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    • Active-Layer and Permafrost Temperatures, Sisimiut (Holsteinsborg), Greenland, Version 1

    Metadata Updated: September 19, 2025

    This data set contains active-layer and permafrost temperatures from Sisimiut, west Greenland, recorded from 18 sensors at depths of 0.25 m, 0.5 m, 0.75 m, 1 m, 1.25 m, 1.5 m, 1.75 m, 2 m, 2.5 m, 3 m, 3.5 m, 4 m, 4.5 m, 5 m, 6 m, 7 m, 8 m, and 9 m below the surface. Snow depth, snow extent, and surface air temperature were also recorded. Thermometers recorded temperatures once a day from September 1967 to August 1982; however, this data set only contains bi-weekly averages. Data are in tab-delimited ASCII text format and are available via FTP.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 19, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 19, 2025
    Publisher NSIDC
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.7265/agy6-ky59
    Data Last Modified 2025-09-10
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id fd52aa83-e509-4bc4-9317-043a15ccd2f0
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://nsidc.org/forms/GGD23_or.html?major_version=1
    Old Spatial "CARTESIAN",{"WestBoundingCoordinate":-53.64,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":66.94,"EastBoundingCoordinate":-53.64,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":66.94}
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash b4f46aab96fa9bb235c613d9af23e8c110e65ed502facf6cc7251a96fa0e64f5
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1967-09-01/1967-09-01

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