NGEE Arctic Tram: Overview of Tram-mounted Instruments, Co-located Data, Measurement Position, Elevation and Polygon Characterization, Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska, 2014-2018 ...

• Main Authors: Torn, Margaret, Dafflon, Baptiste, Dengel, Sigrid, Curtis, Bryan, Chafe, Oriana, Moyes, Andrew, Serbin, Shawn, Lewin, Keith, Breen, Amy, Velliquette, Terri, Hook, Les, Wullschleger, Stan
• 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) 2019
• Subjects: 54 Environmental Sciences; plant communities;vegetation;elevation;microtopography;topography;Utqiagvik, Alaska;North Slope, Alaska;Barrow Environmental Observatory;BEO;Barrow, Alaska; Alaska North Slope; Arctic; Barrow; north slope; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5440/1558782; https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1558782/

The NGEE-Arctic Tram operated from 2014 - 2018. It was installed on the Barrow Environmental Observatory in Barrow, Alaska in late May of 2014 and operated through mid-November 2014. The subsequent 2015 through 2018 years followed a similar schedule, but with different deployment dates and data gaps, with the goal always to capture the surface dynamics of the snow melt, growing, and freeze-up seasons. This Tram overview dataset has three objectives: (1) provide new data users with a brief description of the Tram system and its research purposes; (2) provide generally useful Tram site characterization details, including measurement position ground surface elevation, characteristics of the Arctic polygonal tundra under the Tram, vegetation community composition (future), and derived image products; and (3) reference all of the data products and archived datasets that were collected with the Tram-mounted sensors and co-located instruments. This overview dataset will be updated as new Tram products become ...