Baseline characteristics of climate, permafrost, and land cover from Samoylov Island, Lena River Delta, Siberia ...

• Main Authors: Boike, Julia, Kattenstroth, Britta, Abramova, Katya, Bornemann, Niko, Chetverova, Antonina, Fedorova, Irina V, Fröb, Katrin, Grigoriev, Mikhail N, Grüber, Maren, Kutzbach, Lars, Langer, Moritz, Minke, Merten, Muster, Sina, Piel, Konstanze, Pfeiffer, Eva-Maria, Stoof, Günter, Westermann, Sebastian, Wischnewski, Karoline, Wille, Christian, Hubberten, Hans-Wolfgang
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2013
• Subjects: Evaporation; Lake/Pond; precipitation; snow density; soil temperature; water temperature; wind speed; Changing Permafrost in the Arctic and its Global Effects in the 21st Century PAGE21; Permafrost Research Periglacial Dynamics @ AWI AWI_PerDyn; lena river; permafrost; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.806233; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.806233

Samoylov Island is centrally located within the Lena River Delta at 72° N, 126° E and lies within the Siberian zone of continuous permafrost. The landscape on Samoylov Island consists mainly of late Holocene river terraces with polygonal tundra, ponds and lakes, and an active floodplain. The island has been the focus of numerous multidisciplinary studies since 1993, which have focused on climate, land cover, ecology, hydrology, permafrost and limnology. This paper aims to provide a framework for future studies by describing the characteristics of the island's meteorological parameters (temperature, radiation and snow cover), soil temperature, and soil moisture. The land surface characteristics have been described using high resolution aerial images in combination with data from ground-based observations. Of note is that deeper permafrost temperatures have increased between 0.3 to 1.3 °C over the last five years. However, no clear warming of air and active layer temperatures is detected since 1998, though ... : Supplement to: Boike, Julia; Kattenstroth, Britta; Abramova, Katya; Bornemann, Niko; Chetverova, Antonina; Fedorova, Irina V; Fröb, Katrin; Grigoriev, Mikhail N; Grüber, Maren; Kutzbach, Lars; Langer, Moritz; Minke, Merten; Muster, Sina; Piel, Konstanze; Pfeiffer, Eva-Maria; Stoof, Günter; Westermann, Sebastian; Wischnewski, Karoline; Wille, Christian; Hubberten, Hans-Wolfgang (2013): Baseline characteristics of climate, permafrost and land cover from a new permafrost observatory in the Lena River Delta, Siberia (1998-2011). Biogeosciences, 10(3), 2105-2128 ...