Russian Historical Soil Temperature Data

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Entry ID

ARCSS078

Summary

This data set is a collection of monthly and annual average soil temperatures measured at Russian meteorological stations. Data were recovered from many sources and compiled by staff at the University of Colorado, USA, and the Russian Academy of Sciences in Puschino, Russia.

Soil temperatures were measured at depths of 0.02 to 3.2 m using bent stem thermometers, extraction thermometers, and electrical resistance thermistors. Data coverage extends from the 1800s through 1990, but is not continuous. Data are not available for all stations for the entire period of coverage. For example, data collection began at many stations in the 1930s and 1950s, and not all stations continued taking measurements through 1990.

This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Polar Programs (OPP) awards OPP-9614557, OPP-9907541, and OPP-0229766. Data are available as ASCII text files via FTP.

Data Set Citation

Dataset Creator: Tingjun Zhang, Roger Barry, and David Gilichinsky, compilers
Dataset Title: Russian Historical Soil Temperature Data
Dataset Release Date: 2001-01-01, updated 2006
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, Colorado USA
Dataset Publisher: National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
Data Presentation Form: ASCII text files
Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/arcss078.html

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1882-01-01
Stop Date: 1990-12-31

Location Keywords

• Continent Europe Eastern Europe Russia
• Geographic Region Arctic
• Geographic Region Polar

Science Keywords

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

Ancillary Keywords

• ARCSS078
• Arctic System Science Data Coordination Center
• ATM
• Bent Thermometers
• Electrical Resistance Thermistors
• Extraction Thermometers
• Historical Data
• National Science Foundation
• NSF
• NSIDC
• OPP-9614537
• OPP-9614557
• OPP9614537
• OPP9614557
• Permafrost
• Russian Hydrometeorological Stations
• Siberia
• Soil Temperatures
• Thermometers

Platform

• GROUND STATIONS
• GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS

Instrument

• THERMISTORS
• THERMOMETERS

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Data Center

National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org
Data Set ID: ARCSS078

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 Set ID: ARCSS078

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 Set ID: ARCSS078

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: CD-ROM
Distribution Size: 5MB
Distribution Format: ASCII text files
Fees: none

Personnel

Tingjun Zhang
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 303-492-6199
Fax: 303-492-2359
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
UCB449
City: Boulder
Province or State: Colorado
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA

R. G. Barry
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
449 UCB
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA

David Gilichinsky
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 7-096-7-732604
Fax: 7-096-7-790532
Email: gilichin@issp.serpukhov.su
Contact Address:
City: Pushchino
Province or State: Moscow Region
Postal Code: 124292
Country: Russia

NSIDC USER SERVICES
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
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

Related URL

ftp://adcc.colorado.edu/pub/projects/arcss078/
data ftp site

http://nsidc.org/data/arcss078.html
access to data and documentation

Reference

Gilichinsky, D.A., R.G. Barry, S.S. Bykhovets, V.A. Sorokovikov, T. Zhang, S.L. Zudin, and D.G. Fedorov-Davydov. 1998. A century of temperature observations of soil climate: methods of analysis and long-term trends. in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Permafrost, Yellowknife, Canada, June 22-27, 1998:313-317.

Gilichinsky, D.A., S.S. Bykhovets, V.A. Sorokovikov, D.G. Fedorov-Davydov, R.G. Barry, T. Zhang, M.K. Gavrilova, and O.I. Alexeeva. 2000. Use of the data of hydrometeorological survey for century history of soil temperature trends in the seasonally frozen and permafrost areas of Russia. The Earth Cryosphere 4(3):59-66.

Zhang T., R.G. Barry, D.A. Gilichinsky, S.S. Bykhovets, V.A. Sorokovikov, and J. Ye. 2001. An amplified signal of climatic change in soil temperatures during the last century at Irkutsk, Russia. Climatic Change 49(1-2):41-76.

State Committee of the USSR for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control. 1960-64. The Climatological Handbook of the USSR. Annual Meteorological Data, Vol. 1-2. Part VII. Soil temperature, fog, thunderstorms, blizzards and hail. Gidrometeoizdat, Leningrad.

State Committee of the USSR for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control. 1964-72. The Climatological Handbook of the USSR. The History and Physical-geographical Description of the Meteorological Stations and Posts. Gidrometeoizdat, Leningrad.

State Committee of the USSR for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control. 1970-78. The Climatological Handbook of the USSR. Annual Meteorological Data, Vol. 1-34. Part VIII. Soil temperatures, 1970-78. Gidrometeoizdat, Leningrad.

State Committee of the USSR for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control. 1966-90. The Climatological Handbook of the USSR. The Monthly Meteorological Report, Vol. 1-36, Part II, Numbers 1-13. Gidrometeoizdat, Leningrad.

State Committee of the USSR for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control. 1964-72. The Climatological Handbook of the USSR. Instructions for Meteorological Stations and Posts. Vol. 3, Part 1. Meteorological Observations at Stations. Gidrometeoizdat, Leningrad.

Metadata Name and Version

Metadata Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata Version: 9.7

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2001-07-20
Last DIF Revision Date: 2006-09-25

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