Abstract

Few hydrological studies have been conducted in Greenland, other than on glacial hydrology associated with the ice sheet. Understanding permafrost hydrology and hydroclimatic change and variability, however, provides key information for understanding climate change effects and feedbacks in the Arctic landscape. This paper presents a new, extensive, and detailed hydrological and meteorological open access data set, with high temporal resolution from a 1.56 km(2) permafrost catchment, with a lake underlain by a through-talik close to the ice sheet in the Kangerlussuaq region, western Greenland. The paper describes the hydrological site investigations and utilized equipment, as well as the data collection and processing. The investigations were performed between 2010 and 2013. The high spatial resolution, within the investigated area, of the data set makes it highly suitable for various detailed hydrological and ecological studies on catchment scale. The data set is available for all users via the PANGAEA database, http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.836178.

Published in

Earth System Science Data
2015, Volume: 7, number: 1, pages: 93-108
Publisher: COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH

SLU Authors

• Lindborg, Tobias

  • Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    
  • Stockholm University

• Laudon, Hjalmar

  • Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG13 Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts


UKÄ Subject classification

Oceanography, Hydrology, Water Resources
Forest Science
Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-7-93-2015

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/68725