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Boreal & Tundra Soil Respiration Data

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(A) A Soil Respiration Station (SRS), (B) a SRS data logger, and (C) a Forced Diffusion Chamber (FD chamber) deployed at a boreal forest site in central Alaska.

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Data collected by soil respiration stations installed at boreal and tundra sites are available from the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE).

Alaskan Fire Fuel Components

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Examples of fractional cover distribution in a tundra region near Lake Narvakrak in the Noatak River National Preserve: (a) very high-resolution imagery from Google Earth; (b) fractional cover of woody component; (b) fractional cover of herbaceous component; (d) fractional cover of nonvascular component.

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Maps of three major wildland fire fuel types are available from the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment.

MODIS-Derived Snowmelt Timing Maps, Version 2

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Mean snowmelt Day of Year (DOY) for the years 2001-2018 for North America. The DOY values for snowmelt timing were identified by observing the transition from snow-cover to no-snow for individual MODIS pixels throughout the annual melt period.

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The second version of snowmelt timing maps for North America is available for the period 2001 through 2018.

Arctic Whole Air Samples

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Arctic-CAP flights consisted of vertical profile maneuvers from near the surface to 6 km altitude around the ABoVE domain each month. Profiles were flown at each of the 25 locations listed across the top of this figure.

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Atmospheric gas concentrations collected during the Arctic Carbon Aircraft Profile (Arctic-CAP) campaigns are now available.

High Latitude Blue Sky Albedo

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Daily mean shortwave blue sky albedo for February 28, 2000. Blue sky refers to albedo calculated under real-world conditions with a combination of both diffuse and direct lighting based on atmospheric and view-geometry conditions.

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Daily “blue sky” shortwave albedo data were derived from the MODIS bi-directional reflectance distribution function.