Abstract. Northern peatlands represent one of the largest carbon pools in the
biosphere, but the carbon they store is increasingly vulnerable to
perturbations from climate and land-use change. Meteorological observations
taken directly at peatland areas in Siberia are unique and rare, while
peatlands are characterized by a specific local climate. This paper presents
a hydrological and meteorological dataset collected at the Mukhrino
peatland, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra, Russia, over the period of
8 May 2010 to 31 December 2019. Hydrometeorological data were collected from
stations located at a small pine–shrub–Sphagnum ridge and Scheuchzeria–Sphagnum hollow at ridge–hollow
complexes of ombrotrophic peatland. The monitored meteorological variables
include air temperature, air humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind speed and
direction, incoming and reflected photosynthetically active radiation, net
radiation, soil heat flux, precipitation (rain), and snow depth. A
gap-filling procedure based on the Gaussian process regression model with an
exponential kernel was developed to obtain continuous time series. For the
record from 2010 to 2019, the average mean annual air temperature at the
site was −1.0 ∘C, with the mean monthly temperature of the
warmest month (July) recorded as 17.4 ∘C and for the coldest
month (January) −21.5 ∘C. The average net radiation was about
35.0 W m−2, and the soil heat flux was 2.4 and 1.2 W m−2 for the
hollow and the ridge sites, respectively. The presented data are freely available through Zenodo
(https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4323024, Dyukarev et al.,
2020), last access: 15 December 2020) and can be used in coordination with
other hydrological and meteorological datasets to examine the
spatiotemporal effects of meteorological conditions on local hydrological
responses across cold regions.