US-NGC: NGEE Arctic Council
Tower_team: | |
PI: | Margaret Torn mstorn@lbl.gov - Berkeley Lab |
AncContact: | Sigrid Dengel Sdengel@lbl.gov - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
Lat, Long: | 64.8618, -163.7002 |
Elevation(m): | 35 |
Network Affiliations: | AmeriFlux |
Vegetation IGBP: | GRA (Grasslands: Lands with herbaceous types of cover. Tree and shrub cover is less than 10%. Permanent wetlands lands with a permanent mixture of water and herbaceous or woody vegetation. The vegetation can be present in either salt, brackish, or fresh water.) |
Climate Koeppen: | ET (Tundra) |
Mean Annual Temp (°C): | — |
Mean Annual Precip. (mm): | — |
Flux Species Measured: | CO2, CH4, H2O |
Years Data Collected: | 2017 - Present |
Years Data Available: | AmeriFlux BASE 2017 - 2022 Data Citation AmeriFlux FLUXNET 2017 - 2019 Data Citation |
Data Use Policy: | AmeriFlux CC-BY-4.0 Policy1 |
Description: | Subarctic tussock tundra, discontinuous permafrost |
URL: | — |
Research Topics: | — |
Acknowledgment: | The Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE Arctic) project is supported by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research in the DOE Office of Science. |
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Citation: Margaret Torn, Sigrid Dengel (2022), AmeriFlux BASE US-NGC NGEE Arctic Council, Ver. 2-5, AmeriFlux AMP, (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/1634883 - AmeriFlux FLUXNET: https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/1902838
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