Publication Date:
2024-06-09
Description:
Despite the importance of surface energy budgets (SEBs) for land-climate interactions in the Arctic, uncertainties in their prediction persist. In situ observational data of SEB components - useful for research and model validation - are collected at relatively few sites across the terrestrial Arctic, and not all available datasets are readily interoperable. Furthermore, the terrestrial Arctic consists of a diversity of vegetation types, which are generally not well represented in land surface schemes of current Earth system models.
This dataset describes the environmental conditions for 64 tundra and glacier sites (〉=60°N latitude) across the Arctic, for which in situ measurements of surface energy budget components were harmonized (see Oehri et al. 2022). These environmental conditions are (proxies of) potential drivers of SEB-components and could therefore be called SEB-drivers. The associated environmental conditions, include the vegetation types graminoid tundra, prostrate dwarf-shrub tundra, erect-shrub tundra, wetland complexes, barren complexes (≤ 40% horizontal plant cover), boreal peat bogs and glacier. These land surface types (apart from boreal peat bogs) correspond to the main classification units of the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map (CAVM, Raynolds et al. 2019). For each site, additional climatic and biophysical variables are available, including cloud cover, snow cover duration, permafrost characteristics, climatic conditions and topographic conditions.
Keywords:
Arctic; Arctic_SEB_CA-SCB; Arctic_SEB_CP1; Arctic_SEB_Dye-2; Arctic_SEB_EGP; Arctic_SEB_FI-Lom; Arctic_SEB_GL-NuF; Arctic_SEB_GL-ZaF; Arctic_SEB_GL-ZaH; Arctic_SEB_KAN_B; Arctic_SEB_KAN_L; Arctic_SEB_KAN_M; Arctic_SEB_KAN_U; Arctic_SEB_KPC_L; Arctic_SEB_KPC_U; Arctic_SEB_MIT; Arctic_SEB_NASA-E; Arctic_SEB_NASA-SE; Arctic_SEB_NASA-U; Arctic_SEB_NUK_K; Arctic_SEB_NUK_L; Arctic_SEB_NUK_N; Arctic_SEB_NUK_U; Arctic_SEB_QAS_A; Arctic_SEB_QAS_L; Arctic_SEB_QAS_M; Arctic_SEB_QAS_U; Arctic_SEB_RU-Che; Arctic_SEB_RU-Cok; Arctic_SEB_RU-Sam; Arctic_SEB_RU-Tks; Arctic_SEB_RU-Vrk; Arctic_SEB_Saddle; Arctic_SEB_SCO_L; Arctic_SEB_SCO_U; Arctic_SEB_SE-St1; Arctic_SEB_SJ-Adv; Arctic_SEB_SJ-Blv; Arctic_SEB_SouthDome; Arctic_SEB_Summit; Arctic_SEB_TAS_A; Arctic_SEB_TAS_L; Arctic_SEB_TAS_U; Arctic_SEB_THU_L; Arctic_SEB_THU_U; Arctic_SEB_Tunu-N; Arctic_SEB_UPE_L; Arctic_SEB_UPE_U; Arctic_SEB_US-A03; Arctic_SEB_US-A10; Arctic_SEB_US-An1; Arctic_SEB_US-An2; Arctic_SEB_US-An3; Arctic_SEB_US-Atq; Arctic_SEB_US-Brw; Arctic_SEB_US-EML; Arctic_SEB_US-HVa; Arctic_SEB_US-ICh; Arctic_SEB_US-ICs; Arctic_SEB_US-ICt; Arctic_SEB_US-Ivo; Arctic_SEB_US-NGB; Arctic_SEB_US-Upa; Arctic_SEB_US-xHE; Arctic_SEB_US-xTL; ArcticTundraSEB; Arctic Tundra Surface Energy Budget; Aspect; Aspect, coefficient of variation; Calculated average/mean values; Cloud cover; Cloud cover, standard deviation; Cloud top pressure; Cloud top pressure, standard deviation; Cloud top temperature; Cloud top temperature, standard deviation; Conrad's continentality index; Daily maximum; Daily mean; Data source; Date/Time of event; dry tundra; Eddy covariance; eddy heat flux; ELEVATION; Elevation, standard deviation; Event label; Field observation; glacier; graminoids; ground heat flux and net radiation; harmonized data; high latitude; Humidity, relative; Land-Atmosphere; Land-cover; Land cover classes; Land cover type; latent and sensible heat; latent heat flux; LATITUDE; Location ID; LONGITUDE; longwave radiation; Mean values; Median values; meteorological data; Number of vegetation types; observatory data; Peat bog; Permafrost, type; Permafrost extent; Permafrost ice content, description; Precipitation; Precipitation, coefficient of variation; Precipitation, daily, maximum; Precipitation, snow; Precipitation, sum; Pressure, atmospheric; p-value; Radiation fluxes; Radiative energy budget; Reference/source; sensible heat flux; Shannon Diversity Index; Shannon Diversity Index, maximum; shortwave radiation; shrub tundra; Site; Slope; Slope, coefficient of variation; Slope, mathematical; Snow, onset, day of the year; Snow cover, number of days; Snowfall, coefficient of variation; Snow-free days; Snow type; Soil water content, volumetric; Species present; Summer warmth index; surface energy balance; synthetic data; Temperature, air, annual mean; Temperature, air, coefficient of variation; Temperature, annual mean range; tundra vegetation; Type of study; Uniform resource locator/link to reference; Vapour pressure deficit; Vegetation type; wetland; Wind speed; Zone
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 4705 data points
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