Ecological landscape sections from Landscape Level Ecological Mapping of Northern Alaska (2014 Update). From Jorgenson and Grunblatt, 2013.
Ecosystem types, vegetation, and land cover maps are provided in a new data set from NASA's ABoVE campaign.
Land surface fractional open water for the extended ABoVE domain for Julian days 171-180 of 2002 depicted with a black to white gradient.
Land surface fractional open water cover maps are provided for the pan-Arctic and the ABoVE study domains.
Frost-boil vegetation plot at Franklin Bluffs in northern Alaska
A new dataset provides baseline information on vegetation and soils at 117 study plots on Arctic frost-boils.
Mean remotely-sensed active layer thickness (cm) near Barrow, Alaska. Data from http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1266.
Measuring changes in the thickness of the soil's active layer provides insight into climate change in the Arctic.
Google Earth Image of the locations of the four sites around Barrow, Alaska (from Fig. 1 in Schaefer et al., 2015).
A new data set provides estimates of Active Layer Thickness (ALT) and soil volumeteric water content (VWC) for Barrow, Alaska.
The Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) is a NASA Terrestrial Ecology Program.
ORNL DAAC is hosting a webinar specifically for ABoVE researchers.
Distribution of vegetation types across the entire circumpolar Arctic region.
An international effort to map the vegetation and associated characteristics throughout the circumpolar region are provided in a new data set.
Location map of the 81 Toolik Lake Permanent Vegetation Plots.
Extensive data from field surveys at the Toolik Lake research site, located in the foothills of the Brooks Range, Alaska, are now available.
Dominant or co-dominant thermokarst landscapes within the northern boreal and tundra circumpolar permafrost region (from Olefeldt et al., 2016).
A new dataset provides the distribution of Arctic thermokarsts and estimates of soil organic carbon in those landscapes.
Active layer thickness derived from GPR data for the Basin Turnout route (from Fig. 5 in Chen et al., 2015)
New estimates of active layer thickness based on ground-penetrating radar available from the ABoVE project .
