Post-fire carbon and energy flux and meteorological data from Scotty Creek, Northwest Territories from 2023-2024

Fire is on the rise in the arctic boreal region and thus it is important to understand the impacts on ecosystem function post-fire. With permafrost thaw, understanding how fire impacts ecosystems in the permafrost region is vital to understand feedbacks from fire and permafrost thaw and how these ecosystem disturbances interact with each other. Here, we had a unique opportunity from an unfortunate even where a fire burned down and long-term research site in the Northwest Territories, Canada in October of 2022. With the funding from the NSF RAPID award, we quickly rebuilt the eddy covariance tower and published a first of its kind dataset of carbon (carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4)) and energy fluxes, before and after fire and the same exact location.