Dataset name: Top 3m Northern Circumpolar Soil Carbon Database V2 (NCSCDv2) Variable names: NCSCDv2 Reference of original data: Tarnocai, C., Canadell, J. G., Schuur, E. A. G., Kuhry, P., Mazhi- tova, G., and Zimov, S.: Soil organic carbon pools in the north- ern circumpolar permafrost region, Glob. Biogeochem. Cy., 23, GB2023, doi:10.1029/2008GB003327, 2009. Downloaded site: http://bilin.su.se/data/ncscd Downloaded Date: Mar. 4, 2014 Downloaded by: Mingquan Mu Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine Name and version of original source: NCSCDv2 Start date: annual End date: annual Temporal resolution: yearly Spatial resolution: 0.5x0.5 degree Unit: 0.1 Kg C /m2 Data format: netCDF