Hourly temperature and surface water level at the Ikpikpuk delta from 5/2012 to 11/2012

• Main Authors: Benjamin Jones, Yu Zhang
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: ESS-DIVE: Deep Insight for Earth Science Data 2023
• Subjects: Coastal flooding; Temperature; Water level; Arctic; Permafrost; soil temperature; surface water depth; Burgess; Fuchs; Smith Bay; Ice; permafrost; Thermokarst; wedge*; Alaska
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/ess-dive-67fb451ec278075-20230125T193828409

This data package includes the soil temperature and surface water level observation in 2012 at the Ikpikpuk delta. The data file consists of the observation table with both the .xlsx and .csv file formats. The files can be accessed through several software tools, like Microsoft Excel, and text editors. This is raw data from the soil moisture sensors at 15 cm and 100 cm soil depth and a surface water sensor at the Ikpikpuk delta site in Alaska, US. The Ikpikpuk River delta is located on the Arctic Coastal Plain of northern Alaska (Study area fig). The Ikpikpuk River drains a land area of 15,330 km2, emptying into Smith Bay, and the delta is fan-shaped with an aerial extent of 106 km2 (Fuchs et al., 2018). This dataset supports the publication entitled "The thermal response of permafrost to coastal floodplain flooding" submitted to Environmental Research Letters (under review), where the observed water level is used as the upper boundary condition for the model simulations and the observed subsurface temperature is compared with the model simulations to answer the question about how coastal flooding affects permafrost thaw.