Soil Organic Carbon Degradation during Incubation, Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska, 2012

• Main Authors: Elizabeth Herndon, Ziming Yang, Baohua Gu
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: ESS-DIVE: Deep Insight for Earth Science Data 2017
• Subjects: soil incubation; Organic Carbon Decomposition; transformations; Barrow, Alaska; Utqiagvik, Alaska; Barrow Environmental Observatory; Area A; Arctic; Barrow; Nome; north slope; permafrost; Seward Peninsula; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/ess-dive-1d95d46a77f9648-20230830T173812179813

This dataset provides information about soil organic carbon decomposition in Barrow soil incubation studies. The soil cores were collected from low-center polygon (Area A) and were incubated in the laboratory at different temperatures for up to 60 days. Transformations of soil organic carbon were characterized by UV and FT-IR, and small organic acids in water-soluble carbons were quantified by ion chromatography during the incubation (Herndon et al., 2015). This dataset includes one pdf file and four csv files. The Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments: Arctic (NGEE Arctic), was a research effort to reduce uncertainty in Earth System Models by developing a predictive understanding of carbon-rich Arctic ecosystems and feedbacks to climate. NGEE Arctic was supported by the Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research. The NGEE Arctic project had two field research sites: 1) located within the Arctic polygonal tundra coastal region on the Barrow Environmental Observatory (BEO) and the North Slope near Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska and 2) multiple areas on the discontinuous permafrost region of the Seward Peninsula north of Nome, Alaska. Through observations, experiments, and synthesis with existing datasets, NGEE Arctic provided an enhanced knowledge base for multi-scale modeling and contributed to improved process representation at global pan-Arctic scales within the Department of Energy?s Earth system Model (the Energy Exascale Earth System Model, or E3SM), and specifically within the E3SM Land Model component (ELM).