Meteorological and Radiation Data, Kuparuk River and Nearby Watersheds, Alaska: Imnavait B site (IB) and Imnavait Weir (IH), 2017-2023 ...

• Main Authors: Youcha, Emily, Stuefer, Svetlana
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: NSF Arctic Data Center 2024
• Subjects: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > NET RADIATION; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED/WIND DIRECTION; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > HUMIDITY; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > LONGWAVE RADIATION; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SHORTWAVE RADIATION; EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW DEPTH; north slope; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a2d795c6m; https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi:10.18739/A2D795C6M

The data files in this data set contain climate information from sites on the North Slope of Alaska in or near the Kuparuk River basin. The data was collected for a hydrologic study of rivers in the North Slope region between 1985-present. Hydro-meteorological stations were established at various locations throughout the Kuparuk, but also in the Putuligayuk and Sagavanirktok watersheds. The variables collected at most stations were air temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, soil temperature, snow temperature, precipitation, snow depth, and radiation. In the Imnavait Creek watershed (headwaters of the Kuparuk River), the Imnavait B site (IB) meteorological station operated from 1986 to present. This data package contains meteorological data from the Imnavait B site (IB) station and snow depth from the nearby station in the valley bottom (Imnavait Creek weir [IH]) collected from 2017 to 2023. Variables in this data package include air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, ...