ABoVE: Methane Ebullition Hotspots in Frozen Lakes near Fairbanks, Alaska, Oct 2014

Anthony, K.W.; P. Hanke; P. Lindgren

This dataset includes maps of the locations and number of methane ebullition hotspots in 15 frozen lakes in the southern portion of the Goldstream Valley and the surrounding landscape just north of Fairbanks, Alaska, USA. Hotspots were identified from early winter high resolution aerial photographs acquired three days after lake-ice formation in October 2014. Hotspot ebullition seeps are defined as point-sources of high ebullition that release methane from lake sediments year-round. High rates of bubbling impede ice formation. In early winter, bubbling leads to dark, round open holes in lake ice which were visible in the aerial photos. This project investigated the role of theromkarst lakes in thawing of permafrost and mobilization of organic carbon in frozen soils.

There are 15 data files included in this dataset as compressed shapefiles (*.shp).

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Anthony, K.W., P. Hanke, and P. Lindgren. 2021. ABoVE: Methane Ebullition Hotspots in Frozen Lakes near Fairbanks, Alaska, Oct 2014. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1861

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Additional Info

Field Value
Identifier DOI: 10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1861
Project(s) The Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE)
Institute University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Source https://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dsviewer.pl?ds_id=1861
Publication Date 2021-03-31
Version 1.0
Product Maps of the locations and number of methane ebullition hotspots in 15 frozen lakes
Sensor
Files
  1. BigTrail_Hotspots_ARL_WIce_20141008.zip
  2. Cranberry_Hotspots_ARL_WIce_20141008.zip
  3. Deuce_Hotspots_ARL_WIce_20141008.zip
  4. Doughnut_Hotspots_ARL_WIce_20141008.zip
  5. Eagle_Hotspots_ARL_Wice_20141008.zip
  6. GENL1_Hotspots_ARL_WIce_20141008.zip
  7. GENL2_Hotspots_ARL_WIce_20141008.zip
  8. GENL3_Hotspots_ARL_WIce_20141008.zip
  9. GWNL1_Hotspots_ARL_WIce_20141008.zip
  10. Goldstream_Hotspots_ARL_WIce_20141008.zip
  11. Octopus_Hotspots_ARL_WIce_20141008.zip
  12. Reindeer_Hotspots_ARL_WIce_20141008.zip
  13. Smith_Hotspots_ARL_WIce_20141008.zip
  14. Snoopy_Hotspots_ARL_WIce_20141008.zip
  15. Stephens_Hotspots_ARL_WIce_20141008.zip
  16. Methane_Ebullition_Lakes_AK.pdf
Variables [Units]
  1. Hotspot_Co: number of hotspots detected at each point.
Region Southern portion of the Goldstream Valley and the surrounding landscape just north of Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
Spatial Reference EPSG:3338 NAD83 / Alaska Albers
Spatial Resolution 1–3 m
Spatial Coverage Goldstream Valley northwest of Fairbanks, AK, USA
Temporal Coverage 2014-10-08
Temporal Resolution Discrete
Format Shapefile
Is Supplement To

Walter Anthony, K.M., P. Lindgren, P. Hanke, M. Engram, P. Anthony, R. Daanen, A.C. Bondurant, A.K. Liljedahl, J. Lenz, G. Grosse, B.M. Jones, L. Brosius, S.R. James, B.J. Minsley, N.J. Pastick, J. Munk, J. Chanton, C.E. Miller, and F.J. Meyer. 2020. Decadal-scale hotspot methane ebullition within lakes following abrupt permafrost thaw. Environmental Research Letters 16 035010. http://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abc848
Related to

Anthony, K.W., P. Lindgren, P. Hanke, J. Cherry, and M.J. Engram. 2020. ABoVE: Aerial Photographs of Frozen Lakes near Fairbanks, Alaska, October 2014. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1845

EROS (Earth Resources Observation And Science) Center. 2017. Digital Orthophoto Quadrangle (DOQ). U.S. Geological Survey. https://doi.org/10.5066/F7125QVD

DGGS Staff. 2013. Elevation Datasets of Alaska. Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Digital Data Series 4. https://doi.org/10.14509/25239

OCM Partners. 2021: 2017 USGS 3DEP Lidar: Fairbanks, AK (QL1 & QL2) from 2010-06-15 to 2010-08-15. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/55358

Strauss, J., S. Laboor, A.N. Fedorov, D. Fortier, D. Froese, M. Fuchs, G. Grosse, F. Günther, J.W. Harden, G. Hugelius, M.Z. Kanevskiy, A.L. Kholodov, V.V. Kunitsky, G. Kraev, L. Lapointe-Elmrabti, A.V. Lozhkin, E. Rivkina, J. Robinson, L. Schirrmeister, D. Shmelev, Y. Shur, C. Siegert, V. Spektor, M. Ulrich, S.L. Vartanyan, A. Veremeeva, K.M. Walter Anthony, and S.A. Zimov. 2016. Database of Ice-Rich Yedoma Permafrost (IRYP). PANGAEA. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.861733

USGS (U.S. Geological Survey.) 2018. USGS Lidar Point Cloud AK FairbanksNSB QL1 2017 FB17 4205 LAS 2018: U.S. Geological Survey. https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5be30ff4e4b0b3fc5cf70b38

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