Spectral albedo and summer ground temperature of herbaceous and shrub tundra vegetation at Bylot Island, Canadian High-Arctic ...

• Main Authors: Domine, Florent, Belke-Brea, Maria, Picard, Ghislain, Arnaud, Laurent
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: albedo; Arctic; Baffin Island; Baffin; Bylot Island; Tundra
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10222606; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10222606

These data are in support of a preprint: Comparing spectral albedo and NDVI of herbaceous and shrub tundra vegetation at Bylot Island, Canadian High-Arctic Florent Domine, Maria-Belke-Brea, Ghislain Picard, Laurent Arnaud, and Esther Lévesque To be submitted in 2023. The spectral albedo of several vegetation assemblages on Bylot Island and in Mala River valley on nearby Baffin Island were recorded between 10 and 18 July 2015. The spectral range covered was 346 to 2400 nm. Surfaces were classified according to the main vegetation types. Classes used are graminoids, moss, Salix arctica, soil, and Salix richardsonii. S. richardsonii is the only truly erect species on Bylot Island. Transmission spectra of radiation through the S. richardsonii canopy were also recorded. S. richardsonii spectra were different depending on the location where they were measured and we present spectra for sites in active parts of an alluvial fan (Salix-G2), an inactive part of an alluvial fan (Salix-D1) and in a mesic area on Mala ...