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Brooks Range Treeline 2-Hourly Air Temperature (2019-2022)
Measurements of air temperature at 2 meter height made along elevation gradients from the valley bottom to the alpine at 16 sites along a west to east gradient in the Brooks Range. The purpose of this dataset was to examine spatial variation in white spruce needle nutrition and gas exchange physiology across the Brooks Range and in relation to local microclimates.
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- PAR ID:
- 10468973
- Publisher / Repository:
- NSF Arctic Data Center
- Date Published:
- Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
- climate air temperature lapse rate inversion treeline
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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