Near-surface permafrost ground ice characteristics and ecological and physical drivers of transient layer ice content in discontinuous permafrost near Yellowknife, NT

• Main Authors: Paul, Jason, Baltzer, Jennifer L., Kokelj, Steve V.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Earth and Environmental Sciences; white spruce; Great Slave Lowlands; white birch; Yellowknife; tree survey; transient layer; permafrost; black spruce; ground vegetation survey; North Slave Region; Northwest Territories; Ice
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/sha256:97efaaa918f0ddfa6099e84b6c1f338f40656e2fbead021d23be4f7bf0191f65

These data were collected from 2014-2015 as part of a Master of Science thesis research project in an effort to characterise the near-surface permafrost ground ice content in the Great Slave Lowlands of the North Slave region of the Northwest Territories. The near-surface permafrost was assessed in...