Land Surface Data
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EROSION/SEDIMENTATION
GEOMORPHOLOGY
LAND TEMPERATURE
- AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 Surface Soil Moisture, Interpretive Parms, & QC EASE-Grids
- AMSR-E/Aqua L2B Surface Soil Moisture, Ancillary Parms, & QC EASE-Grids
- AVHRR Polar Pathfinder Twice-Daily 1.25 km EASE-Grid Composites
- AVHRR Polar Pathfinder Twice-Daily 25 km EASE-Grid Composites
- AVHRR Polar Pathfinder Twice-Daily 5 km EASE-Grid Composites
- Circumpolar Active-Layer Permafrost System (CAPS)
- CLPX NOAA FSL Rapid Update Cycle 20 km (RUC-20) Dataset
- CLPX-Ground: ISA Main Meteorological Data
- CLPX-Model: Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS) Data
- CLPX-Model: Local Analysis and Prediction System: 4-D Atmospheric Analyses
- CLPX-Satellite: MODIS Radiances, Reflectances, Snow Cover and Related Grids
- DMSP-F8 SSM/I Pathfinder Land Surface Products
- N-Factor Values and Air and Ground Surface Temperatures, Kuparuk River Basin, Alaska
- SMEX02 CODIAC Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) Data, Iowa
- SMEX02 Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) Station 2031, Ames, Iowa
- SMEX02 Watershed Soil Moisture Data, Walnut Creek, Iowa
- SMEX02 Watershed Vitel Network Soil Moisture Data, Walnut Creek, Iowa
- SMEX03 Little Washita Micronet Soil Moisture Data: Oklahoma
- SMEX03 Regional Ground Soil Moisture Data: Georgia
- SMEX03 Regional Ground Soil Moisture Data: Oklahoma
- SMEX03 Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN): Alabama
- SMEX03 Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN): Georgia
- SMEX03 Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN): Oklahoma
- SMEX03 Surface and Soil Temperature Measurements: Alabama
- SMEX03 Watershed Ground Soil Moisture Data: Oklahoma
LAND USE/LAND COVER
LANDSCAPE
- Barrow Area Information Database (BAID) Geospatial Data Sets, Barrow, AK, USA
- Borehole and environmental protection descriptive and numerical data, Yamal Peninsula, Russia
- Glacial Geology Map of the Toolik Lake and Upper Kuparuk River Region, Alaska
- Landscape Map of the Russian Arctic Coastal Zone
- Map of Natural (Landscape) and Permafrost Zones and the Net of Soil Temperature Meteorological Stations in Russia and Middle Asian Mountains
- Paleo-periglacial phenomena in Northwestern Europe
- Terrain and Vegetation of Imnavait Creek, AK: Classification and Mapping
- Terrain and Vegetation of Imnavait Creek, AK: Permanent Plots
- Terrain and Vegetation of Imnavait Creek, AK: Toposequence Study
- Terrain and Vegetation of Toolik Lake, AK: Permanent Plots
SOILS
- Active layer and permafrost properties, including snow depth, soil temperature, and soil moisture, Barrow, Alaska
- Active Layer and Permafrost Thickness, Soil Properties, and Periglacial Processes in the Gijiga Lowland, Russia
- Active Layer Depth and Snow Depth, Kuparuk Basin, 1995
- Active Layer Measurements in Tanana Flats, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
- Active Layer Monitoring, Arctic and Subarctic Canada
- Active layer thickness and ground temperatures, Svea, Svalbard
- Active-Layer and Permafrost Temperatures, Sisimiut (Holsteinsborg), Greenland
- Active-Layer and Permafrost Temperatures, Soendre Stroemfjord, Greenland
- Air and Soil Temperatures from Sites in Alaska 1995-2001
- Air Temperature and Thaw Depth, North Slope, Alaska: Field Measurements (1995-97) and Computed Values
- Alaska North Slope (Sagavanirktok River) Meteorological Data, 1994 and 1995
- Alaskan Air, Ground, Snow, and Soil Temperatures, 1998-2001
- AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 Surface Soil Moisture, Interpretive Parms, & QC EASE-Grids
- AMSR-E/Aqua L2B Surface Soil Moisture, Ancillary Parms, & QC EASE-Grids
- Annual Thaw Depths and Water Depths in Tanana Flats, Alaska
- Borehole and environmental protection descriptive and numerical data, Yamal Peninsula, Russia
- Borehole permafrost data, Kumtor and Taragai Valleys, Tienshan, Kazakhstan
- Borehole temperatures from mountain permafrost monitoring, Mongolia
- Borehole Temperatures from the HIHAT Project, Heilongjiang, China
- Borehole Temperatures from the North Slope of Alaska, 1977-2002
- Borehole Temperatures, Permafrost Thickness, and Water Content, Magadan City, Russia
- Canadian Geothermal Data Collection: Deep permafrost temperatures and thickness of permafrost
- Canadian Transect of Soils and Vegetation for the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map
- Catalog of boreholes from Russia and Mongolia
- Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring (CALM) Program Network
- Circumpolar Active-Layer Permafrost System (CAPS)
- Climate and Flux Data from Alaska Sites, 1998-2000
- Climate Data from Barrow and Atqasuk, Alaska, 1995-2001
- CLPX Airborne Gamma Snow and Soil Moisture Surveys
- CLPX NOAA FSL Rapid Update Cycle 20 km (RUC-20) Dataset
- CLPX-Airborne: Airborne GPS Bistatic Radar
- CLPX-Ground: Ground Based Passive Microwave Radiometer (GBMR-7) Data
- CLPX-Ground: ISA Corner Site Meteorological Data
- CLPX-Ground: ISA Main Meteorological Data
- CLPX-Ground: ISA Snow Depth Transects and Related Measurements
- CLPX-Ground: ISA Soil Moisture Measurements
- CLPX-Ground: Micrometeorological Data at the Local Scale Observation Site (LSOS)
- CLPX-Ground: Micrometeorological Measurements Over Snow, Ground-Based
- CLPX-Ground: Micrometeorological Measurements Over Snow, Tower Mounted
- CLPX-Model: Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS) Data
- CLPX-Model: Local Analysis and Prediction System: 4-D Atmospheric Analyses
- CLPX-Model: Rapid Update Cycle 40km (RUC-40) Model Output Reduced Data
- Continuous and Discontinuous Permafrost in Central Asia/Mongolia
- Controls on Carbon Flux in Moist Acidic Versus Nonacidic Tundra, Arctic LTER Data
- Coring Data from Drained Thaw-Lake Basins of the Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska
- Cryosolic pedons from Northern Canada
- Daily Air and Active Layer Temperatures From Permafrost Observatories in Alaska, 1986-2001
- Daily Soil Temperature and Meteorological Data for Sites at Toolik Lake Alaska
- Digital Database of Permafrost Thickness in Canada
- Digital Geotechnical Database for the Mackenzie Valley/Delta Region
- DMSP-F8 SSM/I Pathfinder Land Surface Products
- East Siberian Air, Ground Temperature, and Snow Depth Measurements, 1882-1994
- Eddy Flux Data, Alaska North Slope, 1994-1996
- Elevated Soil Temperature and Water Table Manipulation Data from Barrow, Alaska, 1999-2001
- Engineering-Geocryological Investigations in the Baikal-Amur Mainline Area, Russia
- Engineering-Geocryological Investigations in the Messoyakha-Norilsk Pipeline Area, Russia
- Engineering-Geocryological Investigations in the Northern Russia
- Engineering-Geocryological Investigations in the Upper Kolyma and Omolon Depression, Russia
- Engineering-Geocryological Investigations in the Yamal Peninsula Gas Fields, Russia
- Engineering-Geocryological Investigations in the Yamburg and Medvezhje Gas Fields, Russia
- Engineering-Geocryological Investigations in the Yana River Area, Russia
- Engineering-Geocryological Investigations in West Siberia, Russia
- Engineering-Geocryological Investigations, Bovanenkovo Gas Field, Yamal, West Siberia, Russia
- Engineering-geocryological Investigations, Urengoy gasfield, Western Siberia, Russia
- Engineering-geocryological investigations, Zapolyarnoye gas field, Western Siberia, Russia
- Engineering-geocryological Investigations, Zapolyarnoye-Urengoy, Western Siberia, Russia
- Frozen Ground Temperature Variations, East Andean Range, 1995-2005
- Geocryogenic Landforms and Processes on Marian Island, Southern Indian Ocean
- Geological and Geophysical Analyses of Permafrost and Groundwater Conditions, Fort Wainright, Alaska, USA
- Global Annual Freezing and Thawing Indices
- Global Land Use Data Sets
- Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P)
- Ground Temperature Database for Northern Canada
- Ground Temperatures from Deep Boreholes in the Ob River Valley, Russia (VK-1615 and ZS-124/124a)
- Ground temperatures, Liefdefjord, northwest Svalbard
- Ground Water Atlas of the United States: Alaska
- Growing Season Energy and CO2 Fluxes over a Larch Forest Tundra Ecosystem in Siberia
- Happy Valley Permanent Vegetation Plots
- Hierarchic GIS: Process, Pattern and Scale for Analysis of Arctic Ecosystems (ITEX)
- Land Resources of Russia -- Maps of Permafrost and Ground Ice
- Land Resources of Russia -- Maps of Soil Characteristics
- Landscape Map of the Russian Arctic Coastal Zone
- Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Site Data, North Slope of Alaska
- Meteorological and Hydrographic Data, Kuparuk River Watershed
- Meteorological, Radiation, Soil, and Snow Data from Alaska Sites, 1998-2002
- Meteorology, Vegetation, Radiation, Microtopography, and Thaw Depth Data, Alaska, 1995-1996
- Methane Flux Data, Alaska North Slope, 1994-1996
- Micrometeorology, soil temperatures (PermaAntarctica), Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands
- Model Output from MBL-GEM III for a Typical Tussock-Tundra Hill Slope, 1921-2100
- Model Output from MBL-GEM III for Typical Tussock Tundra in the Kuparuk River Basin, Alaska, 1921-2100
- Model Output From the 'Frost Index' Permafrost Model: Variations in Circumpolar Frozen Ground Conditions and Modeled Future Conditions
- Model Output from the Marine Biology Laboratory General Ecosystem Model (MBL-GEM) for Toolik Lake, 1921-2144, and the Kuparuk River Basin, 1995
- Model Output from the Terrestrial Ecosystem Model for Western Arctic Linkage Experiment (WALE)
- Modeled Carbon Responses of Tundra Ecosystems to Historical and Projected Climate
- Monitoring and Manipulation of Tundra Response to Climate Change, Arctic LTER, Toolik Lake, Alaska
- Monthly Summaries of Soil Temperature and Soil Moisture at Oil Contamination Sites in Antarctica
- Monthly Summaries of Soil Temperature and Soil Moisture at Sites in Alaska
- Monthly Summaries of Soil Temperature and Soil Moisture in China
- Monthly Summaries of Soil Temperature and Soil Moisture in Mongolia
- New Zealand Antarctic Soils Database
- Northern Circumpolar Soils Map
- Paleoenvironment, Geomorphic Processes, and Carbon Stocks of Drained Thaw-lake Basins in the Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska, USA, 2002-2005
- Permafrost and Gas Hydrates as Possible Sources of Methane, Alaska, USA
- Permafrost of the Usa River Basin
- Permafrost, palsas and frost-crack polygons, Salluit, Quebec, Canada
- Permafrost-related micrometeorology and soil temperatures, Qingzang Plateau, China
- Preliminary Investigation of Paleoenvironment, Processes, and Carbon Stocks of Drained Thaw-Lake Basins, Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska
- Regionalization for geocryological conditions and forecast, Yamal Peninsula , Russia
- Resource Allocation and Allometry of Plant Growth at Selected Sites in the Arctic: 2003-2005 Growing Seasons
- Response of Tundra Ecosystems to Altered Snow Regimes, Toolik Lake, Alaska, and Niwot Ridge, Colorado
- Seasonal frost and soil temperature data, Western Cape Mountains, South Africa
- Seasonal frost depths, midwestern USA
- Seasonal thawing of palsas in Finnish Lapland
- Shallow Borehole Temperatures, Ilulissat, Greenland
- Slope Ecology and Active Layer in the Central Yamal Peninsula, West Siberia, Russia
- SMEX02 Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AIRSAR) Data, Iowa
- SMEX02 Aircraft Polarimetric Scanning Radiometer (PSR) Data
- SMEX02 CODIAC Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) Data, Iowa
- SMEX02 Iowa Regional Ground Soil Moisture Data
- SMEX02 Iowa Satellite Vegetation and Water Index (NDVI and NDWI) Data
- SMEX02 Land Surface Information: Soils Database
- SMEX02 Sliced Core Soil Moisture Data, Walnut Creek Watershed, Iowa
- SMEX02 Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) Station 2031, Ames, Iowa
- SMEX02 Soil Moisture and Temperature Profiles, Walnut Creek, Iowa
- SMEX02 SSM/I Brightness Temperature Data, Iowa
- SMEX02 Watershed Soil Moisture Data, Walnut Creek, Iowa
- SMEX02 Watershed Vitel Network Soil Moisture Data, Walnut Creek, Iowa
- SMEX03 Little River Micronet Soil Moisture Data: Georgia
- SMEX03 Little Washita Micronet Soil Moisture Data: Oklahoma
- SMEX03 Regional Ground Soil Moisture Data: Alabama
- SMEX03 Regional Ground Soil Moisture Data: Georgia
- SMEX03 Regional Ground Soil Moisture Data: Oklahoma
- SMEX03 Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN): Alabama
- SMEX03 Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN): Georgia
- SMEX03 Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN): Oklahoma
- SMEX03 Surface and Soil Temperature Measurements: Alabama
- SMEX03 Watershed Ground Soil Moisture Data: Oklahoma
- Soil and Air Temperature at Forest and Tundra sites, Petite-Riviere-de-la-Baleine, Quebec, Canada
- Soil and Air Temperature at Robert-Bourassa and Laforge-1 Reservoirs, Quebec, Canada
- Soil and Air Temperature at Tantar, Boniface River, Clearwater Lake, Bush Lake, Quebec, Canada
- Soil and Air Temperature in a Palsa Field, Blanc-Sablon, Quebec, Canada
- Soil and Air temperature, Soil Water and Ice Content, Kangiqsualujjuaq (George River), Quebec, Canada
- Soil Descriptions and Soil Chemistry for LAII/ATLAS Winter Carbon Flux Sites, Alaska, 1992 and 1998-2000
- Soil Properties of Carbon-Flux Monitoring Sites in Northwestern Alaska
- Soil Survey along the Dempster Highway, Yukon Territory, Canada
- Soil Temperature and Moisture, Bylot Island, Quebec, Canada
- Soil Temperature and Stratigraphy: Short Range Radar Sites Geotechnical Database, Yukon and NWT, Canada
- Soil Temperature Monitoring Program, Denali National Park, Alaska, USA
- Soil Temperatures at Alexander Island, South Orkney Islands, South Georgia
- Soil Temperatures at Climatological Stations in Centre d'Etudes Nordiques, Quebec, Canada
- Soil temperatures at South Royalton, Vermont, USA
- Soil Temperatures for Happy Valley and Barrow, Alaska, USA
- Soil temperatures from Disko Island (Qeqertarsuaq/Godhavn), Greenland
- Soil Temperatures from the Radiobrightness Energy Balance Experiment (REBEX-1), South Dakota, USA
- Soil Temperatures, Toolik Lake, Alaska, 1995 and 1996
- Southern Hemisphere Working Group
- Terrain and Vegetation of Imnavait Creek, AK: Classification and Mapping
- Terrain and Vegetation of Imnavait Creek, AK: Permanent Plots
- Terrain and Vegetation of Imnavait Creek, AK: Toposequence Study
- Terrain and Vegetation of Toolik Lake, AK: Permanent Plots
- Thaw Depth and Vegetation Radiance Measurements, Happy Valley, AK, 1994
- The English Language Edition of the Geocryological Map of Russia and Neighboring Republics
- University of Wisconsin Antarctic Soils Database
- Upper soil temperatures in the Kolyma Highland
- Vegetation and Site Characterization, 1998-99 ATLAS Grid Transect, Northern Alaska
- Vegetation dynamics and geocryological conditions of the West Siberian Arctic, Russia
SURFACE RADIATIVE PROPERTIES
- ARCSS-LAII 1996 Aircraft Radiometric Data
- AVHRR Polar Pathfinder Twice-Daily 1.25 km EASE-Grid Composites
- AVHRR Polar Pathfinder Twice-Daily 25 km EASE-Grid Composites
- AVHRR Polar Pathfinder Twice-Daily 5 km EASE-Grid Composites
- CLPX NOAA FSL Rapid Update Cycle 20 km (RUC-20) Dataset
- CLPX-Ground: Ground-Based Infrared Images of the LSOS Site
- CLPX-Model: Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS) Data
- CLPX-Model: Rapid Update Cycle 40km (RUC-40) Model Output Reduced Data
- CLPX-Satellite: MODIS Radiances, Reflectances, Snow Cover and Related Grids
- CLPX-Satellite: Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR) Products
- GLAS/ICESat L1B Global Elevation Data
- GLAS/ICESat L2 Global Land Surface Altimetry Data
- High-Resolution QuickBird Imagery and Related GIS Layers for Barrow, Alaska, USA
- LAII Alaska Landscape Flux Survey NOAA/ATDD Long-EZ Aircraft Data
- Meteorology, Vegetation, Radiation, Microtopography, and Thaw Depth Data, Alaska, 1995-1996
- Program for Arctic Regional Climate Assessment (PARCA) Data Sets
- Reduced-Resolution QuickBird Imagery and Related GIS Layers for Barrow, Alaska, USA
- Soil and Air Temperature at Forest and Tundra sites, Petite-Riviere-de-la-Baleine, Quebec, Canada
- Soil and Air Temperature at Robert-Bourassa and Laforge-1 Reservoirs, Quebec, Canada
- Soil and Air Temperature at Tantar, Boniface River, Clearwater Lake, Bush Lake, Quebec, Canada
- Soil Temperature and Moisture, Bylot Island, Quebec, Canada
TOPOGRAPHY
- Active Layer Monitoring, Arctic and Subarctic Canada
- Alaska North Slope 100 m Digital Elevation Model (DEM)
- Antarctic 5-km Digital Elevation Model from ERS-1 Altimetry
- Antarctic Aerogeophysics Data
- Barrow Area Information Database (BAID) Geospatial Data Sets, Barrow, AK, USA
- Canadian Transect of Soils and Vegetation for the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map
- CLPX-Airborne: Infrared Orthophotography and LIDAR Topographic Mapping
- CLPX-Ground: ISA Main Meteorological Data
- CLPX-Ground: ISA Snow Depth Transects and Related Measurements
- CLPX-Ground: ISA Snow Pit Measurements
- CLPX-Ground: Snow Measurements at the Local Scale Observation Site (LSOS)
- DISP Yearly Satellite Photographic Mosaics of Greenland 1962-1963
- ETOP05 Elevation Data for Areas Greater than 50 degrees North
- Geomorphological Mapping, Wedel Jarlsberg Land, Svalbard
- GEOSAT Radar Altimeter DEM Atlas of Antarctica North of 72.1 degrees South
- GIS Data from the Alaska North Slope
- GLAS/ICESat L1B Global Backscatter Data
- GLAS/ICESat L1B Global Elevation Data
- GLAS/ICESat L1B Global Waveform-based Range Corrections Data
- GLAS/ICESat L2 Global Land Surface Altimetry Data
- Greenland 5 km DEM, Ice Thickness, and Bedrock Elevation Grids
- Happy Valley Permanent Vegetation Plots
- High-Resolution Radar Imagery, Digital Elevation Models, and Related GIS Layers for Barrow, Alaska, USA
- Meteorology, Vegetation, Radiation, Microtopography, and Thaw Depth Data, Alaska, 1995-1996
- Modeled Carbon Responses of Tundra Ecosystems to Historical and Projected Climate
- Program for Arctic Regional Climate Assessment (PARCA) Data Sets
- Radarsat Antarctic Mapping Project Digital Elevation Model Version 2
- RAMP AMM-1 SAR Image Mosaic of Antarctica
- Reduced-Resolution Radar Imagery, Digital Elevation Models, and Related GIS Layers for Barrow, Alaska, USA
- Roosevelt Island Bedrock and Surface Elevations
- SMEX02 Land Surface Information: Geolocation, Surface Roughness, and Photographs
- Subglacial Topography: Airborne Geophysical Survey of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica
- Surface Elevation and Ice Thickness, Western Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica
- Terrain and Vegetation of Imnavait Creek, AK: Classification and Mapping
- Terrain and Vegetation of Imnavait Creek, AK: Permanent Plots
- Terrain and Vegetation of Imnavait Creek, AK: Toposequence Study
- Terrain and Vegetation of Toolik Lake, AK: Permanent Plots
- Vegetation and Site Characterization, 1998-99 ATLAS Grid Transect, Northern Alaska
