Soil Active Layer Thaw Depths in Fairbanks, Alaska, 2014-2018

Soil active layer thaw depth measurements collected along transects at three sites near Fairbanks, Alaska, USA during the late summers of 2014-2018. The dataset includes vegetation ecotype information and is associated with the NASA ABoVE campaign. The US Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) owns and operates facilities at two of the sites.

Use Cases

• Modeling permafrost thaw dynamics based on multi-year thaw depth measurements
• Analyzing the relationship between vegetation ecotypes and soil thaw depth
• Establishing baseline data for long-term monitoring or manipulation experiments at the described sites
• Validating remote sensing products for Arctic soil conditions

Strengths

• Multi-year temporal coverage from 2014 to 2018
• Measurements from three distinct sites near Fairbanks, Alaska
• Includes associated vegetation ecotype data along transects

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Field measurements collected along transects

Time Range

2014-2018

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-12 19:46:58.952668; freshness should be verified

Geography

Three sites near Fairbanks, Alaska, USA