Meteorological and Radiation Data, Kuparuk River and Nearby Watersheds, Alaska: Imnavait B site (IB) and Imnavait Weir (IH), 2017-2023

The data files in this data set contain climate information from sites on the North Slope of Alaska in or near the Kuparuk River basin. The data was collected for a hydrologic study of rivers in the North Slope region between 1985-present. Hydro-meteorological stations were established at various locations throughout the Kuparuk, but also in the Putuligayuk and Sagavanirktok watersheds. The variables collected at most stations were air temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, soil temperature, snow temperature, precipitation, snow depth, and radiation. In the Imnavait Creek watershed (headwaters of the Kuparuk River), the Imnavait B site (IB) meteorological station operated from 1986 to present. This data package contains meteorological data from the Imnavait B site (IB) station and snow depth from the nearby station in the valley bottom (Imnavait Creek weir [IH]) collected from 2017 to 2023. Variables in this data package include air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, rainfall, and radiation at the Imnavait B site (IB) (2018-2023) and winter snow depth at Imnavait Weir (IH) (2017-2023). IMPORTANT NOTE: This dataset contains Imnavait B site (IB) meteorological data for 2018-2023. Updates and corrections to Imnavait B site (IB) (and others) were made in 2021 to the original datasets by the investigators, and all of the previously published data files (prior to 2008) should be replaced with the updated dataset (1985-2018) available at https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi%3A10.18739%2FA2TQ5RF72. The following corrections were made to the datasets originally published in 2008 and 2010 (for data collected 1985-2008): 1) data from annual .csv files were merged into one .csv file (for each station) containing all years of data, 2) appended new data collected from 2008 to 2018 into the .csv file 3) standardized file headers, 4) standardized variable names, units, and sensor installation height above ground surface 5) reviewed all data for quality assurance and added qualifiers to erroneous data, 6) added a data qualifier to wind data during periods of extensive riming on wind sensors, 7) added a qualifier when air temperatures are below -39 degrees Celsius (C) (minimum reporting temperature of some air temperature sensors), and 8) removed duplicative data and fixed timestamp issues. See https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/urn%3Auuid%3Ad5fa4cfa-b84b-4970-926a-8dd10b418e6d for additional climate data from other nearby stations in our studies.