Meteorological data for the Siksik catchment, North West Territories, Canada for 2013 and 2014
Data comprise meteorological measurements (mean, minimum and maximum daily air temperature, minimum and maximum daily relative humidity, wind speed (kilometres per second at 10metres height), dew point temperature, estimated actual vapour pressure, precipitation, estimated surface resistance, estimated albedo and estimated Potential evapotranspiration (PET)) for the Siksik catchment, North West Territories, Canada for 2013 and 2014. The data were collected under Project HYDRA, a NERC funded UK research project linking Heriot Watt University, the Universities of Durham, Aberdeen and Stirling, and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH), Edinburgh. Project HYDRA is part of the UK Arctic Research Programme. Project HYDRA studies sites in Arctic Canada to investigate the biological, chemical and physical controls on the release of greenhouse gases from permafrost into melt water and to the atmosphere and how these emissions will influence global warming. Full details about this dataset can be found at
https://doi.org/10.5285/5bb560ee-15bf-4ab9-8c2e-3a76c688e69d
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- File identifier
- 5bb560ee-15bf-4ab9-8c2e-3a76c688e69d XML
- Resource type
- dataset
Online resource
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- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Spatial representation type
- textTable
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- Comma-separated values (CSV)
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- WGS 84
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- Environment
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- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2016-05-13
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2013-01-01
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- Meteorological data for the Siksik catchment, North West Territories, Canada at Longitude: 133. 26' 26" W, Latitude: 68. 44' 17"N Elevation: 85 metres, Watershed area: ~1 kilometre squared, time zone: Mountain Standard Time. Daily air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, dew point and precipitation data was taken from http://climate.weather.gc.ca. Climate data was used to estimate actual vapour pressure and surface resistance using FAO methods. Potential evapotranspiration (PET) was estimated using the data and the Penman-Monteith method. Albedo was estimated using hobo shortwave sensor. Thaw depth was estimated using observations and the square root of degree day temperature. Thaw volume was based on thaw depth estimates.
- Distance
- 1 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
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Restrictions on access and use
- Access constraints
- no limitations
- Access constraints
- © NERC/University of Aberdeen
- Access constraints
- If you reuse this data, you should cite: Tetzlaff, D., Lessels, J., Wookey, P. (2016). Meteorological data for the Siksik catchment, North West Territories, Canada for 2013 and 2014. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/5bb560ee-15bf-4ab9-8c2e-3a76c688e69d
Responsible organization (s)
Contact for the resource
- Organisation name
- University of Aberdeen
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- University of Aberdeen
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- University of Aberdeen
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- University of Aberdeen
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
Responsible organization (s)
Contact for the resource
- Organisation name
- University of Aberdeen
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- University of Aberdeen
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- University of Aberdeen
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- University of Aberdeen
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
Metadata information
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- Organisation name
- NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
- info@eidc.ac.uk
- Metadata Date
- 2024-03-05T08:41:15
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- utf8