| Site: |
Ochre River (C13) |
| Location: |
63°27'59"N. 123°41'35"W. |
| Elevation: |
97 meters |
| Slope: |
flat |
| Landform: |
low fluvial terrace cut into glaciolacustrine plain |
| Soil: |
30 cm of organic litter over silt |
| Vegetation: |
Complete ground cover of moss and typical Boreal vascular plants, 3 suggesting high moisture content, under mixed black spruce, moderate canopy density |
| Snow: |
35-40 cm. snow pack |
| Installations: |
-Thaw tube for active layer development |
| |
-Time domain reflectometry probes to 60, 90 and 120 cm |
| |
-7 themistor string to 1.8 m depth (discontinued October 1998) |
| |
-7 sensor soil temperature and potential to 48 cm (discontinued Aug.
1999) |
| |
-air and ground temperature mast |
| |
|
|
air |
ground (7 cm) |
| |
1994 |
Mean |
-4.94 |
0.48 |
| |
|
Max. |
34.13 |
19.01 |
| |
|
Min. |
-47.15 |
-12.67 |
| |
1995 |
Mean |
-3.41 |
0.70 |
| |
|
Max. |
32.81 |
18.33 |
| |
|
Min. |
-44.17 |
-15.62 |
| |
1996 |
Mean |
-6.43 |
-1.02 |
| |
|
Max. |
34.65 |
19.33 |
| |
|
Min. |
-46.61 |
-12.94 |
| |
1997 |
Mean |
-3.98 |
1.26 |
| |
|
Max. |
33.63 |
18.75 |
| |
|
Min. |
-44.98 |
-8.48 |
| |
1998 |
Mean |
-2.47 |
0.58 |
| |
|
Max |
32.81 |
18.96 |
| |
|
Min |
-45.35 |
-14.67 |
| |
1999 |
Mean |
-4.17 |
-1.06 |
| |
|
Max |
33.78 |
15.02 |
| |
|
Min |
-43.48 |
-17.38 |
| |
2000 |
Mean |
-5.34 |
-0.46 |
| |
|
Max |
30.45 |
12.41 |
| |
|
Min |
-46.42 |
-9.82 |
| Met Station: |
Wrigley, 63°13'N. 123°26'W. |
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