Harmonized in-situ observations of surface energy fluxes and environmental drivers at 64 Arctic vegetation and glacier sites

• Main Authors: Oehri, J., Schaepman-Strub, G., Kim, J., Grysko, R., Kropp, H., Grünberg, I., Zemlianskii, V., Sonnentag, O., Euskirchen, E., Reji Chacko, M., Muscari, G., Blanken, P., Dean, J., di Sarra, A., Harding, R., Sobota, I., Kutzbach, L., Plekhanova, E., Riihelä, A., Boike, J., Miller, N., Beringer, J., López-Blanco, E., Stoy, P., Sullivan, R., Kejna, M., Parmentier, F., Gamon, J., Mastepanov, M., Wille, C., Jackowicz-Korczynski, M., Karger, D., Quinton, W., Putkonen, J., van As, D., Christensen, T., Hakuba, M., Stone, R., Metzger, S., Vandecrux, B., Frost, G., Wild, M., Hansen, B., Meloni, D., Domine, F., te Beest, M., Sachs, T., Kalhori, A., Rocha, A., Williamson, S.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2022
• Subjects: Arctic
• Online Access: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5014934

Despite the importance of surface energy budgets (SEBs) for land-climate interactions in the Arctic, uncertainties in their prediction persist. In-situ observational data of SEB components - useful for research and model validation - are collected at relatively few sites across the terrestrial Arctic, and not all available datasets are readily interoperable. Furthermore, the terrestrial Arctic consists of a diversity of vegetation types, which are generally not well represented in land surface schemes of current Earth system models. Therefore, we here provide four datasets comprising: 1. Harmonized, standardized and aggregated in situ observations of SEB components at 64 vegetated and glaciated sites north of 60° latitude, in the time period 1994-2021 2. A description of all study sites and associated environmental conditions, including the vegetation types, which correspond to the classification of the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map (CAVM, Raynolds et al. 2019). 3. Data generated in a literature synthesis from 358 study sites on vegetation or glacier (>=60°N latitude) covered by 148 publications. 4. Metadata, including data contributor information and measurement heights of variables associated with Oehri et al. 2022.