Daily soil temperature and moisture data collected from burned and unburned plots near Kougarok, Alaska. The data was recovered in September 2021 by Dr. Yongwon Kim of UAF and covers a period from September 23, 2019 to September 7, 2021. Monitoring aims to understand factors regulating soil CO2 efflux in Alaskan terrestrial ecosystems.
Use Cases
- Analyze soil temperature trends across four depths (5, 10, 20, 50cm) mentioned in the description
- Compare soil moisture levels between burned and unburned plots mentioned in the description
- Model soil CO2 efflux based on temperature and moisture data mentioned in the description
- Study the impact of fire disturbance on soil microclimate mentioned in the description
Strengths
- Data covers a two-year period from 2019/09/23 to 2021/09/07
- Soil temperature measurements are provided for four distinct depths
- Includes a comparison between burned and unburned plots
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to nasa_earthdata
Provenance
- Source
- AMD_KOPRI
- Collection Method
- Data was recovered in September 2021 by Dr. Yongwon Kim of UAF.
- Time Range
- 2019/09/23 to 2021/09/07
- Freshness
- Last updated 2021-09-07 23:59:59.999000; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Kougarok site, Alaska