Baseline characteristics of climate, permafrost, and land cover from Samoylov Island, Lena River Delta, Siberia

• Main Authors: Boike, Julia, Kattenstroth, Britta, Abramova, Katya, Bornemann, Niko, Chetverova, Antonina, Fedorova, Irina V, Fröb, Katrin, Grigoriev, Mikhail N, Grüber, Maren, Kutzbach, Lars, Langer, Moritz, Minke, Merten, Muster, Sina, Piel, Konstanze, Pfeiffer, Eva-Maria, Stoof, Günter, Westermann, Sebastian, Wischnewski, Karoline, Wille, Christian, Hubberten, Hans-Wolfgang
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2013
• Subjects: AWI_PerDyn; Changing Permafrost in the Arctic and its Global Effects in the 21st Century; Evaporation; Lake/Pond; PAGE21; Permafrost Research (Periglacial Dynamics) @ AWI; precipitation; snow density; soil temperature; water temperature; wind speed; Arctic; lena river; permafrost; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.806233; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.806233

Samoylov Island is centrally located within the Lena River Delta at 72° N, 126° E and lies within the Siberian zone of continuous permafrost. The landscape on Samoylov Island consists mainly of late Holocene river terraces with polygonal tundra, ponds and lakes, and an active floodplain. The island...