A high spatial resolution soil carbon and nitrogen dataset for the northern permafrost region based on circumpolar land cover upscaling

Palmtag, Juri; Obu, Jaroslav; Kuhry, Peter; Richter, Andreas; Siewert, Matthias B.; Weiss, Niels; Westermann, Sebastian; Hugelius, Gustaf

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4095-2022

Articles | Volume 14, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4095-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4095-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 9

Data description paper

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07 Sep 2022

Data description paper |

| 07 Sep 2022

A high spatial resolution soil carbon and nitrogen dataset for the northern permafrost region based on circumpolar land cover upscaling

Juri Palmtag, Jaroslav Obu, Peter Kuhry, Andreas Richter, Matthias B. Siewert, Niels Weiss, Sebastian Westermann, and Gustaf Hugelius

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Detailed pedon data on soil carbon and nitrogen for the northern permafrost region Juri Palmtag, Jaroslav Obu, Peter Kuhry, Matthias Siewert, Niels Weiss, and Gustaf Hugelius https://doi.org/10.17043/palmtag-2022-pedon-1

A high spatial resolution soil carbon and nitrogen dataset for the northern permafrost region Juri Palmtag, Jaroslav Obu, Peter Kuhry, Matthias Siewert, Niels Weiss, and Gustaf Hugelius https://doi.org/10.17043/palmtag-2022-spatial-1

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The northern permafrost region covers 22 % of the Northern Hemisphere and holds almost twice as much carbon as the atmosphere. This paper presents data from 651 soil pedons encompassing more than 6500 samples from 16 different study areas across the northern permafrost region. We use this dataset together with ESA's global land cover dataset to estimate soil organic carbon and total nitrogen storage up to 300 cm soil depth, with estimated values of 813 Pg for carbon and 55 Pg for nitrogen.