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Maps of northern peatland extent, depth, carbon storage and nitrogen storage

Hugelius, Gustaf, Stockholm University, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8096-1594
Loisel, Julie, Texas A&M University
Chadburn, Sarah, University of Exeter
Jackson, Robert B., Stanford University
Jones, Miriam, US Geological Survey
MacDonald, Glen, University of California Los Angeles
Marushchak, Maija, University of Jyväskylä
Olefeldt, David, University of Alberta
Packalen, Maara, University of Toronto
Siewert, Matthias B., Umeå University
Treat, Claire, Alfred Wegener Institute
Turestsky, Merritt, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Voigt, Carolina, University of Montreal
Yu, Zicheng, Lehigh University
gustaf.hugelius@natgeo.su.se
Published Aug 18, 2020 on Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.7m0cfxprn

Cite this dataset

Hugelius, Gustaf et al. (2020). Maps of northern peatland extent, depth, carbon storage and nitrogen storage [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.7m0cfxprn

Abstract

This dataset is grids of peatland extent, peat depth, peatland organic carbon storage, peatland total nitrogen storage and approximate extent of ombrotrophic/minerotrophic peatlands. 

The grids are geotiff files in 10 km pixel resolution projected in the World Azimuthal Equidistant projection. Note that the peat depth grid shows potential peat depth everywhere,also where there is no peatland cover. For files on peatland organic carbon, total nitrogen extent and extent of ombrotrophic/minerotrophic peatlands, there are separate files for Histosols (non-frozen peatlands) and Histels (frozen peatlands).

For further details on how the data was created we refer to the paper by Hugelius et al (2020) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America: "Large stocks of peatland carbon and nitrogen are vulnerable to permafrost thaw" (https://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1916387117)

Methods

For further details on how the data was created we refer to the paper by Hugelius et al (2020) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America: "Large stocks of peatland carbon and nitrogen are vulnerable to permafrost thaw" (https://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1916387117)