Annual Thaw Depths and Water Depths in Tanana Flats, Alaska

Data Contributors WALTERS, JAMES C. RACINE, CHARLES H. JORGENSON, TORRE M Parameters PERMAFROST > THAW DEPTH WATER TABLE

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Thaw depths and water depths were monitored at 1 m to 2 m intervals along a 255-m transect across an area of discontinuous and degrading permafrost on the Tanana Flats south of Fairbanks, Alaska. Measurements were taken once a year in late August from 1995 to 2002 to show effects of winter snow depths, climate warming, and vegetation and wetland creation-surface subsidence. Data are in a single tab-delimited ASCII text file, available via FTP.

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Racine, C., T. Jorgenson, and J. Walters. 2003. Annual Thaw Depths and Water Depths in Tanana Flats, Alaska. Boulder, CO: National Snow and Ice Data Center/World Data Center for Glaciology. Digital Media.

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