Arctic Biosphere-Atmosphere Coupling at multiple Scales (ABACUS) project: Plant, Soil, Atmospheric and Aircraft Measurements and Modelling data

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Summary

ABACUS (Arctic Biosphere Atmosphere Coupling at Multiple Scales) is funded by a grant (NE/D005795/1) from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) International Polar Year (IPY) Programme. The ABACUS research project is a major, linked programme of plant and soil studies, atmospheric measurements, aircraft and satellite observations, and modelling, to improve our understanding of the response of the arctic terrestrial biosphere to climate change. The data collected includes root measurements and isotope ratios of plants, CH4 emissions of soils, measurements of Carbon and water exchanges between soils/vegetation and the atmosphere at fine scales (resolution of ~1m), and at scales of ~100m, records of snow depth, soil moisture and climate, and aircraft images of the land surface and profiles of CH4. Observations and measurements of the carbon budget and the carbon exchange between soil, plants and atmosphere in terrestrial Arctic ecosystems were collected at 4 field sites with different ecosystems near Abisko (Northern Sweden) and Petsikko/Kevo (Northern Finland) between 2007 and 2009. Plant data has so far been archived at the BADC.

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Added to data.gov.uk
2017-11-02
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Public; Licence: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
Harvest GUID
760c69e22dfd77d3d759ab53bfc33574
Extent
Latitude: 69.75° to °
Longitude: 18.8° to 27.0°
Spatial reference system
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700
Dataset reference date
2009-12-10T03:19:52 (publication)
2009-12-10T03:19:52 (creation)
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(ceda_officer, author); University of Edinburgh (author); British Atmospheric Data Centre (custodian, publisher, distributer, point_of_contact, metadata_owner, curator); Polaris House (author); University of Durham (author)
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