Home > Active Layer > Kougarok

Kougarok

Back
General Information

Created: 2013-11-22 08:28:30
Modified: 2014-02-16 21:24:50

Active: Yes
Country:United States
Site:Kougarok
Site Description:Active Layer Measurements
CALM-Code:U28
Responsible Countries: United States,
Timezone:UTC/GMT -09:00 hours
Vegetation Type:Shrub Tundra
Responsible Person:Nikolay Shiklomanov
Type:Grid
Nodes:121
Rows:11
Columns:11
Offset:100 m

1-sq km grid consists of a square array of surveyed permanent stakes separated by 100 m, yielding an 11 × 11 array of sampling nodes on each grid. Thaw depth and snow sampling was conducted twice by manual probing at each stake. The two values for each sampling point are averaged, yielding a maximum of 121 data points per grid per probing date. The active layer was not measured at locations where grid points intersect rocks or deep water.

Kougarok 3m Grid met tower (65o27,500' N, 164o 38,279 W), about 100 m west of the west site of the grid on the south facing slope.Climate station has 12 thermistors in the ground ranging from 0-125 cm. Station has 6 soil moisture probes ranging from 5-35 cm depth.

Slope:8 °
Aspect:44.2
Permafrost Zone:Discontinuous
Vegetation:About 70% tussock tundra w/moss, about 20% shrubs, mostly on south facing slope and creek bottom, usually low and fairly sparse except creek bottom
Landform:Glaciated foothills
Lithology:Peat, clay, some areas of gravel
Description:About 70% tussock tundra w/moss, about 20 % shrubs, mostly on south facing slope and creek bottom, usually low and fairly sparse except creek bottom General description of soil moisture: Dry to moist
Access Timeseries
Bibliographic References

Do we have wrong or old data? Let us know via Email

Gallery
U28 KougarokU28 Kougarok 2
Map

Longitude:-164.627033 °
Latitude:65.455633 °
Elevation:257.149353 m
EPSG:4326
Meta Data Completeness
Percentage of information fields provided for this monitoring site!
Download