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Soil Pit Properties from the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment

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Site sampling plan for active layer soil characterization.
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Site sampling plan used for characterizing active layer soils (left). Axes are in meters. At Imnavait Creek, active layer thickness (ALT) was measured on transects intersecting a central soil pit. Soil dielectric properties, in situ moisture and temperature profiles were measured, and soil samples were collected for analyses from the soil pit (right).

ABoVE: Active Layer Soil Characterization of Permafrost Sites, Northern Alaska, 2018

This dataset from the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) provides in situ soil measurements including soil dielectric properties, temperature, and moisture profiles, active layer thickness (ALT), and measurements of soil organic matter, bulk density, porosity, texture, and coarse root biomass. Samples were collected from the surface to permafrost table in soil pits at selected sites along the Dalton Highway in Northern Alaska. From North to South, the study sites include Franklin Bluffs, Sagwon, Happy Valley, Ice Cut, and Imnavait Creek. Measurements were made from August 22 to August 26, 2018. The purpose of the field campaign was to characterize the dielectric properties of permafrost active layer soils in support of the ABoVE Airborne Campaign.

ABoVE is a NASA Terrestrial Ecology Program field campaign based in Alaska and western Canada between 2016 and 2021. Research for ABoVE links field-based, process-level studies with geospatial data products derived from airborne and satellite sensors, providing a foundation for improving the analysis and modeling capabilities needed to understand and predict ecosystem responses and societal implications. See all ORNL DAAC data from ABoVE.

Data Citation: Bakian-Dogaheh, K., R.H. Chen, M. Moghaddam, Y. Yi, and A. Tabatabaeenejad. 2020. ABoVE: Active Layer Soil Characterization of Permafrost Sites, Northern Alaska, 2018. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1759