Urban–rural contrasts in summer soil-surface temperature and active-layer thickness, Barrow, Alaska, USA

Klene, Anna E.; Nelson, Frederick E.; Hinkel, Kenneth M.

doi:10.1080/1088937x.2012.706756

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“…Utqiaġvik is the northernmost community in the U.S. Arctic, located on the Chukchi Sea. The town is built entirely on continuous, ice-rich permafrost, with maximum active layer depths of 35 to 50 cm (Klene et al 2013). Residents of Utqiaġvik are aware of the infrastructural issues facing their city: frost-jacking, subsidence, standing water, snowdrifts, coastal erosion, and disrupted utilities are all problems encountered at varying degrees of severity every year.…”

Section: Change Toward Adaptable Landscapesmentioning

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Observing social-ecological design of permafrost landscapes: grounding urban planning in Utqiaġvik, Alaska

Bradley

2024

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How can Utqiaġvik develop new strategies of urban design on changing permafrost? Ongoing ethnographic analysis of the University of Virginia's project, "Understanding the Changing Natural-Built Landscape: An Integrated Urban Sensor Network in Utqiaġvik, AK," provides insight into how "design process" can help develop adaptive urban permafrost landscapes. Anthropological analysis of designers provides insight into how interdisciplinary practices create social-ecological change, and this paper builds on previous ethnographic work of the socio-political aspects of infrastructure and urban space. This UVA project uses design process, a collaborative approach common in architecture and other fields, in partnership with utilities and public services in Utqiaġvik, to co-develop relationships between urban planning, micrometeorological and ecological data, and permafrost. I analyze preliminary ethnographic observations of the cooperative dynamics of this project, including crossdisciplinary data collection structure, a "design studio" course's production of data-informed design proposals, developing discussions of water, snow, and thermal management, and input from community partners. Local residents have clear relationships of savvy renegotiation of the built environment, and snow removal maintenance emerged as a potential crux of designed change connecting hydrological data, ground temperatures, infrastructural impacts, and public services. Visualization of potential design solutions provides an accessible projection of possibilities for change that allow reconceptualization of relationships between city and permafrost. I argue that this project's work, as an iterative design process, integrates data, community experiences, and creative ideation. This integration allows Arctic urban residents and planners to redesign interactions with the land grounded in conceptions of permafrost as a social-ecological infrastructure and malleable architecture, potentially promoting senses of lived engagement with the changing land.

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Observing social-ecological design of permafrost landscapes: grounding urban planning in Utqiaġvik, Alaska

Bradley

2024

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“…Air temperature in the Barrow city (Alaska) and its surroundings has been monitored since 2001 through 70 temperature data loggers, for highlighting winter urban heat island [38] and urban-suburban soil temperature contrasts [39]. The winter heat urban effects were also investigated in the arctic city of Norilsk (Russia), using data provided by automatic weather stations, iButton sensors, combined with MODIS remote sensing data [40].…”

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Meteorological and Ancillary Data Resources for Climate Research in Urban Areas

Cheval

Micu

Dumitrescu

et al. 2020

Climate

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An increasing plethora of both meteorological and ancillary data are presently available for climate research and applications in urban areas. The data are often held by local or national institutions (i.e., meteorological services, universities or environmental agencies). This paper outlines a total number of 33 datasets, organized into three main categories of meteorological data resources (14 datasets) and four categories of ancillary data resources (19 datasets), selected for their potential to support urban climate studies, but also for their free accessibility. Such a collection cannot be exhaustive, but we aim to draw the attention of the scientific community to relevant datasets, freely available at temporal and spatial resolutions appropriate for urban climatology. Each dataset contains information about its availability, limitations, and examples of research in urban areas.

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Spatial structure and temporal variability of a surface urban heat island in cold continental climate

Esau

Miles

Varentsov

et al. 2019

Theor Appl Climatol

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Urban–rural contrasts in summer soil-surface temperature and active-layer thickness, Barrow, Alaska, USA

Cited by 11 publications

References 43 publications

Observing social-ecological design of permafrost landscapes: grounding urban planning in Utqiaġvik, Alaska

Observing social-ecological design of permafrost landscapes: grounding urban planning in Utqiaġvik, Alaska

Meteorological and Ancillary Data Resources for Climate Research in Urban Areas

Spatial structure and temporal variability of a surface urban heat island in cold continental climate

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