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Active Layer Thickness Derived from Airborne L- and P-band SAR

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Sites in Version 2 of the Permafrost Dynamics Observatory Project product. Green = data delivered in Version 2. Red = not delivered in Version 2 but will be delivered in future version. Yellow = not processed due to only L-band data being available.

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Estimates of seasonal subsidence, ALT, vertical soil moisture profile, and uncertainties at a 30-m resolution for 28 sites across the ABoVE domain are now available.

THREDDS NetCDF Subsetting Service Bug Fixed

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Unidata's THREDDS Data Server (TDS) is a web server that provides metadata and data access for scientific datasets, using a variety of remote data access protocols.

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A bug has been fixed in the THREDDS Data Server (TDS) NetCDF Subsetting Service (NCSS) that may, in rare cases, have returned incorrect results.

Tracking Permafrost with P-band SAR

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AirMOSS radar swaths flown in 2014 and 2015 in Alaska. In situ soil moisture and temperature profile measurements were obtained at the CALM (Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring) and the UAF GIPL (Geophysical Institute Permafrost Laboratory, University of Alaska Fairbanks) sites and used to validate AirMOSS data products.

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Airborne Microwave Observatory of Subcanopy and Subsurface (AirMOSS) radar data from Alaska are used to derive estimates of active layer thickness. Data from flights in 2014 and 2015 are now available.

Soil Moisture and Tree Measurements at Harvard Forest

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Upward-facing photo of the canopy at Harvard Forest (transect 2, plot 57) on 2012-10-18.

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Ground-based data collected at the Harvard Forest site was used to validate Airborne Microwave Observatory of Subcanopy and Subsurface (AirMOSS) soil moisture estimates.

Soil Moisture Datasets Become Fertile Ground for Applications

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Installation and maintenance of in situ soil moisture sensors require extensive fieldwork. Here Ruzbeh Akbar installs sensors at a SoilSCAPE site in California. (Photo Credit: University of Southern California's SoilSCAPE project)

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An update on the ORNL DAAC's Soil Moisture Visualizer (SMV) is featured in AGU's Eos, Earth & Space Science News.