Permafrost cores and active layer pits on Herschel Island: core attributes, supplement to: Obu, Jaroslav; Lantuit, Hugues; Myers-Smith, Isla H; Heim, Birgit; Wolter, Juliane; Fritz, Michael (2017): Effect of Terrain Characteristics on Soil Organic Carbon and Total Nitrogen Stocks in Soils of Herschel Island, Western Canadian Arctic. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 28(1), 92-107

• Main Authors: Obu, Jaroslav, Lantuit, Hugues, Myers-Smith, Isla H, Heim, Birgit, Wolter, Juliane, Fritz, Michael
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2016
• Subjects: Event label; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; Elevation of event; Lithologic unit/sequence; Slope; Exposition; Vegetation height, mean; Bare ground; Core length; Sample amount; Thaw depth of active layer; Ice content; Carbon, organic, per area; Nitrogen per area; Density, dry bulk; Gravity corer; CA-Land_2013_YukonCoast; AWI Arctic Land Expedition; Permafrost Research Periglacial Dynamics @ AWI AWI_PerDyn; Arctic; Herschel Island; Myers; Smith Isla; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.859664; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.859664

Twelve permafrost cores and active layer pits were drilled/dug on Herschel Island in order to estimate the soil organic carbon and total nitrogen contents in the first 30, 100 and 200 cm of ground. The data are the core information obtained during sampling.