Climatic measures in the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) sites at Barrow and Atqasuk, Alaska 2018

• Main Authors: Robert Hollister, Katlyn Betway
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2019
• Subjects: Alpine/tundra; Air temperature; Precipitation; Arctic ecology; Arctic; Barrow; Climate change; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A2S756K35

Arctic ecosystems are changing in response to arctic warming, which is proceeding more than twice as fast as the global average. The International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) was established in the early 1990s to understand the effects of warming and environmental variability on tundra vegetation properties and ecosystem function. The ITEX program has been extremely valuable for detection of changes in tundra plant and ecosystem responses to experimental warming and to background climate change across sites that span the major ecosystems of the Arctic These files contain data representing the climate of ITEX sites in Barrow and Atqasuk in a text tab delimited format. The data presented are hourly screen height temperature, precipitation, wind speed near the ground, and light intensity at Barrow and Atqasuk, Alaska.