Data Release associated with Data Series - DOI/GTN-P Climate and Active-Layer Data Acquired in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1998-2016

• Main Author: Frank E. Urban
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 2017
• Subjects: PERMAFROST; SNOW; MONITORING; CLIMATE; Alaska; National Petroleum Reserve; Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; Arctic; Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost; GTN-P; permafrost
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/cb77108e-dc09-4c3b-b367-35fd3ac206af

This release provides data collected by the climate monitoring array of the U.S. Department of the Interior on Federal lands in Arctic Alaska over the period August 1998 to July 2016; this array is part of the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (DOI/GTN-P). In addition to presenting data, this release also describes monitoring, data collection, and quality-control methods. The array of 16 monitoring stations spans lat 68.5N. to 70.5°N. and long 142.5°W. to 161°W., an area of approximately 150,000 square kilometers. Data collection is ongoing and includes the following climate- and permafrost-related variables: air temperature, wind speed and direction, ground temperature, soil moisture, snow depth, rainfall totals, up- and downwelling shortwave radiation, and atmospheric pressure. These data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in close collaboration with the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.