The past decade includes some of the most extensive boreal forest fires in the historical record. Environmental drivers include warming temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, desiccation of thick organic soil layers, and increased ignition frequency from lightning. Wildland fires produce smoke aerosols that can travel thousands of kilometers, before blanketing the surfaces on which they fall, such as the Juneau Icefield of Alaska. This data release presents chemical constituent and physical particulate results from investigations of wildland fire smoke deposits and other atmospheric deposition characteristics stored in layers of ice in the Juneau Icefield of Alaska, USA (Tables 1 and 2). We drilled a series of four firn cores in summer of 2016 and two cores in summer of 2017 in cooperation with the Juneau Icefield Research Program (JIRP). The ice core sampling locations are shown in the Juneau Icefield Alaska Map jpg graphic. The JIRP cores comprise a transect that spans the high-precipitation southwestern slopes of the Juneau Icefield (Lemon Creek and Taku Glaciers), to the relatively drier sites of the central plateau (Matthes Glacier), and ends at the top of the Llewellyn Glacier, which is experiencing some of the most dramatic melt on the entire icefield. A new gas chromatography tandem mass spectrometry method was developed to analyze all ice core samples (2016 and 2017) for monosaccharide anhydrides, which are unique molecular identifiers of biomass combustion, rather than fossil fuel combustion (Tables 3 and 4). The 2016 ice samples were also analyzed for major ions, particle counts, and stable isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen in water which are also present in this data release (Table 4).

This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology. The associated NCEI study type is Fire. The data include parameters of fire history|paleolimnology with a geographic location of Alaska, United States Of America. The time period coverage is from 35430 to -62 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data.

This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology. The associated NCEI study type is Fire. The data include parameters of fire history|paleolimnology with a geographic location of United States Of America. The time period coverage is from 7444 to -42 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data.

This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology. The associated NCEI study type is Fire. The data include parameters of fire history|paleolimnology with a geographic location of Alaska, United States Of America. The time period coverage is from 11481 to -57 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data.

This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology. The associated NCEI study type is Fire. The data include parameters of fire history|paleolimnology with a geographic location of Alaska, United States Of America. The time period coverage is from 12100 to -47 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data.

This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology. The associated NCEI study type is Fire. The data include parameters of fire history|paleolimnology with a geographic location of Alaska, United States Of America. The time period coverage is from 10369 to -58 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data.

This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology. The associated NCEI study type is Fire. The data include parameters of fire history|paleolimnology with a geographic location of Alaska, United States Of America. The time period coverage is from 10642 to -57 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data.

This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology. The associated NCEI study type is Fire. The data include parameters of fire history|paleolimnology with a geographic location of Alaska, United States Of America. The time period coverage is from 1121 to -58 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data.

This data set provides estimates of annual carbon emissions (kg carbon per square meter) from boreal fires at 450-m resolution for the state of Alaska between 2001 and 2013. To produce these data, daily burned area for 2001 to 2013 was mapped using imagery from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) combined with perimeters from the Alaska Large Fire Database. Carbon consumption was calibrated using available field measurements from black spruce forests in Alaska. Above- and below-ground carbon consumption were modeled based on environmental variables including elevation, day of burning within the fire season, pre-fire tree cover and the differenced normalized burn ratio (dNBR). Modeled uncertainties in carbon consumption are included in the data set. The derived burn area and carbon emissions product, referred to as the Alaskan Fire Emissions Database (AKFED), provides a resource for study of the environmental controls on daily fire dynamics, boreal fire emissions in biogeochemical models, and potential feedbacks from changing fire regimes.

This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology. The associated NCEI study type is Fire. The data include parameters of fire history|paleolimnology with a geographic location of Alaska, United States Of America. The time period coverage is from 3000 to -57 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data.