Scotty Creek, NWT (61 deg. 18’ N; 121 deg. 18 ‘ W)
               

Type

Variable

Frequency

Period

Availability

Storage

Note

Meteo

Air temperature, RH, IR ground surface temperature, wind speed and direction, net radiation, incoming and outgoing shortwave and longwave radiation, snow depth, ground heat flux, snow temperature, soil temperature (0-100 cm), precipitation (tipping bucket), Geonor, Pluvio.

30 min

2004-2017

Local

Files and Database

Bog Tower and Plateau Tower have data for 2004-17, Dense Tower has data for 2007-17. Air temperature, RH, net radiation, incoming and outgoing shortwave and longwaveradiation on WISKI.

Soil Moisture

Volumetric soil moisture

30 min

GB3: 2000-2001

GB PL: 2002-2012

Local

Files and Database

Bog Tower and Plateau Tower have data for 2004-17on WISKI.

Hydrometric

Water level, discharge, water temperature

15 min stage

1999-

Public

Files

Snow Surveys

Depth, density, SWE

Variable

1995-

Local

Files

RS data

Elevation (Lidar); vegetation (high resolution multispectral); soil moisture (RadarSat 2). 

 

 

Local

Files

High-resolution LiDAR data.

 

 

Current status of the data and milestones

Data sets are available from Wilfrid Laurier University.

 

Haynes, K.M., Connon, R.F., & Quinton, W.L. (2018). Hydrometeorological measurements in peatland-dominated, discontinuous permafrost at Scotty Creek, Northwest Territories, Canada [Dataset]. Scholars Portal Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.5683/SP/OQDRJG

 

Quinton, W.L., Connon, R.F., Devoie, E.G., Hayashi, M., & Veness, T. (2018). Micrometeorological and freeze-thaw data at Scotty Creek, NT 2001-2017 [Canada] [Dataset]. Scholars Portal Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.5683/SP/EMDB8K

 

Scotty Creek contact

William L. (Bill) Quinton

Associate Professor and CRC in Cold Regions Hydrology

Wilfrid Laurier University,

75 University Ave. West

Waterloo Ontario, Canada, N2L 3C5

tel. 519-884-0710 ext. 3281

wquinton@wlu.ca

http://www.wlu.ca/faculty/wquinton

http://taigaplains.ca/

http://coldregions.ca/