Siewert, Matthias Benjamin; Lantuit, Hugues; Richter, Andreas; Hugelius, Gustaf (2021): Soil organic carbon, active layer depth and visible ground ice content for Herschel Island (Qikiqtaruk) [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.927861
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Abstract:
This dataset contains soil pedon data collected in 2015 on Herschel Island (Qikiqtaruk; 69°34′N, 138°55′W), Beaufort Sea, Canada. Large amounts of soil organic carbon (SOC) are stored in high-latitude ecosystems. Knowledge on storage and variability provides essential base information to asses the vulnerability of this SOC. In total 38 soil pedons were sampled along transects in three typical tundra terrain types common across the Arctic region. These terrain types (unit) are hummocky tussock upland tundra (HT-Tundra), non-sorted circles on upland tundra (NSC-Tundra) and ice-wedge polygon terrain (IWP-Tundra). A main transect was set up with increasing sampling distance from the center and complemented with a shorter crossing transect. This aimed to maximize the distances between individual soil pedons in order to test geostatistical properties of SOC variability. At each pedon location a 1 m wide soil pit was sampled and described using a soil horizon oriented approach. The soil pit was then divided in 10 cm intervals generating 11 sub-pedons. SOC storage was calculated for specific depth intervals SOC 0–30 cm, SOC 0–100 cm, SOCAL (SOC in active layer), SOCPF (SOC in permafrost), as well as the visible ice content for the permafrost section (mean_vis_ice). Additional data includes the depth of the permafrost table (depthPF) and the location of the sub-pedon within the periglacial landforms they occupy (landformLoc). For the active layer, the data was calculated based on perspective corrected images of the soil pit, while for the permafrost section homogeneous layering was applied.
Supplement to:
Siewert, Matthias Benjamin; Lantuit, Hugues; Richter, Andreas; Hugelius, Gustaf (2021): Permafrost Causes Unique Fine‐Scale Spatial Variability Across Tundra Soils. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 35(3), e2020GB006659, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GB006659
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 69.582335 * Median Longitude: -138.930965 * South-bound Latitude: 69.578454 * West-bound Longitude: -138.958847 * North-bound Latitude: 69.585151 * East-bound Longitude: -138.915702
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Parameter(s):
# | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
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1 | Position | Position | Siewert, Matthias Benjamin | Relative position of the subpedon within periglacial landform | ||
2 | Soil pedon | Pedon | Siewert, Matthias Benjamin | |||
3 | Soil subpedon | Subpedon | Siewert, Matthias Benjamin | Virtual subpedon located within the main pedon (unique identifier) | ||
4 | Transect | Transect | Siewert, Matthias Benjamin | Transect in which the soil pedon is located | ||
5 | Terrain | Terrain | Siewert, Matthias Benjamin | Tundra terrain type/unit in which the pedon is located | ||
6 | Position | Position | Siewert, Matthias Benjamin | Relative position of the subpedon within periglacial landform | ||
7 | Soil organic carbon storage | SOC storage | kg/m2 | Siewert, Matthias Benjamin | Soil organic carbon storage for the 0 - 30 cm depth interval | |
8 | Soil organic carbon storage | SOC storage | kg/m2 | Siewert, Matthias Benjamin | Soil organic carbon storage for the 0 - 100 cm depth interval | |
9 | Soil organic carbon storage | SOC storage | kg/m2 | Siewert, Matthias Benjamin | Soil organic carbon storage for the active layer depth interval | |
10 | Soil organic carbon storage | SOC storage | kg/m2 | Siewert, Matthias Benjamin | Soil organic carbon storage for the permafrost depth interval | |
11 | Ground-ice | Ground-ice | % | Siewert, Matthias Benjamin | Mean visible ground ice content in the permafrost depth interval | |
12 | Active layer depth | ALD | cm | Siewert, Matthias Benjamin | Depth of the active layer / permafrost layer | |
13 | UTM Easting, Universal Transverse Mercator | UTM east | m | Siewert, Matthias Benjamin | NAD83/UTM zone 7N; EPSG coder: 26907 | |
14 | UTM Northing, Universal Transverse Mercator | UTM north | m | Siewert, Matthias Benjamin | NAD83/UTM zone 7N; EPSG coder: 26907 | |
15 | LATITUDE | Latitude | Siewert, Matthias Benjamin | Geocode | ||
16 | LONGITUDE | Longitude | Siewert, Matthias Benjamin | Geocode |
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