An Arctic watershed observatory at Lake Peters, Alaska: weather–glacier–river–lake system data for 2015–2018
<p>Datasets from a 4-year monitoring effort at Lake Peters, a glacier-fed lake in Arctic Alaska, are described and presented with accompanying methods, biases, and corrections. Three meteorological stations documented air temperature, relative humidity, and rainfall at different elevations in...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Earth System Science Data |
| Online Access: | https://www.earth-syst-sci-data.net/11/1957/2019/essd-11-1957-2019.pdf |
| Summary: | <p>Datasets from a 4-year monitoring effort at Lake
Peters, a glacier-fed lake in Arctic Alaska, are described and presented
with accompanying methods, biases, and corrections. Three meteorological
stations documented air temperature, relative humidity, and rainfall at
different elevations in the Lake Peters watershed. Data from ablation stake
stations on Chamberlin Glacier were used to quantify glacial melt, and
measurements from two hydrological stations were used to reconstruct
continuous discharge for the primary inflows to Lake Peters, Carnivore and
Chamberlin creeks. The lake's thermal structure was monitored using a
network of temperature sensors on moorings, the lake's water level was
recorded using pressure sensors, and sedimentary inputs to the lake were
documented by sediment traps. We demonstrate the utility of these datasets
by examining a flood event in July 2015, though other uses include studying
intra- and inter-annual trends in this weather–glacier–river–lake system,
contextualizing interpretations of lake sediment cores, and providing
background for modeling studies. All DOI-referenced datasets described in
this paper are archived at the National Science Foundation Arctic Data
Center at the following overview web page for the project: <span class="uri">https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/urn:uuid:df1eace5-4dd7-4517-a985-e4113c631044</span> (last access: 13 October 2019; Kaufman et al., 2019f).</p> |
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| ISSN: | 1866-3508 1866-3516 |