Precipitation in Northern Quebec and Labrador: An Evaluation of Measurement Techniques
Deals with the systematic errors in climatic data produced by short-period and intermittent records, positioning of isolines on small-scale maps, a station network with only 23 permanent, mostly coastal stations for a 1,450,000 sq km area, imperfect instruments and sampling techniques, and observati...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/66253 2023-05-15T14:19:20+02:00 Precipitation in Northern Quebec and Labrador: An Evaluation of Measurement Techniques Findlay, B.F. 1969-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66253 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66253/50166 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66253 ARCTIC; Vol. 22 No. 2 (1969): June: 85–168; 140-150 1923-1245 0004-0843 Evaporation Nunavik Québec Labrador info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 1969 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:23:07Z Deals with the systematic errors in climatic data produced by short-period and intermittent records, positioning of isolines on small-scale maps, a station network with only 23 permanent, mostly coastal stations for a 1,450,000 sq km area, imperfect instruments and sampling techniques, and observational and recording errors, all of which apply to the Labrador-Ungava region. Indirect methods for adjusting precipation gage data: snow surveying, stream gaging, interception and evapotranspiration calculations and watershed rain gage networks, are discussed. The results, which necessarily are only speculative, suggest a systematic annual error of 6 in. Les précipitations dans le nord du Québec et au Labrador: évaluation des techniques de mesure. La vérification, au moyen de techniques hydrologiques, des cartes publiées de hauteur moyenne des précipitations pour une région continentale subarctique révèle une erreur annuelle systématique de 6 pouces (152 mm). L'analyse a une portée subcontinentale, mais on utilise les valeurs d'une station climatologique centrale pour éclairer les techniques indirectes servant au rajustement des données pluviométriques. Ces méthodes comprennent les mesures d'épaisseur du manteau nival et des débits fluviaux, le calcul de l'interception et de l'évapo-transpiration, et l'établissement de réseaux pluviométriques de bassin. Tous les paramètres hydrologiques se caractérisent par des erreurs inhérentes de mesure et par de courtes séries de données. Conséquemment, les résultats de cette enquête doivent être considérés comme spéculatifs. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic subarctique* Nunavik University of Calgary Journal Hosting Nunavik ARCTIC 22 2 |
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Deals with the systematic errors in climatic data produced by short-period and intermittent records, positioning of isolines on small-scale maps, a station network with only 23 permanent, mostly coastal stations for a 1,450,000 sq km area, imperfect instruments and sampling techniques, and observational and recording errors, all of which apply to the Labrador-Ungava region. Indirect methods for adjusting precipation gage data: snow surveying, stream gaging, interception and evapotranspiration calculations and watershed rain gage networks, are discussed. The results, which necessarily are only speculative, suggest a systematic annual error of 6 in. Les précipitations dans le nord du Québec et au Labrador: évaluation des techniques de mesure. La vérification, au moyen de techniques hydrologiques, des cartes publiées de hauteur moyenne des précipitations pour une région continentale subarctique révèle une erreur annuelle systématique de 6 pouces (152 mm). L'analyse a une portée subcontinentale, mais on utilise les valeurs d'une station climatologique centrale pour éclairer les techniques indirectes servant au rajustement des données pluviométriques. Ces méthodes comprennent les mesures d'épaisseur du manteau nival et des débits fluviaux, le calcul de l'interception et de l'évapo-transpiration, et l'établissement de réseaux pluviométriques de bassin. Tous les paramètres hydrologiques se caractérisent par des erreurs inhérentes de mesure et par de courtes séries de données. Conséquemment, les résultats de cette enquête doivent être considérés comme spéculatifs. |
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Precipitation in Northern Quebec and Labrador: An Evaluation of Measurement Techniques |
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