Deadhorse

Description

This site is located on the outer Arctic Coastal Plain with drained lake basins nearby the Prudhoe Bay oil field. Landcover units include Graminoid-moss tundra and graminoid, prostrate-dwarf-shrub, moss tundra (wet and moist nonacidic).

Measurements

intermediate borehole (61.0m), ID US23

air temperature
surface temperature
soil temperature profile to 1m
soil moisture at 3 depths
snow depth

Site Location Map

lat: 70.161283° | long: -148.465300° | elev: 17 m

Data

Surface Datasets (Original Instrumentation)

2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

Surface Datasets

Original Instrumentation

2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

New Instrumentation

2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

Borehole data

2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

Other Resources

Alaska Geobotany Center: Biocomplexity of Frost Boil Ecosystems

Images

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