Resilience and adaptation to the effects of permafrost degradation induced coastal erosion - continuously observed ground temperatures, Alaska, 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; ALASKA; UTQIAGVIK; POINT LAY; WAINWRIGHT; NORTH AMERICA; Arctic; Ice; permafrost; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a2n29p820; https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi:10.18739/A2N29P820

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 ice-rich permafrost at local, regional, and circumpolar scales. 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 environment and next to the infrastructure/disturbed environment at Utqiagvik, Point Lay, and Wainwright in Alaska. 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. Update: Filename nomenclature has been changed from US_PIP_### to US_UTQ_### in order to separate different site location data. ...