Site: Havikpak Creek, NWT

 

Type

Variable

Frequency

Period

Availability

Storage

Note

Meteorological

Precip, Air Temp, RH, WindSpeed, WindDir, Incoming SW, Outgoing SW, Incoming LW, Outgoing LW

Half hourly

1991-2013

Local

Files and Database

Precipitation measured by NHRC at this site is rain only (tipping bucket rain gauge). For the first 10 years of record, we also had a manual snow nipher. Have data for 1998-2014 in total with various instrument for each parameter in WISKI under Havikpak main 1 station.

Hydrometric

Water level and streamflow at WSC station 10LC017

Hourly

1996-2013

Local

Online

Files

1996-2010  (~4 to 5 times per year by WSC)

1991-1999 (mostly in spring season by NHRC)

Snow surveys

Snow depth (acoustic sensor SR50), Soil temperatures, Soil water content (TDR), Soil heat flux,  Barometric pressure

Annually

1991-2013

(Some years missed)

 

Local

Files and Database

Conducted each spring in mid to late April. We have SnowDepth data for 1998-2000 and 2003-2014 in total with various height in Wiski at main1 station. Soil data has 98-2000, 2003-2005 and 2003-2014 in WISKI under main 2, 3 stations.

 

Current status of the data and milestones

 

Data sets are available from Environment Canada and Wilfrid Laurier University.

 

Havikpak Creek contact

 

Philip Marsh

Professor and Canada Research Chair in Cold Regions Water Sciences

Dept. of Geography and Environmental Studies

Wilfrid Laurier University

Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5

philip.marsh@outlook.com

226-868-1941