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Vegetation on Arctic Pingos

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A typical pingo, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. This feature is 7 m high and has a basal diameter of 110 m (from Walker, 1990).

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A pingo is a mound of earth-covered ice found in the Arctic. A new data set provides vegetation data on 41 pingos in the North Slope of Alaska.

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Land cover in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

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Land-cover map of the Coastal Plain, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, 1993. Sixteen land-cover types are noted, with a 17th notation for shadow (Jorgenson et al., 1994).

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A landcover map for the northern coastal plain of the the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) has been released in support of NASA's ABoVE campaign.

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Study Domain and Reference Grid for ABoVE Campaign

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ABoVE spatial data products - the Study Domain with Core and Extended study regions displayed and the Standard Reference Grid showing the nested tiling scheme.

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The standard reference grid and official boundaries of the study domain are provided for the Arctic - Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE).

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