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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... -
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... -
Detailed pedon data on soil carbon and nitrogen for the northern permafrost region
Soils in the northern high latitudes are a key component in the global carbon cycle; the northern permafrost region covers 22% of the Northern Hemisphere and holds almost twice... -
Land cover classification of tundra environments from Landsat, 2000-2001, Lena Delta, Laptev Sea Region (RU)
The study was based on land cover classification of three almost cloud free Landsat-7 ETM+ satellite images. The acquisition dates are 27 July 2000 (path 131, rows 8 and 9) and... -
Raster Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map (CAVM) from AVHRR, MODIS and elevation data
Land cover maps are the basic data layer required for understanding and modeling ecological patterns and processes. The Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map (CAVM), produced in... -
Aufeis (naleds) from 1958 historical maps and 2013-2017 Landsat-8 OLI images, Indigirka River basin, Siberia (RU)
The GIS database contains the data of aufeis (naleds) in the Indigirka River basin (Russia) from historical and nowadays sources, and complete ArcGIS 10.1/10.2 and Qgis 3*... -
Aufeis (naleds) from 1958 historical maps and 2013-2019 Landsat-8 OLI images, Chukotka region, Siberia (RU)
The GIS database contains the data of aufeis (naled) in the Chukotka region from historical and nowadays sources, and complete ArcGIS 10.1/10.2 and Qgis 3* projects to view and... -
Aufeis (naleds) from 1958 historical maps and 2013-2017 Landsat-8 OLI images, Kolyma River basin, Siberia (RU)
The GIS database contains the data of aufeis (naleds) in the Kolyma River basin (Russia) from historical and nowadays sources, and complete ArcGIS 10.1/10.2 and Qgis 3* projects... -
Content of carbon isotopes (¹³C and ¹⁴C) in organic carbon pools in terrestrial Siberia
The dataset consists of one xlsx file with four sheets, listing (1) ¹³C and ¹⁴C data of litter and organic layers in northern Russia, Scandinavia, Canada and Alaska; (2) ¹³C and... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Near-surface permafrost conditions from synthesis data, 1997-2016, Alaska
We compiled a near-surface permafrost temperature dataset from 72 monitoring stations in Alaska using data collected by the U. S. Geological Survey, the National Park Service,... -
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... -
Database of Global Peatland Extent and Carbon Stocks through the Last Glacial Cycle (130 ka to present)
We present the first synthesis of global peatland extent through the last glacial cycle (130 ka) based on >975 detailed stratigraphic descriptions from exposures, soil pits,... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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...