Spatiotemporal dynamics of wetted soils across a polar desert landscape
Liquid water is scarce across the landscape of the McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV), Antarctica, a 3800 km 2 ice-free region, and is chiefly associated with soils that are adjacent to streams and lakes (i.e. wetted margins) during the annual thaw season. However, isolated wetted soils have been observed at...
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ftosti:oai:osti.gov:1286739 2023-07-30T03:56:32+02:00 Spatiotemporal dynamics of wetted soils across a polar desert landscape Langford, Zachary L. Oak Ridge National Lab. , Oak Ridge, TN . Computer Science and Mathematics Division. Climate Change Science Inst.; Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA . Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering Gooseff, Michael N. Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO . Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering Lampkin, Derrick J. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD . Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science 2021-08-27 application/pdf http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1286739 https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1286739 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102014000601 unknown http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1286739 https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1286739 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102014000601 doi:10.1017/S0954102014000601 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 58 GEOSCIENCES 2021 ftosti https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102014000601 2023-07-11T09:10:25Z Liquid water is scarce across the landscape of the McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV), Antarctica, a 3800 km 2 ice-free region, and is chiefly associated with soils that are adjacent to streams and lakes (i.e. wetted margins) during the annual thaw season. However, isolated wetted soils have been observed at locations distal from water bodies. The source of water for the isolated patches of wet soil is potentially generated by a combination of infiltration from melting snowpacks, melting of pore ice at the ice table, and melting of buried segregation ice formed during winter freezing. In this paper, high resolution remote sensing data gathered several times per summer in the MDV region were used to determine the spatial and temporal distribution of wet soils. The spatial consistency with which the wet soils occurred was assessed for the 2009–10 to 2011–12 summers. The remote sensing analyses reveal that cumulative area and number of wet soil patches varies among summers. The 2010–11 summer provided the most wetted soil area (10.21 km 2 ) and 2009–10 covered the least (5.38 km 2 ). Finally, these data suggest that wet soils are a significant component of the MDV cold desert land system and may become more prevalent as regional climate changes. Other/Unknown Material Antarc* Antarctica McMurdo Dry Valleys polar desert SciTec Connect (Office of Scientific and Technical Information - OSTI, U.S. Department of Energy) McMurdo Dry Valleys Antarctic Science 27 2 197 209 |
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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 58 GEOSCIENCES Langford, Zachary L. Oak Ridge National Lab. , Oak Ridge, TN . Computer Science and Mathematics Division. Climate Change Science Inst.; Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA . Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering Gooseff, Michael N. Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO . Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering Lampkin, Derrick J. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD . Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Spatiotemporal dynamics of wetted soils across a polar desert landscape |
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Liquid water is scarce across the landscape of the McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV), Antarctica, a 3800 km 2 ice-free region, and is chiefly associated with soils that are adjacent to streams and lakes (i.e. wetted margins) during the annual thaw season. However, isolated wetted soils have been observed at locations distal from water bodies. The source of water for the isolated patches of wet soil is potentially generated by a combination of infiltration from melting snowpacks, melting of pore ice at the ice table, and melting of buried segregation ice formed during winter freezing. In this paper, high resolution remote sensing data gathered several times per summer in the MDV region were used to determine the spatial and temporal distribution of wet soils. The spatial consistency with which the wet soils occurred was assessed for the 2009–10 to 2011–12 summers. The remote sensing analyses reveal that cumulative area and number of wet soil patches varies among summers. The 2010–11 summer provided the most wetted soil area (10.21 km 2 ) and 2009–10 covered the least (5.38 km 2 ). Finally, these data suggest that wet soils are a significant component of the MDV cold desert land system and may become more prevalent as regional climate changes. |
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Langford, Zachary L. Oak Ridge National Lab. , Oak Ridge, TN . Computer Science and Mathematics Division. Climate Change Science Inst.; Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA . Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering Gooseff, Michael N. Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO . Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering Lampkin, Derrick J. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD . Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science |
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Langford, Zachary L. Oak Ridge National Lab. , Oak Ridge, TN . Computer Science and Mathematics Division. Climate Change Science Inst.; Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA . Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering Gooseff, Michael N. Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO . Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering Lampkin, Derrick J. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD . Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science |
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Langford, Zachary L. Oak Ridge National Lab. , Oak Ridge, TN . Computer Science and Mathematics Division. Climate Change Science Inst.; Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA . Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
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Spatiotemporal dynamics of wetted soils across a polar desert landscape |
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Spatiotemporal dynamics of wetted soils across a polar desert landscape |
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Spatiotemporal dynamics of wetted soils across a polar desert landscape |
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spatiotemporal dynamics of wetted soils across a polar desert landscape |
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