Greenhouse gas production of incubated permafrost and seawater from the western Canadian Arctic

We present geochemical and hydrochemical information on individual permafrost and seawater samples from the Yukon Coast in the western Canadian Arctic used for an incubation experiment. The experiment mimicked erosion of permafrost coasts in the Arctic by mixing different kind of permafrost (i.e. or...

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Main Authors: Tanski, George, Wagner, Dirk, Knoblauch, Christian, Fritz, Michael, Sachs, Torsten, Lantuit, Hugues
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2019
Subjects:
Arctic
Carbon cycling
Coastal erosion
Greenhouse gases
permafrost
Event label
DATE/TIME
Sample ID
Carbon dioxide
Methane
Sampling permafrost
Gas chromatography
CA-Land_2014_YukonCoast
AWI Arctic Land Expedition
Permafrost Research Periglacial Dynamics @ AWI AWI_PerDyn
Yukon
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.905911
https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.905911
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Summary:We present geochemical and hydrochemical information on individual permafrost and seawater samples from the Yukon Coast in the western Canadian Arctic used for an incubation experiment. The experiment mimicked erosion of permafrost coasts in the Arctic by mixing different kind of permafrost (i.e. organic-enriched and mineral) with ambient seawater at temperatures of 4 and 16°C during the course of 4 months (the approximate length of an Arctic open-water season). The data sets contain information on basic geochemical parameters measured before and after the experiment and on the production of greenhouse gases, which include carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4). This data set contains information on the individual measurements of CO2 and CH4 (in ppm) with a gas chromatograph. The study aims at understanding the role of eroding permafrost coasts for the Arctic carbon cycle and budget.

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