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This work coordinates data collection using standard equipment and protocols at North American and Russian sites. These data sets provide the baseline to assess the future rates of change in near-surface permafrost temperatures and permafrost boundaries, and to provide spatial data for validation of climate scenario models and temperature reanalysis approaches. The work represents the United States (US) contribution to the ongoing activities of the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost that obtains temperatures in a large number of globally distributed monitoring sites in order to provide a snapshot of permafrost temperatures in both time and space. The US National Science Foundation (NSF) funded this work with award #0520578, #0632400, #0856864, and #1304271.
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Network of permafrost temperature observations in Russia, 2021-2022.
This work coordinates data collection using standard equipment and protocols at the Alaskan and Russian borehole sites. These borehole temperature data sets provide the baseline to reconstruct past surface temperatures, to assess the future rates of change in near-surface permafrost temperatures and permafrost boundaries, and to provide spatial data for validation of climate scenario models and temperature reanalysis approaches. This represents the Russia contribution to the ongoing activities of Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost that obtains temperatures in a large number of globally distributed boreholes in order to provide a snapshot of permafrost temperatures in both time and space. Included are files with the depth, temperature, and date of soil sampled at a number of sites. Site information (site name, latitude, longitude) by file name can be found in the file 'metadata_2022.csv'.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1832238
- PAR ID:
- 10508253
- Publisher / Repository:
- NSF Arctic Data Center
- Date Published:
- Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
- Permafrost Ground Temperature
- Format(s):
- Medium: X Other: text/xml
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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