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Polygonal Tundra Geomorphology Map from Landsat time series, 2014, Alaskan Arctic Coastal Plain (US)
We mosaicked twelve LandSat-8 OLI satellite images taken during the summer of 2014, which were used in an object based image analysis (OBIA) to classify the landscape. We mapped...
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Dissolved methane and hydrochemical parameters in ice cores from 2017, Bykovsky Peninsula, Lena Delta
Data were analyzed to study the role of an winter ice cover for methane cycles of three different stages in the lake-lagoon-shelf transition in a region of rapidly thawing...
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Northern Circumpolar Soil Carbon Database, Alaska, geotiff- and netCDF-files
The Northern Circumpolar Soil Carbon Database version 2 (NCSCDv2) is a geospatial database created for the purpose of quantifying storage of organic carbon in soils of the...
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Methane fluxes, soil gas profiles and microbial activities in ponds at Samoylov, 2002 & 2013
Methane (CH4) production, oxidation, and emission were studied in ponds of the permafrost-affected polygonal tundra in northeast Siberia. Summer CH4 fluxes were measured with...
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Soil incubation data from ice-rich permafrost deposits in Northeast Siberia, 2014
CO2 and CH4 production in aerobic and anaerobic incubation in sediments samples from Muostakh Island (sample code MUO12), the Buor Khaya Peninsula (BK8), and Bol'shoy Lyakhovsky...
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Soil and incubation data of permafrost-affected soils in Samoylov, 2011 & 2013
The effects of oxygen availability, freezing and thawing, temperature, and labile organic matter (OM) additions on greenhouse gas production were studied in northeast Siberian...
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Methane production in laboratory incubations of Arctic soil, Utqiaġvik, Alaska, 2018
When wet Arctic tundra soils begin to freeze in the fall, an unfrozen layer remains between the frozen surface and deeper permafrost layers. This period is known as the zero...
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Laboratory soil incubation respiration rates from permafrost in subarctic Canada, 2013 & 2014
This dataset contains measures of laboratory soil incubation respiration rates from permafrost in subarctic Canada. Soil cores were sampled from a peatland plateau and a thawing...
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Greenhouse gas production and soil chemistry in soil Incubations after nitrogen addition, Seward Peninsula, 2018-2019
This dataset provides the results of laboratory soil microcosm incubation experiments conducted under anaerobic conditions with and without the addition of ammonium chloride...
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Methane fluxes from burnt and unburnt forests from permafrost in subarctic Canada, 2013 & 2014
This dataset contains methane fluxes from peatland plateaus and thawing peatland plateaus and from burnt and unburnt forests from permafrost in subarctic Canada. Methane fluxes...
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Soil respired radiocarbon as CO2 and CH4 from permafrost in subarctic Canada, 2013 & 2014
This dataset contains measures of soil respired radiocarbon as CO2 and CH4 from peatland plateaus and thawing peatland plateaus and from burnt and unburnt forests from...
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Geochemistry of incubated permafrost and seawater from the western Canadian Arctic
We present geochemical and hydrochemical information on individual permafrost and seawater samples from the Yukon Coast in the western Canadian Arctic used for an incubation...
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UAV-based methane data from Barter Island, September 2017, Barrow, 1986-2017, Alaska (US)
Arctic permafrost stores vast amounts of methane (CH4) in subsurface reservoirs. Thawing permafrost creates areas for this potent greenhouse gas to be released to the...
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Ground Temperature Map, 2000-2016, New Zealand
The product provides modeled mean annual ground temperatures (MAGT) at the top of the permafrost for New Zealand at 1 km spatial resolution. Permafrost probability (fraction...
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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...
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Distribution of pingos from an IfSAR digital surface model, 2002-2006, western Arctic Coastal Plain, Northern Alaska (US)
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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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,...
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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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Circumpolar raster grids of permafrost extent and geohazard potential for near-future climate scenarios
One of the consequences of warming climate is rising ground temperatures and degradation of perennially frozen ground, permafrost. Thawing of near-surface permafrost can cause...
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Northern Circumpolar Soil Carbon Database, Russia, geotiff- and netCDF-files
The Northern Circumpolar Soil Carbon Database version 2 (NCSCDv2) is a geospatial database created for the purpose of quantifying storage of organic carbon in soils of the...