Air temperature and wind speed data from a forest vegetation zone in the low-Arctic Tasiapik valley in the forest-tundra ecotone in Northern Quebec

• Main Authors: Lackner, Georg, Domine, Florent, Sarrazin, Denis, Nadeau, Daniel, Belke-Brea, Maria
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2022
• Subjects: Cup anemometer; Vector Instruments; A100; dataset; DATE/TIME; Field measurement; forest-tundra ecotone; Hudson Bay; Humidity-Temperature probe; Rotronic; HC2-S3-XT; meteorological data; Quality flag; wind speed; snow; Soil; Temperature; air; Umiujaq; Umiujaq_2015-2021_Forest; Arctic; Canada; Hudson; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.946439; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.946439

The data collection contains meteorological, soil and snow measurements from two nearby sites in the forest-tundra ecotone in the Tasiapik valley near Umiujaq in northern Quebec, Canada. One site is on a mixture of lichen and shrub tundra and the data set there comprises 9 years of meteorological, soil and snow data as well as 3 years of eddy covariance data. The other site, 850 m away, features vegetation consisting mostly of tall shrubs and black spruce. There, 6 years of meteorological, soil and snow data are available. In addition to the data from the automated stations, profiles of snow density and specific surface area were collected during field campaigns. This data set comprises air temperature and wind speed measurements from the forested vegetation zone.