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ABoVE: Soil Temperature and Moisture at Boreal and Tundra Sites

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2021-11-02
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Site-specific soil moisture sensor calibration curves. Laboratory determined volumetric water content (VWC) is plotted against the raw VWC sensor output

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Soil temperature and volumetric water content (VWC) measurements for 12 selected boreal and tundra sites located across Alaska.
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ABoVE: Lake Growing Season Green Surface Reflectance Trends

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2021-09-27
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Lakes with significant negative trends in "greenness" of lake surface reflectance (left) and positive trends (right) across growing seasons from 1984-2019 below 75 degrees N. Source: Kuhn and Butman, 2021

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Landsat based annual time series and season trend for lakes across the ABoVE Extended Study Domain, 1984 to 2019 recently published.
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High Latitude Annual Snow Melt Duration from Passive Microwave Sensors

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2021-07-15
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Descriptive statistics for snow melt duration (SMD) for the period 1988-2016, including mean, standard deviation, and coefficient of variation. Units are the number of days per year. 

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This dataset provides the annual period of snowpack melting across northwest Canada; Alaska, U.S.; and parts of far eastern Russia at 6.25 km resolution for the period 1988-2016.
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High Latitude Annual Seasonal Snow Melt Onset from Passive Microwave Sensors

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2021-07-15
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Spatial extent of snowpack main melt onset dataset (MMOD) extending from the Russian Far East across Alaska into Canada's Northwest Territories and British Columbia. Source: Pan et al. (2021)

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This dataset provides the annual date of snowpack seasonal beginning melt across northwest Canada; Alaska, U.S.; and parts of far eastern Russia for 1988-2016.
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ABoVE: Frozen Lake Aerial Photographs Identify CH4 Seeps

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2021-06-13
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Location of the study area northwest of Fairbanks, AK, USA. The map shows (a) yedoma permafrost distribution and (b) yedoma lakes and terrain of the Goldstream Valley. Data sources include Strauss et al. (2016), Alaska LiDAR Dataset (USGS, 2018), Elevation Datasets of Alaska (DGGS Staff, 2013), and Walter Anthony et al. (2020).

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Orthophotographs of lakes near of Fairbanks, AK, identify open holes in lake ice that indicate the location of releases of CH4 from thawing permafrost.