Soil Temperatures for Happy Valley and Barrow, Alaska, USA

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Entry ID

ARCSS038

Summary

This data set contains hourly and daily-averaged soil temperatures from Happy Valley and Barrow, Alaska, from 19 August 1993 to 31 August 2004. Data are in comma-delimited or space-delimited ASCII text format, and are available via FTP. The research project was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geography and Regional Sciences and Arctic System Science (ARCSS) programs, grant numbers OPP 9214897, SES 9308334, OPP 9529783, and OPP 9732051.

Data Set Citation

Dataset Creator: K. Hinkel
Dataset Title: Soil Temperatures for Happy Valley and Barrow, Alaska, USA
Dataset Release Date: 1998-01-012000
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, Colorado USA
Dataset Publisher: NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/arcss038.html

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1993-08-10
Stop Date: 1994-08-19

Start Date: 1995-08-12
Stop Date: 1995-08-18

Start Date: 1995-08-19
Stop Date: 1996-08-05

Start Date: 1996-08-11
Stop Date: 1997-08-16

Start Date: 1997-08-11
Stop Date: 1998-08-16

Start Date: 1998-08-11
Stop Date: 1999-08-16

Start Date: 2002-08-07
Stop Date: 2003-08-18

Start Date: 2003-08-05
Stop Date: 2004-07-31

Location Keywords

• CONTINENT NORTH AMERICA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ALASKA
• GEOGRAPHIC REGION ARCTIC

Science Keywords

• Cryosphere Frozen Ground Soil Temperature
• Land Surface Frozen Ground Soil Temperature
• Land Surface Soils Soil Temperature

Ancillary Keywords

• Soil Temperatures

Platform

• GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS

Instrument

• TEMPERATURE LOGGERS
• THERMISTORS

Project

• ARCSS/LAII/ATLAS Arctic System Science/LAII/Arctic Transitions in the Land-Atmosphere System

Data Set Progress

complete

Data Center

National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org

Data Center Personnel

Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:

• National Snow and Ice Data Center
• CIRES, 449 UCB
• University of Colorado

City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA

NSIDC Arctic System Science Data Coordination Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/arcss/

Data Center Personnel

Name: NSIDC ARCSS User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:

• National Snow and Ice Data Center
• CIRES, 449 UCB
• University of Colorado

City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA

NSIDC Frozen Ground Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/fgdc/

Data Center Personnel

Name: NSIDC FGDC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:

• National Snow and Ice Data Center
• CIRES, 449 UCB
• University of Colorado

City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA

Distribution

Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Size: 15 - 722 KB
Distribution Format: ASCII Text

Personnel

Kenneth M. Hinkel
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 1 513 556-3421
Email: Ken_Hinkel@compuserve.com
Contact Address:

• University of Cincinnati
• Department of Geography
• ML131

City: Cincinnati
Province or State: OH
Postal Code: 45221-0131
Country: USA

NSIDC User Services
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone: 1 303 492-6199 x
Fax: 1 303 492-2468 x
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:

• National Snow and Ice Data Center
• CIRES, 449 UCB
• University of Colorado

City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA

Related URL

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Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring program

VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
Permafrost and Snow Depth Data from Barrow, Alaska

VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Snow Depth Measurements from Barrow, Alaska, 1994

Reference

Brown, J., Hinkel, K.M. and F.E. Nelson. 2000. The Circumpolar active layer monitoring (CALM) program: Research designs and initial results. Polar Geography, 24(3), 165-258.

Brown, J., and P.L. Johnson. 1965. Pedo-ecological Investigations, Barrow, Alaska. Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Technical Report 159, Hanover, NH, 32 pages with appendices.
Kane, D.L., K.M. Hinkel, D.J. Goering, L.D. Hinzman, and S.I. Outcalt. 2001. Nonconductive heat transfer associated with freezing soils. Global and Planetary Change 29: 275-292.

Hinkel, K. M. 1997. Estimating seasonal values of thermal diffusivity in thawed and frozen soils using temperature time series. Cold Regions Science and Technology, 26, 1-15.

Hinkel, K.M. and F.E. Nelson. 2003. Spatial and temporal patterns of active layer depth at CALM sites in Northern Alaska, 1995-2000. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 108(D2),10.129/2001JD000927.

Hinkel, K.M., Nelson, F.E., Bockheim, J.G., Miller, L.M. and R.F. Paetzold. 2000. Spatial and temporal patterns of soil moisture and depth of thaw at proximal acidic and nonacidic tundra sites, north-central Alaska, U.S. In: Advances in Soil Science: Global Climate Change and Cold Regions Ecosystems, Chapt. 14, 197-209.

Hinkel, K. M., Outcalt, S. I. and A.E. Taylor. 1997. Seasonal patterns of coupled flow in the active layer at three sites in northwest North America. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 34, 667-678.

Hinkel, K.M., Paetzold, R.F., Nelson, F.E. and J.G. Bockheim. 2001. Patterns of soil temperature and moisture in the active layer and upper permafrost at Barrow, Alaska: 1993-1999. Global and Planetary Change, 29, 293-309.

Nelson, F.E., Hinkel, K.M., Shiklomanov, N.I., Mueller, G.R., Miller. L.L. and D.A Walker. 1998. Active-layer thickness in north-central Alaska: systematic sampling, scale, and spatial autocorrelation. Journal of Geophysical Research- Atmospheres, 103(22), 28963-28973.

Miller, L.L., Hinkel, K.M., Nelson. F.E., Paetzold, R.F. and S.I. Outcalt. 1998. Spatial and temporal patterns of soil moisture and thaw depth at Barrow, Alaska U.S.A. In: Proceedings Permafrost--Seventh International Conference, Centre d'etudes nordiques, Universite Laval, Quebec, 731-737.

Outcalt, S. I., Hinkel, K. M., Meyer, E. and A.J. Brazel. 1997. Applications of Hurst rescaling to geophysical serial data. Geographical Analysis, 29(1), 70-88.

Outcalt, S. I., Hinkel, K. M. and L.L. Miller. 1997. Modeling the magnitude and time dependence of nonconductive heat-transfer effects in taiga and tundra soils. In: International Symposium on Physics, Chemistry, and Ecology of Seasonally Frozen Soils. CRREL Special Report 97-10, pp. 98-104.

Outcalt, S.I., Hinkel, K.M., Nelson, F.E. and L.L Miller. 1998. Estimating the magnitude of coupled-flow effects in the active layer and upper permafrost, Barrow, Alaska U.S.A. In: Proceedings Permafrost--Seventh International Conference, Centre d'etudes nordiques, Universite Laval, Quebec, 869-873.

Paetzold, R.F., Hinkel, K.M., Nelson, F.E., Osterkamp, T.E., Ping, C.L. and V.E Romanovsky. 2000. Temperature and thermal properties of Alaska soils. In: Advances in Soil Science: Global Climate Change and Cold Regions Ecosystems, Chap. 16, 223-245.

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Metadata Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata Version: 9.7

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 1998-01-01
Last DIF Revision Date: 2011-08-31

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