Site: Marmot Creek Research Basin

Station: Upper Clearing (50.95654, -115.1754)

Station: Hay Meadow (50.94410, -115.1389)

Station: Vista View (50.97093, -115.17219)

Station: Centennial Ridge (50.94472, -115.19370)

Station: Fisera Ridge (50.95681, -115.20443)

 

Type

Variable

Frequency

Period

Availability

Storage

Note

Meteo

Air temperature, RH, wind speed and direction, barometric pressure, net radiation, net radiation components: down- and upwelling longwave radiation (lwd, lwu), down- and upwelling shortwave irradiance (swd, swu); soil heat flux, soil temperature, precipitation (from weighing gauge such as a Geonor or Belfort), event rainfall (from tipping bucket-type rain gauge), snow fall

15 min

2005-2018

CCRN Local

Database

Long term observations of T, RH, U, Precip, in Marmot Creek basin or region at different elevations from 1939 to present (U from late 1960s). Available locally, not in the database

Soil moisture

Soil volumetric water content profiles

4 hr

2011-2018

CCRN Local

Database

Historical records available locally

Ground water

Ground water table

 

Late 60s

Local

Files

 

Hydrometric

Discharge

 

1962-2013

Local

Files

WSC+CFH

Forest cover

Forest cover maps

 

 

Local

Files

Forest cover maps and other documentation provide the timing and extent of large scale clearcutting in the Cabin Creek sub-basin in the 1970s and the clearing of small forest gaps in the Twin Creek sub-basin  in the 1980s.

 

 

Database metadata links

Stations:

http://giws.usask.ca:8080/KiWIS/KiWIS?service=kisters&type=queryServices&request=getStationList&datasource=0&format=html&site_no=S001&returnfields=station_name,station_no,station_latitude,station_longitude,site_name

Upper Clearing parameters:

http://giws.usask.ca:8080/KiWIS/KiWIS?service=kisters&type=queryServices&request=getParameterList&datasource=0&format=html&station_no=RMM_UC1_00

Hay Meadow parameters:

http://giws.usask.ca:8080/KiWIS/KiWIS?service=kisters&type=queryServices&request=getParameterList&datasource=0&format=html&station_no=RMM_HM1_00

Vista View parameters:

http://giws.usask.ca:8080/KiWIS/KiWIS?service=kisters&type=queryServices&request=getParameterList&datasource=0&format=html&station_no=RMM_VV1_00

Centennial Ridge parameters:

http://giws.usask.ca:8080/KiWIS/KiWIS?service=kisters&type=queryServices&request=getParameterList&datasource=0&format=html&station_no=RMM_NA1_00

Fisera Ridge parameters:

http://giws.usask.ca:8080/KiWIS/KiWIS?service=kisters&type=queryServices&request=getParameterList&datasource=0&format=html&station_no=RMM_FR1_00

 

Current status of the data and milestones

 

Published data paper:

Fang, X., Pomeroy, J., DeBeer, C., Harder, P., & Siemens, E. (2019).  Hydrometeorological data from Marmot Creek Research Basin, Canadian Rockies [Dataset]. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 455-471, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-455-2019

 

Published dataset:

Fang, X., Pomeroy, J., DeBeer, C., Harder, P., & Siemens, E. (2018).  Hydrometeorological data from Marmot Creek Research Basin, Canadian Rockies [Dataset]. Federated Research Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.20383/101.09

 

 

Marmot site contact:

Greg Galloway

Research Technician

greg.galloway@usask.ca

 

Centre for Hydrology

University of Saskatchewan

Coldwater Laboratory, Canmore, AB

 

Data management requests:

Amber Peterson

amber.peterson@usask.ca

 

Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan

National Hydrology Research Centre

11 Innovation Boulevard, Saskatoon, SK S7N 3H5, Canada

Ph: (306)966-6165  Fax: (306)966-1193