PeRL: A circum-Arctic Permafrost Region Pond and Lake database

Sina Muster; Kurt Roth; Moritz Langer; Stephan Lange; Fabio Cresto Aleina; Annett Bartsch; Anne Morgenstern; Guido Grosse; Benjamin Jones; A. Britta K. Sannel; Ylva Sjöberg; Frank Günther; Christian Andresen; Alexandra Veremeeva; R. Prajna Lindgren; Frédéric Bouchard; J. Mark Lara; Daniel Fortier; Simon Charbonneau; A. Tarmo Virtanen; Gustaf Hugelius; Juri Palmtag; B. Matthias Siewert; J. William Riley; D. Charles Koven; Julia Boike

doi:10.5194/essd-9-317-2017

PeRL: A circum-Arctic Permafrost Region Pond and Lake database

Sina Muster^*, Kurt Roth, Moritz Langer, Stephan Lange, Fabio Cresto Aleina, Annett Bartsch, Anne Morgenstern, Guido Grosse, Benjamin Jones, A. Britta K. Sannel, Ylva Sjöberg, Frank Günther, Christian Andresen, Alexandra Veremeeva, R. Prajna Lindgren, Frédéric Bouchard, J. Mark Lara, Daniel Fortier, Simon Charbonneau, A. Tarmo VirtanenGustaf Hugelius, Juri Palmtag, B. Matthias Siewert, J. William Riley, D. Charles Koven, Julia Boike

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Ponds and lakes are abundant in Arctic permafrost lowlands. They play an important role in Arctic wetland ecosystems by regulating carbon, water, and energy fluxes and providing freshwater habitats. However, ponds, i.e., waterbodies with surface areas smaller than 1. 0 × 104ĝ€m2, have not been inventoried on global and regional scales. The Permafrost Region Pond and Lake (PeRL) database presents the results of a circum-Arctic effort to map ponds and lakes from modern (2002-2013) high-resolution aerial and satellite imagery with a resolution of 5ĝ€m or better. The database also includes historical imagery from 1948 to 1965 with a resolution of 6ĝ€m or better. PeRL includes 69 maps covering a wide range of environmental conditions from tundra to boreal regions and from continuous to discontinuous permafrost zones. Waterbody maps are linked to regional permafrost landscape maps which provide information on permafrost extent, ground ice volume, geology, and lithology. This paper describes waterbody classification and accuracy, and presents statistics of waterbody distribution for each site. Maps of permafrost landscapes in Alaska, Canada, and Russia are used to extrapolate waterbody statistics from the site level to regional landscape units. PeRL presents pond and lake estimates for a total area of 1. 4 × 106ĝ€km2 across the Arctic, about 17ĝ€% of the Arctic lowland ( < ĝ€300ĝ€mĝ€a.s.l.) land surface area. PeRL waterbodies with sizes of 1. 0 × 106ĝ€m2 down to 1. 0 × 102ĝ€m2 contributed up to 21ĝ€% to the total water fraction. Waterbody density ranged from 1. 0 × 10 to 9. 4 × 101ĝ€kmĝ'2. Ponds are the dominant waterbody type by number in all landscapes representing 45-99ĝ€% of the total waterbody number. The implementation of PeRL size distributions in land surface models will greatly improve the investigation and projection of surface inundation and carbon fluxes in permafrost lowlands. Waterbody maps, study area boundaries, and maps of regional permafrost landscapes including detailed metadata are available at <a hrefCombining double low line"https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.868349" targetCombining double low line"-blank">https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.868349</a>.

Original language	English
Journal	Earth System Science Data
Volume	9
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	317-348
Number of pages	32
ISSN	1866-3508
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-317-2017
Publication status	Published - 2017

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Muster, S., Roth, K., Langer, M., Lange, S., Cresto Aleina, F., Bartsch, A., Morgenstern, A., Grosse, G., Jones, B., Sannel, A. B. K., Sjöberg, Y., Günther, F., Andresen, C., Veremeeva, A., Lindgren, R. P., Bouchard, F., Lara, J. M., Fortier, D., Charbonneau, S., ... Boike, J. (2017). PeRL: A circum-Arctic Permafrost Region Pond and Lake database. Earth System Science Data, 9(1), 317-348. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-317-2017

Muster, S, Roth, K, Langer, M, Lange, S, Cresto Aleina, F, Bartsch, A, Morgenstern, A, Grosse, G, Jones, B, Sannel, ABK, Sjöberg, Y, Günther, F, Andresen, C, Veremeeva, A, Lindgren, RP, Bouchard, F, Lara, JM, Fortier, D, Charbonneau, S, Virtanen, AT, Hugelius, G, Palmtag, J, Siewert, BM, Riley, JW, Koven, DC & Boike, J 2017, 'PeRL: A circum-Arctic Permafrost Region Pond and Lake database', Earth System Science Data, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 317-348. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-317-2017

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