Northern Circumpolar Soil Carbon Database (NCSCD) was developed to quantify stocks of soil organic carbon (SOC) in the northern circumpolar permafrost region (a total area of 18.7 × 106 km2). The NCSCD is a geographical information system (GIS) data set that has been constructed using harmonized regional soil classification maps together with pedon data from the northern permafrost region. Previously, the NCSCD has been used to calculate SOC storage to the reference depths 0–30 cm and 0–100 cm (based on 1778 pedons). It has been shown that soils of the northern circumpolar permafrost region also contain significant quantities of SOC in the 100–300 cm depth range, but there has been no circumpolar compilation of pedon data to quantify this deeper SOC pool and there are no spatially distributed estimates of SOC storage below 100 cm depth in this region. Here we describe the synthesis of an updated pedon data set for SOC storage (kg C m-2) in deep soils of the northern circumpolar permafrost regions, with separate data sets for the 100–200 cm (524 pedons) and 200–300 cm (356 pedons) depth ranges. These pedons have been grouped into the North American and Eurasian sectors and the mean SOC storage for different soil taxa (subdivided into Gelisols including the sub-orders Histels, Turbels, Orthels, permafrost-free Histosols, and permafrost-free mineral soil orders) has been added to the updated NCSCDv2. The updated version of the data set is freely available online in different file formats and spatial resolutions that enable spatially explicit applications in GIS mapping and terrestrial ecosystem models. While this newly compiled data set adds to our knowledge of SOC in the 100–300 cm depth range, it also reveals that large uncertainties remain. Identified data gaps include spatial coverage of deep (> 100 cm) pedons in many regions as well as the spatial extent of areas with thin soils overlying bedrock and the quantity and distribution of massive ground ice. An open access data-portal for the pedon data set and the GIS-data sets is available online at http://bolin.su.se/data/ncscd/. The NCSCDv2 data set has a digital object identifier},
doi = {10.5194/essd-5-393-2013},
journal = {Earth System Science Data (Online)},
number = 2,
volume = 5,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Dec 23 00:00:00 EST 2013},
month = {Mon Dec 23 00:00:00 EST 2013}
}
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