2008 Experimental Catchment Snow Survey (depth and density) Measurements, Cape Bounty Melville Island

A total of eight 15 m long fences and two 30 m fences were added to the PX1 catchment, and four 15 m length snow fences were installed in the PX4 catchment. The snow fence was 1.2 m in height and consisted of orange plastic with an oriented oval grid design that provided 50% porosity (Quest Plastics...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lafreniere, Melissa
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: Canadian Cryospheric Information Network 2013
Subjects:
Cape Bounty
Snow cover
Snow density
Snow fence
Snow manipulation
Snow water equivalent SWE
ArcticNet Network of Centres of Excellence of Canada
International Polar Year-Climate change and permafrost impacts on High Arctic watershed fluxes Cape Bounty, Melville Island experimental watershed observatory
Arctic
Canada
ArcticNet
Climate change
International Polar Year
permafrost
Melville Island
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5443/11580
https://www.polardata.ca/pdcsearch/?doi_id=11580
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Summary:A total of eight 15 m long fences and two 30 m fences were added to the PX1 catchment, and four 15 m length snow fences were installed in the PX4 catchment. The snow fence was 1.2 m in height and consisted of orange plastic with an oriented oval grid design that provided 50% porosity (Quest Plastics Limited, Canada). Snow depth was measured every 25 m and density was measured every 50 m. A 100 X 200 meter grid area was surveyed for each of PX2 and PX1, and one 100 by 200 meter grid was surveyed for PX3 and PX4 combined. Snow depth was determined using an avalanche probe (±0.5 cm), and density was determined using a hanging scale (0.02 kg resolution) and a 3.7 cm (Mt. Rose or Federal, Rickly Hydrological Company) or a 7.0 cm (Prairie, Rickly Hydrological Company) diameter snow core tube depending on snow depth, the latter for snow depths < 50cm. The mean ambient (i.e. background or unamended) snow depth was determined as the average depth from all points within the catchment that were not within a drift (PX4: n=1; PX1: n=6). The SWE for each transect is determined using the product of the mean depth and density for the site. : Purpose: Snow surveys were conducted across a series of 4 catchments located within the West River watershed. Two of the four catchments were amended with snow fences (PX4, PX1) to augment the end of winter snow accumulation, together with two additional unamended control catchments of similar vegetative cover (PX2, PX3). : Summary: Not Applicable

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