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Ice wedge polygon occurrence and geomorphology from LiDAR elevation data, 2012 and 2014, south of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska...
We mapped the occurrence of more than one million ice wedge polygons over a landscape of approximately 1,200 square kilometers, just south of Prudhoe Bay in northern Alaska,...
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Spatial lake dynamics and lake-ice datasets of the Northern Seward and Baldwin Peninsulas in Alaska
The data publication contains supplementary data to the article "Supplementary Dataset to: The catastrophic thermokarst lake drainage events of 2018 in northwestern Alaska:...
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Population in the Arctic Circumpolar Permafrost Region at settlement level, 2017
We defined permafrost settlements as settlements located within the permafrost extent, as modelled by Obu et al. (2019). The permafrost extent is based on...
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Settlements located within the permafrost extent in the Arctic Circumpolar Permafrost Region, 2017
We defined permafrost settlements as settlements located within the permafrost extent, as modelled by Obu et al. (2019). The permafrost extent is based on... -
Quaternary deposits map of Yana-Indigirka and Kolyma lowlands tundra zone, R-55-57, based on Landsat imagery
The Quaternary geology map was created for the Yana-Indigirka (eastern part) and Kolyma lowlands, tundra and partly forest-tundra zones. The map corresponds to the nomenclature...
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Database of Ice-Rich Yedoma Permafrost (IRYP)
We synthesized data on the circum-Arctic and sub-Arctic distribution and thickness of Yedoma for compiling a preliminary circum-polar Yedoma map. For compiling this map, we used...
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Developing and Testing a Deep Learning Approach for Mapping Retrogressive Thaw Slumps (CA, RU)
In a warming Arctic, permafrost-related disturbances, such as retrogressive thaw slumps (RTS), are becoming more abundant and dynamic, with serious implications for permafrost...
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Distribution and morphometry of pingos, western Canadian Arctic, Northwest Territories, (CA)
GIS shape files including spatial and morphometric data of pingos in the western Canadian Arctic and accompanying Excel spreadsheet summarizing metrics for pingos of differing...
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The fractional land cover estimates from the Boreal–Arctic Wetland and Lake Dataset (BAWLD), 2021, Circum-Arctic
The Boreal and Arctic Wetland and Lake Dataset (BAWLD) provides estimates of fractional land cover of 19 land cover classes within 0.5° ×0.5° grid cells. The total area of the...
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Circumpolar Thermokarst Landscapes, 2015, Circum-Arctic
This data set provides the distribution of thermokarst landscapes in the boreal and tundra ecoregions within the northern circumpolar permafrost zones. This dataset provides an...
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Lake-DOC Database (PeRL-DOCv1), 1979-2017, Permafrost-Region
The pan-Arctic Permafrost-Region Lake-DOC version1 database contains surface water samples of lakes in the permafrost regions of Alaska (49.3 %), Canada (24.2 %), Greenland (3.2...
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Historic Lake Drainage from Remote Sensing Datasets, 1955-2017, Western Arctic Coastal Plain, Northern Alaska (US)
We identified all lakes larger than 10 hectares (ha) that drained completely or partially (greater than 25 %) between 1955 and 2017 using historical (original) USGS topographic...
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Distribution of pingos from an IfSAR digital surface model, 2002-2006, western Arctic Coastal Plain, Northern Alaska ...
A detailed attributed point feature shapefile of 1247 pingo locations was manually assembled from a 5m resolution digital surface model (DSM) derived from an airborne...
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Distribution of pingos from topographic maps, permafrost region, Siberia (RU)
A detailed attributed point feature shapefile of 6059 pingo locations in a 3.5 × 10⁶ km² region of northern Asia was manually assembled from 1:200 000 scale Russian...
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GTN-P (2015): Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost metadata for permafrost boreholes (TSP) and active layer moni...
The Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P) provides the first dynamic database associated with the Thermal State of Permafrost (TSP) and the Circumpolar Active Layer...
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Permafrost Region Pond and Lake Database (PeRL)
The Permafrost Region Pond and Lake Database (PeRL) presents the results of a circum-arctic effort to map ponds and lakes from modern (2002-2013) high-resolution aerial and...
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Database of Ice-Rich Yedoma Permafrost Version 2 (IRYP v2)
Ice-rich permafrost in the circum-Arctic and sub-Arctic, such as late Pleistocene Yedoma, are especially prone to degradation due to climate change or human activity. When...
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Lake Database from Landsat TM and ETM+,1970s, 2000s, 2013-2014, Western Alaska (US)
This vector data layer covers 6 major lake districts (Baldwin Peninsula, Kobuk Delta, Selawik Lowland, Northern Seward Peninsula, Central Seward Peninsula, and Yukon-Kuskokwim...
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Thermo-erosional valleys and streams in ice-rich permafrost lowlands from RapidEye, 2010, Buor Khaya Peninsula, Lapte...
The published data set provides an inventory of thermo-erosional landforms and streams in three lowland areas underlain by ice-rich permafrost of the Yedoma-type Ice Complex at...
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Thermo-erosional valleys and streams in ice-rich permafrost lowlands from Landsat, 2000, Hexagon, 1975, Lena Delta, L...
The published dataset provides an inventory of thermo-erosional landforms and streams in three lowland areas underlain by ice-rich permafrost of the Yedoma-type Ice Complex at...
