Arctic Urban Risks and Adaptations (AURA): a co-production framework for addressing multiple changing environmental hazards, United States & Canada, 2022-2023 ...

• Main Authors: Nicolsky, Dmitry, Farquharson, Louise, Wright, Thomas
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: NSF Arctic Data Center 2024
• Subjects: PERMAFROST; FROZEN GROUND; SOIL TEMPERATURE; WILDFIRE SUPRESSION; ALASKA; CANADA; YUKON; NORTH AMERICA; Arctic; Canada; Fairbanks; Yukon; Climate change; permafrost; Whitehorse; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a2183444r; https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi:10.18739/A2183444R

This project is part of Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) which addresses converging scientific challenges in the rapidly changing Arctic. Specifically, the goal of this project, is to better understand the effects climate change imposes on society and the built environment and develop risk assessments for future adaptive planning. This dataset provides ground temperature data in the active layer and near-surface permafrost to provide a baseline for assessing the future changes in the near-surface temperatures in the natural and disturbed environment in the vicinity of the city of Fairbanks, Alaska, United States and the city of Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. Collected ground temperature data are intended to help researchers, communities and public with ongoing activities to mitigate a threat of thawing permafrost on the local and regional scale, and to provide spatial data for validation of climate scenario models and temperature reanalysis approaches. ...