Ground temperature, thaw depth and snow depth in a permafrost peatland in Tavvavuoma, northern Sweden

Britta Sannel

This dataset contains information on ground temperature, late season thaw depth and snow depth variability within a permafrost peatland in northern Sweden. The ground temperature data is from 2007 or 2008, the thaw depth data is from 2010⁠ – ⁠2012 and the snow depth data is from 2010⁠ – ⁠2013.

The aims of the study behind this dataset were to increase our knowledge of small-scale spatial ground thermal variability within subarctic peat plateau landscapes, and to discuss drivers of ground thermal regimes in different landscape units.

Citation

Britta Sannel (2020) Ground temperature, thaw depth and snow depth in a permafrost peatland in Tavvavuoma, northern Sweden. Dataset version 1. Bolin Centre Database. https://doi.org/10.17043/sannel-2020-temperature-1

References

Sannel ABK (2020) Ground temperature and snow depth variability within a subarctic peat plateau landscape. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 31:255⁠ – ⁠263. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.2045

Data description

The dataset contains two xlsx spreadsheet files; one file with ground temperatures recorded every 3 hours down to 1⁠ – ⁠2 m depth in six different landscape units (nine sites in total), and one file with snow depth and late season thaw depth in the six landscape units (nine sites in total).

Comments

The six different landscape units in this dataset are:

• peat plateau
• depression within a peat plateau
• peat plateau edge (close to a thermokarst lake)
• thermokarst lake shoreline
• lake
• fen

Thanks are expressed to Peter Jansson and Peter Kuhry for valuable help with preparations and installations in the field, to Lars Labba from Lainiovuoma Sami village for long-standing logistic field support and to Gustaf Hugelius and Jesper Sannel for field assistance. Monitoring equipment was constructed with support from Anders Sundgren, Bengt Brotén and Rickard Pettersson.

Please, cite the article by Sannel (2020) when using this dataset.