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:
Upper Clearing parameters:
Hay Meadow parameters:
Vista View parameters:
Centennial Ridge parameters:
Fisera Ridge parameters:
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
Centre for Hydrology
University of Saskatchewan
Coldwater Laboratory, Canmore, AB
Data management
requests:
Amber Peterson
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