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 suppl...