Lake basin water level and ground temperature data in Arctic Alaska, 2019-2020

• Main Author: Christopher Arp
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2020
• Subjects: Alaska; lakes; wetlands; permafrost; temperature; hydrology; Arctic; Climate change; Ice; Thermokarst
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/urn:uuid:8c815137-7a4e-4414-a40b-358d3a07c8e1

Lakes are abundant features on coastal plains of the Arctic and most are termed "thermokarst" because they form in ice-rich permafrost and gradually expand over time. The dynamic nature of thermokarst lakes also makes them prone to catastrophic drainage and abrupt conversion to wetlands, c...