Chandalar Shelf

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Created: 2013-12-30 10:50:20
Modified: 2014-02-03 12:39:00

Active: Yes
Country:United States
Site:Chandalar Shelf
CALM-Code:U15
Responsible Countries: United States,
Timezone:UTC/GMT -09:00 hours
Vegetation Type:Shrub Tundra
Responsible Person:Vladimir E. Romanovsky
Type:Grid
Nodes:35
Rows:5
Columns:7
Offset:5 m

 

DESCRIPTION OF AREA CONTAINING SITE:

Broad glaciated mountain valley.  Landcover units include Graminoid-moss tundra and graminoid,  prostrate-dwarf-shrub, moss tundra (wet and moist nonacidic). The site is located at the southern slope of Brooks Range

 

SAMPLING DESIGN AND METHOD:

100-m grid consists of a square array of surveyed permanent stakes separated by 10 m. Sampling was conducted by manual probing at each stake. The active layer was not measured at locations where grid points intersect rocks or large water ponds.

 

DATA

Only thaw depth data determined by mechanical probing is reported on CALM website. For additional data refer to http://www.gi.alaska.edu/snowice/Permafrost-lab/index.html or contact site investigators directly

Slope:1 °
Aspect:38.1
Permafrost Zone:Continuous
Vegetation:Alpine meadow with low shrubs
Landform:Glaciated mountain terrace
Lithology:Ruptic-Histic Aquiturbel. Organic layer thickness is 27 cm
Description:Broad glaciated mountain valley. Landcover units include Graminoid-moss tundra and graminoid, prostrate-dwarf-shrub, moss tundra (wet and moist nonacidic). The site is located at the southern slope of Brooks Range
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Bibliographic References
Sturm, M., Schimel, J., Michelson, G., Welker, J., Oberbauer, S. F., Liston, G. E., Fahnestock, J., and V. E. Romanovsky, Are winter biological processes important in converting arctic tundra to shrubland?, BioScience, Vol. 55, No. 1: 17 26, 2005.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2005)055[0017:wbpchc]2.0.co;2
Shimel, J. P., Fahnstock, J., Michaelson, G. J., Mican, C., Ping, C., Romanovsky, V. E. and J. Welker, A microbial activity based model of winter CO2 fluxes in Arctic tundra communities, Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research,Vol. 38, No. 2, 249-256, 2006.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1657/1523-0430(2006)38[249:cpocia]2.0.co;2
Nicolsky, D. J., Romanovsky, V. E., Alexeev, V. A. and D. M. Lawrence, Improved modeling of permafrost dynamics in Alaska with CLM3, Geophysical Research Letters, VOL. 34, L08501, doi:10.1029/2007GL029525, 2007.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2007gl029525
Nicolsky, D. J., Romanovsky, V.E., and G. S.Tipenko, Using in-situ temperature measurements to estimate saturated soil thermal properties by solving a sequence of optimization problems, The Cryosphere, 1, 41 58, 2007.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/tc-1-41-2007
Brown, J. and V. E. Romanovsky, Report from the International Permafrost Association: State of Permafrost in the First Decade of the 21st Century, Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 19: 255 260, 2008.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ppp.618
Nicolsky, D. J., Romanovsky, V.E., Tipenko, G. S., and D. A. Walker, Modeling biogeophysical interactions in non-sorted circles in the Low Arctic, Journal of Geophysical Research, in press
http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2007jg000565
Walker, D.A., H.E. Epstein, V.E. Romanovsky, C.L. Ping, G.J. Michaelson, R.P. Daanen, Y. Shur, R.A. Peterson, W.B. Krantz, M.K. Raynolds, W.A. Gould,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ppp.487
G. Gonzalez, D.J. Nicolsky, C.M. Vonlanthen, A.N. Kade, P. Kuss, A.M. Kelley, C.A. Munger, C.T. Tarnocai, N.V. Matveyeva, and F.J.A. DaniĐšls, Arctic patterned-ground ecosystems: a synthesis of studies along a north American arctic transect, Journal of Geophysical Research, in press
http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2007jg000504
Nicolsky, D. J., Tipenko, G. S., Romanovsky, V. E. and D. A. Walker, Modeling Observed Differential Frost Heave within Non-Sorted Circles in Alaska, In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Permafrost, June 29-July 3, Fairbanks, Alaska, 2008, in press
http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2007jg000565
Romanovsky, V. E., Marchenko, S. S., Daanen, R., Nicolsky, D. J., Sergeev, D. O., and D. A. Walker, Soil climate and frost heave along the Permafrost/Ecological North American Arctic Transect, In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Permafrost, June 29-July 3, Fairbanks, Alaska, 2008, in press
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ppp.563
Kade, A., Romanovsky, V. E. and D. A. Walker, The N-factor of nonsorted circles along a climate gradient in Arctic Alaska, Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 17: 279-289, 2006.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ppp.563
Walker, D. A., H. E. Epstein, W. A. Gould, A. Kade, A.M. Kelley, J. A. Knudson, W. B. Krantz, R. A. Peterson, G. Michaelson, R.A. Peterson, C. L. Ping, M. A. Raynolds, V. E. Romanovsky, Y. Shur, and M.D. Walker, Frost-boil ecosystems: complex interactions between landforms, soils, vegetation, and climate, Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 15: 171-188, 2004.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ppp.487

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Longitude:-149.583333 °
Latitude:68.066667 °
Elevation:962.612 m
EPSG:4326
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