Lake-DOC Database (PeRL-DOCv1), 1979-2017, Permafrost-Region

Stolpmann, Lydia; Coch, Caroline; Morgenstern, Anne; Boike, Julia; Fritz, Michael; Herzschuh, Ulrike; Stoof-Leichsenring, Kathleen Rosmarie; Dvornikov, Yury; Heim, Birgit; Lenz, Josefine; Larsen, Amy; Walter Anthony, Katey M.; Jones, Benjamin; Frey, Karen; Grosse, Guido

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 %) and Siberia (23.3 %). It includes concentrations of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) for each of the 1,833 lakes of our synthesis dataset. The lakes of the dataset are located in permafrost regions between 59.2° and 82.5° northern latitude and were sampled between the years 1979 and 2017. We synthesised published datasets and unpublished samples from the author team. We assigned the following information to each lake using existing secondary environmental parameter datasets:

  • permafrost zone (Brown et al., 1997; Jorgenson et al., 2008),
  • ecoregion (Olson et al., 2004),
  • deposit type (Fulton, 1995; Nielsen, 2010; Petrov et al., 2014; Strauss et al., 2016),
  • ground ice content (Brown et al., 1997; Jorgenson et al., 2008), and
  • soil organic carbon content (Hugelius et al., 2014).

The lakes cover the full range of permafrost extent from the isolated permafrost to continuous permafrost zone. They are located in the boreal forest ecoregion, in the tundra ecoregion and in the boreal-tundra transition zone. For a regionalization we subdivided the data into 13 study areas (22 sites).

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Field Value
Identifier DOI:10.1594/PANGAEA.932262
Project(s) NUNATARYUK, Permafrost thaw and the changing Arctic coast, science for socioeconomic adaptation (NUNATARYUK), Changing Permafrost in the Arctic and its Global Effects in the 21st Century (PAGE21), Rapid Permafrost Thaw in a Warming Arctic and Impacts on the Soil Organic Carbon Pool (PETA-CARB)
Institute AWI Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
Source https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.932262
Publication Date 2021-06-07
Version 1.0
Product Lake-DOC version1 Database
Sensor
Files
  1. Permafrost-Region Lake-DOC version1 Database - Shapefile
  2. Permafrost-Region Lake-DOC version1 Database - Tab delimited text file
  3. Permafrost-Region Lake-DOC version1 Database - CSV file
Variables [Units]
  1. Event
  2. Sample ID (of lake)
  3. Sampling date
  4. Reference (or sample collector if data is unpublished)
  5. Campaign
  6. Region
  7. Area
  8. Site
  9. Latitude
  10. Longitude
  11. State (Permafrost extent surrounding each lake)[continuous, discontinuous, sporadic, isolated]
  12. Ecoregion (Ecoregion for each lake) [tundra, boreal forest, boreal-tundra transition]
  13. DOC [mg/l]
  14. Deposit type
  15. Ground ice content (Surrounding ground ice content of each lake) [high, moderate, low, variable]
  16. SOC (0-100 cm depth) [kg/m²]
  17. SOC (100-200 cm depth) [kg/m²]
  18. SOC (200-300 cm depth) [kg/m²]
  19. SOC (0-300 cm depth) [kg/m²]
Region Permafrost Region
Spatial Reference EPSG:4326 WGS 84
Spatial Resolution
Spatial Coverage Latitude 59.23 to 82.51, Longitude -187.848 to 168.738
Temporal Coverage 1979-2017
Temporal Resolution
Format Tab-delimited text, Shapefile
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Stolpmann, Lydia; Coch, Caroline; Morgenstern, Anne; Boike, Julia; Fritz, Michael; Herzschuh, Ulrike; Stoof-Leichsenring, Kathleen Rosmarie; Dvornikov, Yury; Heim, Birgit; Lenz, Josefine; Larsen, Amy; Walter Anthony, Katey M; Jones, Benjamin; Frey, Karen; Grosse, Guido (2021): First pan-Arctic assessment of dissolved organic carbon in lakes of the permafrost region. Biogeosciences, 18(12), 3917-3936, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-3917-2021
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Strauss, Jens; Laboor, Sebastian; Fedorov, Alexander N; Fortier, Daniel; Froese, Duane G; Fuchs, Matthias; Grosse, Guido; Günther, Frank; Harden, Jennifer W; Hugelius, Gustaf; Kanevskiy, Mikhail Z; Kholodov, Alexander L; Kunitsky, Victor V; Kraev, Gleb; Lapointe-Elmrabti, Lyna; Lozhkin, Anatoly V; Rivkina, Elizaveta; Robinson, Joel; Schirrmeister, Lutz; Shmelev, Denis; Shur, Yuri; Siegert, Christine; Spektor, Valentin; Ulrich, Mathias; Vartanyan, Sergey L; Veremeeva, Alexandra; Walter Anthony, Katey M; Zimov, Sergey A (2016): Database of Ice-Rich Yedoma Permafrost (IRYP). PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.861733

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