Joint Arctic Weather Project

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Rae, R.W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1951
• Subjects: Accidents; Aerial surveys; Animal distribution; Air navigation; Airplanes; Bird nesting; Canada Geese; Expeditions; Long-tailed Ducks; Maps; Mortality; Radar; Research; Waterfowl; Wildlife habitat; Alert; Nunavut; Arctic regions; Ungava; Péninsule d'; Québec; Greenland; Alaska; Barrow; Arctic; Canada; Cornwallis; Cornwallis Island; Ellef Ringnes Island; Ellesmere Island; Eureka; Isachsen; Mould Bay; Prince Patrick Island
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66981

Historical background of weather observation in Canada, and brief account of U.S. and Canadian cooperation in establishing the present network of five arctic weather stations in the Canadian Arctic Islands. Description of methods of preliminary reconnaissance, choice of sites, air transport of supplies, special problems (fire protection, winter water supply, and morale); scientific program and climatic conditions at these far northern stations, and (in general) the system of communication used for transmitting data. The stations of the network discussed are: Eureka on Ellesmere Island (80 13 N, 86 11 W), Resolute on Cornwallis Island (74 41 N, 94 55 W), Isachsen on Ellef Ringnes Island (78 47 N, 103 32 W), Mould Bay on Prince Patrick Island (76 14 N, 199 50 W) and Alert on Ellesmere Island (82 29 N, 62 15 W). Also abstracted in: Meteorological abstracts and bibliography, Nov. 1951. v. 2, no. 11, p. 879.