Climate Forcing at the Arctic LTER Site

• Main Authors: Hobbie, John E., Bettez, Neil
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University Press 2003
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Fairbanks; Haugan; Haugen; Northern Foothills; Brooks Range; Prudhoe Bay; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195150599.003.0011

The Arctic LTER site is located at 68º38'N and 149º43'W, at an elevation of 760 m in the northern foothills of the Brooks Range, Alaska. The location, 208 km south of Prudhoe Bay, was chosen for accessibility to the Dalton Highway, which extends along the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline from nor...