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Arctic; dry tundra; Eddy covariance; eddy heat flux; glacier; graminoids; ground heat flux and net radiation; harmonized data; high latitude; Land-Atmosphere; Land-cover; latent and sensible heat; latent heat flux; longwave radiation; meteorological data; observatory data; Peat bog; Radiation fluxes; Radiative energy budget; sensible heat flux; shortwave radiation; shrub tundra; surface energy balance; synthetic data; tundra vegetation; wetland
Abstract:
Despite the importance of surface energy budgets (SEBs) for land-climate interactions in the Arctic, uncertainties in their prediction persist. In situ observational data of SEB components - useful for research and model validation - are collected at relatively few sites across the terrestrial Arctic, and not all available datasets are readily interoperable. Furthermore, the terrestrial Arctic consists of a diversity of vegetation types, which are generally not well represented in land surface schemes of current Earth system models.
This dataset contains metadata information about surface energy budget components measured at 64 tundra and glacier sites >60° N across the Arctic. This information was taken from the open-access repositories FLUXNET, Ameriflux, AON, GC-Net and PROMICE. The contained datasets are associated with the publication vegetation type as an important predictor of the Arctic Summer Land Surface Energy Budget by Oehri et al. 2022, and intended to support research of surface energy budgets and their relationship with environmental conditions, in particular vegetation characteristics across the terrestrial Arctic.
