Radiocarbon in CO2 and Soil Organic Matter from Laboratory Incubations, Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska, 2012

• Main Authors: Vaughn, Lydia, Torn, Margaret
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: 54 Environmental Sciences; Arctic; Barrow; Nome; north slope; permafrost; Seward Peninsula; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1418852; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1418852; https://doi.org/10.5440/1418852

Dataset includes one CSV data file of Delta14C measurements made from soil organic matter and CO2 from laboratory soil incubations of active layer soils collected in Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska in 2012. In addition to Delta14CO2, the dataset includes CO2 production rates and carbon and nitrogen concentrations. Samples were collected from intensive study site 1 areas A, B, and C, and the site 0 and AB transects, from specified positions in high-centered, flat-centered, and low centered polygons. The Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments: Arctic (NGEE Arctic), was a 10-year research effort (2012-2022) to reduce uncertainty in Earth System Models by developing a predictive understanding of carbon-rich Arctic ecosystems and feedbacks to climate. NGEE Arctic was supported by the Department of Energy?s Office of Biological and Environmental Research. The NGEE Arctic project had two field research sites: 1) located within the Arctic polygonal tundra coastal region on the Barrow Environmental Observatory (BEO) and the North Slope near Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska and 2) multiple areas on the discontinuous permafrost region of the Seward Peninsula north of Nome, Alaska. Through observations, experiments, and synthesis with existing datasets, NGEE Arctic provided an enhanced knowledge base for multi-scale modeling and contributed to improved process representation at global pan-Arctic scales within the Department of Energy's Earth system Model (the Energy Exascale Earth System Model, or E3SM), and specifically within the E3SM Land Model component (ELM).