Soil Organic Carbon Degradation during Incubation, Barrow, Alaska, 2012

• Main Authors: Herndon, Elizabeth, Yang, Ziming, Gu, Baohua
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Next Generation Ecosystems Experiment - Arctic, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (US); NGEE Arctic, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States) 2017
• Subjects: 54 Environmental Sciences; soil incubation;Organic Carbon Decomposition;transformations;Area A;Barrow Environmental Observatory;Barrow, Alaska;Utqiagvik, Alaska; Barrow; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5440/1168992; https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1168992/

This dataset provides information about soil organic carbon decomposition in Barrow soil incubation studies. The soil cores were collected from low-center polygon (Area A) and were incubated in the laboratory at different temperatures for up to 60 days. Transformations of soil organic carbon were characterized by UV and FT-IR, and small organic acids in water-soluble carbons were quantified by ion chromatography during the incubation (Herndon et al., 2015).