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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 describes the data generated in a literature synthesis, covering 358 study sites on vegetation or glacier (>=60°N latitude), which contained surface energy budget observations. The literature synthesis comprised 148 publications searched on the ISI Web of Science Core Collection.
