ARCADE: The pan-ARctic CAtchment DatabasE

DOI

Earth’s rapidly changing climate is particularly evident in the Arctic. Outside of the Arctic, the emergence of large-sample catchment databases has transformed science from an emphasis on local case-studies towards more systematic insights into drivers of watershed functioning. Here we present an integrated pan-ARctic CAtchments summary DatabasE (ARCADE) of >40,000 catchments, including small and medium-sized watersheds, draining into the Arctic Ocean. These watersheds, delineated at a high-resolution (90 m), are provided with 103 geospatial, environmental, climatic, and physiographic catchment properties. ARCADE is the first aggregated database of pan-Arctic river catchments that includes small watersheds at a high resolution. These small catchments are experiencing the greatest climatic warming while also storing large quantities of soil carbon in landscapes that are especially prone to degradation of permafrost (i.e., ice wedge polygon terrain) and associated hydrological regime shifts. The publication of this database is a necessary step toward more integrated monitoring of the pan-Arctic watershed.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.34894/U9HSPV
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-541-2023
Metadata Access https://dataverse.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.34894/U9HSPV
Provenance
Creator Speetjens, N. J., Hugelius, G., Gumbricht, T., Lantuit, H., Berghuijs, W.R., Pika, P.A., Poste, A., Vonk, J.E. ORCID logo
Publisher DataverseNL
Contributor Speetjens, Niek Jesse
Publication Year 2022
Rights CC-BY-4.0; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
OpenAccess true
Contact Speetjens, Niek Jesse (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Representation
Resource Type Geospatial dataset; Dataset
Format application/zipped-shapefile; application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
Size 129914477; 131907698; 51863; 54606
Version 5.0
Discipline Biogeochemistry; Biospheric Sciences; Earth and Environmental Science; Environmental Research; Geosciences; Natural Sciences
Spatial Coverage (180.000W, 40.000S, 180.000E, 90.000N)