Description of Data Files

Dates are presented as dd.m. yyyy hh:hh

Ground temperature and active layer data from Svalbard

• File: svalsl1.dat
• Time period: 07/06/1990 - 31/08/1990
• Location: SPE1 site, Svalbard
• Fields: Date and Time, soil temperature at -50cm. soil temperature at -20cm, soil temperature at -10 cm, soil temperature at -5cm soil temperature at -2cm

• File: svalsl2.dat
• Time period: 23/05/1991 - 24/07/1991
• Location: SPE1 site, Svalbard
• Fields: Date and time, soil temperature at -50cm, soil temperature at -40cm, soil temperature at -10cm, soil temperature at -5cm , soil temperature at -2cm, soil temperature at 0cm

• File: svalsl3.dat
• Time period: 11/07/1990 - 23/08/1990
• Location: SPE2 site, Svalbard
• Fields: Date and time, soil temperature at -10 cm, soil temperature at -4cm, soil temperature at -2 cm, soil temperature at -2 cm, soil temperature at -1 cm