Journal
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA
Volume 14, Issue 1, Pages 95-116Publisher
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/essd-14-95-2022
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- National Science Foundation [1906381, 1637459, 1916567, 1916576, 1916565, 1846855]
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Division Of Earth Sciences [1846855] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1637459] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Of Biological Infrastructure
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1906381] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Repeated sampling of river chemistry in permafrost-affected Arctic watersheds provides comprehensive data and ecohydrological metrics to assess the location, scale, and persistence of carbon and nutrient contributions to watershed exports. The data allow estimation of novel ecohydrological metrics that describe the dominant location, scale, and overall persistence of ecosystem processes in continuous permafrost.
Repeated sampling of spatially distributed river chemistry can be used to assess the location, scale, and persistence of carbon and nutrient contributions to watershed exports. Here, we provide a comprehensive set of water chemistry measurements and ecohydrological metrics describing the biogeochemical conditions of permafrost-affected Arctic watersheds. These data were collected in watershed-wide synoptic campaigns in six stream networks across northern Alaska. Three watersheds are associated with the Arctic Long-Term Ecological Research site at Toolik Field Station (TFS), which were sampled seasonally each June and August from 2016 to 2018. Three watersheds were associated with the National Park Service (NPS) of Alaska and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and were sampled annually from 2015 to 2019. Extensive water chemistry characterization included carbon species, dissolved nutrients, and major ions. The objective of the sampling designs and data acquisition was to characterize terrestrial-aquatic linkages and processing of material in stream networks. The data allow estimation of novel ecohydrological metrics that describe the dominant location, scale, and overall persistence of ecosystem processes in continuous permafrost. These metrics are (1) subcatchment leverage, (2) variance collapse, and (3) spatial persistence. Raw data are available at the National Park Service Integrated Resource Management Applications portal (O'Donnell et al., 2021, (h)ttps://doi.org/10.5066/P9SBK2DZ) and within the Environmental Data Initiative (Abbott, 2021, https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/258a44fb9055163dd4dd4371b9dce945).
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