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Arctic Vegetation Plots ATLAS Project North Slope and Seward Peninsula, AK, 1998-2000

Creator: ORNL_CLOUD
Keywords: Shrubland/Scrub,Soil Classification,Soil Chemistry,Soil Moisture/Water Content,Community Structure,Vegetation Species,Vegetation Cover,Soil Horizons/Profile,Terrain Elevation,Alpine/Tundra

ATLAS_Veg_Plots_1541

Version

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1541

Citation

Center/Project

Oak Ridge National Laboratory DAAC (ORNL DAAC)

Data at a Glance

Data Format

CSV

Dataset Size

948.604 KB

Spatial Extent

N: 71.3219 S: 64.7265 E: -153.74 W: -165.069

Temporal Extent

1998-07-01 to 2000-07-29

Coordinate System

CARTESIAN

Granule Spatial Representation

CARTESIAN

Description

This data set provides environmental, soil, and vegetation data collected from study sites on the North Slope and Seward Peninsula of Alaska during the Arctic Transition in Land-Atmosphere System (ATLAS) project. ATLAS-1 sites on the North Slope, located in Barrow, Atqasuk, Oumalik, and Ivotuk, were sampled in 1998-1999. ATLAS-2 sites located at Council and Quartz Creek on the Seward Peninsula were sampled in 2000. Specific attributes include dominant vegetation species and cover, biomass, soil chemistry and moisture, leaf area index (LAI), normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), topography and elevation, and plant cover abundance.

Product Summary

Platforms

FIELD SURVEYS ,

FIELD INVESTIGATION

Instruments

LICOR PLANT CANOPY ANALYZER ,

STEEL MEASURING TAPE ,

VISUAL OBSERVATIONS

Spatial Extent

N: 71.3219 S: 64.7265 E: -153.74 W: -165.069

Coordinate System

CARTESIAN

Granule Spatial Representation

CARTESIAN

Temporal Extent

1998-07-01 to 2000-07-29

Data Partner

THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC) (ORNL_DAAC)

Concept ID

C2162120307-ORNL_CLOUD

Data State

COMPLETE

Number of Files/Granules

Processing Level

Published

2018-01-30

Updated

2018-12-31

Science Keywords

Shrubland/Scrub ,

Soil Classification ,

Soil Chemistry ,

Soil Moisture/Water Content ,

Community Structure ,

Vegetation Species ,

Vegetation Cover ,

Soil Horizons/Profile ,

Terrain Elevation ,

Alpine/Tundra

Citation

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Raynolds, M. K., Walker, D. A., Breen, A. L., & Edwards, E. J. (2018). Arctic Vegetation Plots ATLAS Project North Slope and Seward Peninsula, AK, 1998-2000 (Version 1). ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1541 Date Accessed: 2026-05-01

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USER'S GUIDE

ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION

Publications Citing This Dataset

Title	Year Sort ascending	Author	Topic
A synthesized field survey database of vegetation and active-layer properties for the Alaskan tundra (19722020)	2024	Zhu, Xiaoran, Chen, Dong, Kogure, Maruko, Hoy, Elizabeth, Berner, Logan T., Breen, Amy L., Chatterjee, Abhishek, Davidson, Scott J., Frost, Gerald V., Hollingsworth, Teresa N., Iwahana, Go, Jandt, Randi R., Kade, Anja N., Loboda, Tatiana V., Macander, Matt J., Mack, Michelle, Miller, Charles E., Miller, Eric A., Natali, Susan M., Raynolds, Martha K., Rocha, Adrian V., Tsuyuzaki, Shiro, Tweedie, Craig E., Walker, Donald A., Williams, Mathew, Xu, Xin, Zhang, Yingtong, French, Nancy, Goetz, Scott	Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Chemistry, Soil Ph, Soil Depth, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Vegetation Index, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Species, Soil Horizons/Profile, Biomass, Vegetation Index, Organic Matter, Soil Texture, Topographic Effects, Canopy Characteristics, Forest Composition/Vegetation Structure, Reflectance, Air Temperature, Terrain Elevation, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Active Layer, Periglacial Processes, Pingo, Dew Point Temperature, Alpine/Tundra, Humidity, Fire Occurrence, Wind Speed, Wildfires, Soil Temperature, Wind Direction, Shrubland/Scrub, Soil Classification, Community Structure, Active Layer, Soil Temperature, Fire Ecology, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Soil Bulk Density, Forest Fire Science, Burned Area, LICHENS, Plant Succession, PLANTS, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Soil Color, Freeze/Thaw, Freeze/Thaw, Permafrost, Soil Water Holding Capacity, Cation Exchange Capacity, Electrical Conductivity, Snow Cover, Snow Cover, Anthropogenic/Human Influenced Ecosystems, Land Use/Land Cover, Fire Disturbance
The Arctic plant aboveground biomass synthesis dataset	2024	Berner, Logan T., Orndahl, Kathleen M., Rose, Melissa, Tamstorf, Mikkel, Arndal, Marie F., Alexander, Heather D., Humphreys, Elyn R., Loranty, Michael M., Ludwig, Sarah M., Nyman, Johanna, Juutinen, Sari, Aurela, Mika, Happonen, Konsta, Mikola, Juha, Mack, Michelle C., Vankoughnett, Mathew R., Iversen, Colleen M., Salmon, Verity G., Yang, Dedi, Kumar, Jitendra, Grogan, Paul, Danby, Ryan K., Scott, Neal A., Olofsson, Johan, Siewert, Matthias B., Deschamps, Lucas, Levesque, Esther, Maire, Vincent, Morneault, Amelie, Gauthier, Gilles, Gignac, Charles, Boudreau, Stephane, Gaspard, Anna, Kholodov, Alexander, Bret-Harte, M. Syndonia, Greaves, Heather E., Walker, Donald, Gregory, Fiona M., Michelsen, Anders, Kumpula, Timo, Villoslada, Miguel, Ylanne, Henni, Luoto, Miska, Virtanen, Tarmo, Forbes, Bruce C., Holzel, Norbert, Epstein, Howard, Heim, Ramona J., Bunn, Andrew, Holmes, Robert M., Hung, Jacqueline K. Y., Natali, Susan M., Virkkala, Anna-Maria, Goetz, Scott J.	Biomass, Shrubland/Scrub, Soil Classification, Soil Chemistry, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Community Structure, Vegetation Species, Vegetation Cover, Soil Horizons/Profile, Terrain Elevation, Alpine/Tundra