Citation:

PANGAEA.967651 (dataset in review)

Name: Soil carbon and nitrogen data from Arctic river deltas
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Arctic; Carbon; delta; Nitrogen; Permafrost

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Abstract:

This data set contains the data for 1,571 soil samples from Arctic river deltas including %organic carbon, %nitrogen, bulk density, water/ice content and calculated carbon and nitrogen density (in kg m-3). This data is a synthesis of available soil samples from Arctic river deltas and served as main input to calculate the carbon and nitrogen stock for frozen and non-frozen deposits in Arctic river deltas. The data table is related to 1) (doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.968905) and includes a reference to the original archived data (if available). Since the data set is a synthesis of many different studies, not all the samples contain all of the information. However, for 99% of the samples, organic carbon values are available and for 87% of all the samples, total nitrogen values are available. If some data are not available for a sample, the cell is left empty in the data set.

Keyword(s):

Arctic; Carbon; delta; Nitrogen; Permafrost

Related to:

Fuchs, Matthias; et al. (in prep.): Large stocks of permafrost soil organic carbon and nitrogen in Arctic river deltas.

Source:

Boike, Julia; Nitzbon, Jan; Anders, Katharina; Grigoriev, Mikhail N; Bolshiyanov, Dimitry Yu; Langer, Moritz; Lange, Stephan; Bornemann, Niko; Morgenstern, Anne; Schreiber, Peter; Wille, Christian; Chadburn, Sarah; Gouttevin, Isabelle; Burke, Eleanor J; Kutzbach, Lars (2019): A 16-year record (2002–2017) of permafrost, active-layer, and meteorological conditions at the Samoylov Island Arctic permafrost research site, Lena River delta, northern Siberia: an opportunity to validate remote-sensing data and land surface, snow, and permafrost models. Earth System Science Data, 11(1), 261-299, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-261-2019

Bolin Centre For Climate Research (2018): Archived data from Northern Circumpolar Soil Carbon Database. Stockholm University, https://doi.org/10.5879/ECDS/00000001

Fuchs, Matthias; Grosse, Guido; Jones, Benjamin M; Strauss, Jens; Baughman, Carson A; Walker, Donald A (2018): Sedimentary and geochemical characteristics of two small permafrost-dominated Arctic river deltas in northern Alaska. arktos - The Journal of Arctic Geosciences, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s41063-018-0056-9

Fuchs, Matthias; Grosse, Guido; Strauss, Jens; Günther, Frank; Grigoriev, Mikhail N; Maximov, Georgy M; Hugelius, Gustaf (2018): Carbon and nitrogen pools in thermokarst-affected permafrost landscapes in Arctic Siberia. Biogeosciences, 15(3), 953-971, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-953-2018

Herbst, Tanja; Fuchs, Matthias; Liebner, Susanne; Treat, Claire C (2024): Carbon Stocks and Potential Greenhouse Gas Production of Permafrost‐Affected Active Floodplains in the Lena River Delta. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 129(1), e2023JG007590, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JG007590

Hugelius, G; Tarnocai, C; Broll, G; Canadell, Josep G; Kuhry, P; Swanson, D K (2013): The Northern Circumpolar Soil Carbon Database: spatially distributed datasets of soil coverage and soil carbon storage in the northern permafrost regions. Earth System Science Data, 5(1), 3-13, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-5-3-2013

Hugelius, Gustaf; Strauss, Jens; Zubrzycki, Sebastian; Harden, J W; Schuur, E A G; Ping, Chien-Lu; Schirrmeister, Lutz; Grosse, Guido; Michaelson, G J; Koven, Charles D; O'Donnell, J A; Elberling, Bo; Mishra, U; Camill, P; Yu, Zicheng; Palmtag, Juri; Kuhry, P (2014): Estimated stocks of circumpolar permafrost carbon with quantified uncertainty ranges and identified data gaps. Biogeosciences, 11(23), 6573-6593, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-6573-2014

Kutzbach, Lars; Wagner, Dirk; Pfeiffer, Eva-Maria (2004): Effect of microrelief and vegetation on methane emission from wet polygonal tundra, Lena Delta, Northern Siberia. Biogeochemistry, 69(3), 341-362, https://doi.org/10.1023/B:BIOG.0000031053.81520.db

Michaelson, Gary J; Ping, Chien-Lu; Clark, Mark (2013): Soil Pedon Carbon and Nitrogen Data for Alaska: An Analysis and Update. Open Journal of Soil Science, 03(02), 132-142, https://doi.org/10.4236/ojss.2013.32015

Palmtag, Juri; Cable, Stefanie; Christiansen, Hanne Hvidtfeldt; Hugelius, Gustaf; Kuhry, Peter (2018): Landform partitioning and estimates of deep storage of soil organic matter in Zackenberg, Greenland. The Cryosphere, 12(5), 1735-1744, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-1735-2018

Palmtag, Juri; Obu, Jaroslav; Kuhry, Peter; Siewert, Matthias Benjamin; Weiss, Niels; Hugelius, Gustaf (2022): Detailed pedon data on soil carbon and nitrogen for the northern permafrost region. Bolin Centre Database, https://doi.org/10.17043/PALMTAG-2022-PEDON-1

Ping, Chien-Lu; Michaelson, G J; Guo, Laodong; Jorgenson, M Torre; Kanevskiy, Mikhail Z; Shur, Yuri; Dou, Fugen; Liang, Jingjing (2011): Soil carbon and material fluxes across the eroding Alaska Beaufort Sea coastline. Journal of Geophysical Research, 116(G2), G02004, https://doi.org/10.1029/2010JG001588

Rivkina, Elizaveta; Shcherbakova, Viktoria; Laurinavichius, Kestas; Petrovskaya, Lada; Krivushin, Kirill; Kraev, Gleb; Pecheritsina, Svetlana; Gilichinsky, David A (2007): Biogeochemistry of methane and methanogenic archaea in permafrost. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 61(1), 1-15, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6941.2007.00315.x

Schwamborn, Georg; Rachold, Volker; Grigoriev, Mikhail N (2002): Late Quaternary Sedimentation History of the Lena Delta. Quaternary International, 89(1), 119-134, https://doi.org/10.1016/S1040-6182(01)00084-2

Siewert, Matthias Benjamin; Hugelius, Gustaf; Heim, Birgit; Faucherre, Samuel (2016): Landscape controls and vertical variability of soil organic carbon storage in permafrost-affected soils of the Lena River Delta. CATENA, 147, 725-741, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2016.07.048

Tarnocai, C; Canadell, J G; Schuur, E A G; Kuhry, P; Mazhitova, G; Zimov, S (2009): Soil organic carbon pools in the northern circumpolar permafrost region. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 23(2), 2008GB003327, https://doi.org/10.1029/2008GB003327

Zubrzycki, Sebastian; Kutzbach, Lars; Grosse, Guido; Desyatkin, Alexey; Pfeiffer, Eva-Maria (2013): Organic carbon and total nitrogen stocks in soils of the Lena River Delta. Biogeosciences, 10(6), 3507-3524, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-3507-2013

References:

Pekel, Jean-Francois; Cottam, Andrew; Gorelick, Noel; Belward, Alan S (2016): High-resolution mapping of global surface water and its long-term changes. Nature, 540(7633), 418-422, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature20584

Project(s):

Carbon in Permafrost / Kohlenstoff im Permafrost (KoPF)

Changing Arctic Carbon cycle in the cOastal Ocean Near-shore (CACOON)

NUNATARYUK, Permafrost thaw and the changing Arctic coast, science for socioeconomic adaptation (NUNATARYUK)

Permafrost Research (AWI_Perma)

Permafrost Research (Periglacial Dynamics) @ AWI (AWI_PerDyn)

Polygons in tundra wetlands: state and dynamics under climate variability in Polar Regions (POLYGON)

Rapid Permafrost Thaw in a Warming Arctic and Impacts on the Soil Organic Carbon Pool (PETA-CARB)

Funding:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn (DFG), grant/award no. 164232461 : Polygons in tundra wetlands: state and dynamics under climate variability in Polar Regions

Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), grant/award no. 03F0764B : Verbundprojekt: WTZ Russland - KoPf; Kohlenstoffumsatz und Treibhausgasfreisetzung aus tauendem Permafrost Nordostsibiriens unter sich ändernden Umwelt- und Klimabedingungen

Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), grant/award no. 03F0806A : WTZ Großbritannien: CACOON - Veränderung des arktischen Kohlenstoffkreislaufs im küstennahen Ozean

Horizon 2020 (H2020), grant/award no. 773421 : NUNATARYUK, Permafrost thaw and the changing Arctic coast, science for socioeconomic adaptation

National Science Foundation (NSF), grant/award no. 1927553 : Collaborative Research: AccelNet: Permafrost Coastal Systems Network (PerCS-Net) -- A Circumpolar Alliance for Arctic Coastal Community Information Exchange

Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), grant/award no. NE/R012806/1: Changing Arctic Carbon cycle in the cOastal Ocean Near-shore

Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), grant/award no. 338335 : Rapid Permafrost Thaw in a Warming Arctic and Impacts on the Soil Organic Carbon Pool

Coverage:

Median Latitude: 70.954888 * Median Longitude: -178.787773 * South-bound Latitude: 66.559000 * West-bound Longitude: 125.880556 * North-bound Latitude: 74.474263 * East-bound Longitude: -20.547366

Date/Time Start: 1998-08-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2018-08-20T00:00:00

Minimum DEPTH, soil: 0.000 m * Maximum DEPTH, soil: 21.900 m

Event(s):

AWI_12P-1607-1 (POK1_W) * Latitude: 69.095150 * Longitude: 160.938733 * Date/Time Start: 2012-06-30T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2012-09-05T00:00:00 * Location: Siberia, Russia * Campaign: (Kytalyk-Pokhodsk_2012, Kolyma2012) * Basis: AWI Arctic Land Expedition * Method/Device: Sampling/measurement on land (LAND)

AWI_12P-1707-1 (POK1_C) * Latitude: 69.095033 * Longitude: 160.938900 * Date/Time Start: 2012-06-30T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2012-09-05T00:00:00 * Location: Siberia, Russia * Campaign: (Kytalyk-Pokhodsk_2012, Kolyma2012) * Basis: AWI Arctic Land Expedition * Method/Device: Sampling/measurement on land (LAND) * Comment: Pond in a low-centered polygon

AWI_12P-1907-1 (POK3_W) * Latitude: 69.094783 * Longitude: 160.940700 * Date/Time Start: 2012-06-30T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2012-09-05T00:00:00 * Location: Siberia, Russia * Campaign: (Kytalyk-Pokhodsk_2012, Kolyma2012) * Basis: AWI Arctic Land Expedition * Method/Device: Sampling/measurement on land (LAND) * Comment: near the monitoring site

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Comment
1	Event label	Event		Fuchs, Matthias
2	Core	Core		Fuchs, Matthias	Original core ID
3	Sample ID	Sample ID		Fuchs, Matthias
4	Depth, soil, minimum	Depth soil min	m	Fuchs, Matthias
5	Depth, soil, maximum	Depth soil max	m	Fuchs, Matthias
6	DEPTH, soil	Depth soil	m	Fuchs, Matthias	Geocode
7	Sample thickness	Samp thick	cm	Fuchs, Matthias	Length of sample
8	Density, dry bulk	DBD	g/cm³	Fuchs, Matthias
9	Carbon, organic, total	TOC	%	Fuchs, Matthias	wt %
10	Carbon, total	TC	%	Fuchs, Matthias	wt %
11	Nitrogen, total	TN	%	Fuchs, Matthias	wt %
12	Water content, wet mass	Water wm	%	Fuchs, Matthias	absolute water / ice content
13	Carbon/Nitrogen ratio	C/N		Fuchs, Matthias
14	Soil organic carbon density	SOC dens	kg/m³	Fuchs, Matthias
15	Soil nitrogen density	SN dens	kg/m³	Fuchs, Matthias
16	LATITUDE	Latitude		Fuchs, Matthias	Geocode
17	LONGITUDE	Longitude		Fuchs, Matthias	Geocode
18	Reference/source	Reference		Fuchs, Matthias
19	Comment	Comment		Fuchs, Matthias

License:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0) (License comes into effect after moratorium ends)

Status:

Curation Level: Basic curation (CurationLevelB)

Size:

18159 data points

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