End-of-Winter Snow Depth, Temperature, Density, and SWE Measurements at Kougarok Road Site, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, 2022 ...

• Main Authors: Bennett, Katrina, Bolton, Robert, Busey, Bob, Crumley, Ryan, Gasarch, Eve, Thomas, Lauren, 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) 2023
• Subjects: 54 Environmental Sciences; Seward Peninsula, Alaska;Kougarok Road, Alaska; Arctic; Seward Peninsula; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5440/1888533; https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1888533/

Measurements of end-of-winter snow properties were collected at the NGEE Arctic Kougarok Road Site at mile marker 64 (KG_MM64) from April 2 to April 5, 2022. This dataset contains three *.csv data files of spatially distributed values of snow depth, snow water equivalent (SWE), and temperature at the snow surface and at the bottom of the snowpack. Data were collected toward the end of the winter season during early April, when the snowpack would be near its maximum. A Snow-Hydro MagnaProbe (http://www.snowhydro.com/products/column2.html) was used to improve collection efficiency and enhance spatial coverage. A user guide included as a *.pdf. This dataset is a continuation of the previous end- of-winter snow survey conducted at the Kougarok Road Site in 2018 (Wilson et al., 2021; https://doi.org/10.5440/1593874). The Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments: Arctic (NGEE Arctic), a research effort to reduce uncertainty in Earth System Models by developing a predictive understanding of carbon-rich Arctic ...