Detailed weather collection at the Arctic LTER Toolik Lake site (68 degrees
38'N, 149 degrees 36'W) began in June1988 (Toolik
Field Station Met). Data collected include air temperature, wind speed and
direction, relative humidity, solar radiation, precipitation,
barometric pressure, soil temperatures, lake temperature, lake depth, and
evaporation pan depth and pan water temperature. See
Sensors for a detailed description of the sensors
deployed.
Map of Station Locations.
Station Descriptions and links to data:
Toolik Field Station Met
station at Toolik
Field Station (68 degrees 38'N, 149 degrees 36'W) since June 1988. Data
collected include: air temperature, relative humidity and wind speed at 1 and 5
meters, wind direction at 5 meters, global solar radiation, photosynthetically
active radiation (PAR), barometric pressure, precipitation, soil
temperatures, lake temperature, lake depth, and evaporation pan depth and pan
water temperature.
Toolik Moist Acidic Tussock station (68 degrees
37' 27" N, 149 degrees 36' 24"W) was added in 1990 to measure soil and air
temperatures and other weather parameters in the experimental plots in moist
acidic tussock tundra near Toolik Lake.
Toolik Wet Sedge station (68
degrees 37' 57" N, 149 degrees 37' 32"W) was started in 1994, this site
measures soil and air temperatures in the Inlet Wet Sedge Experimental plots
(Block 1) near Toolik Lake.
Toolik Moist Non-Acidic Tussock station
(68 degrees 38' 7" N, 149 degrees 38' 26"W) was added in 1999 to measure soil
and air temperatures in the experimental plots in non-acidic (pH ~ 5.88) moist
tussock tundra.
Sagavanirtuk River station (68 degrees
46'N, 148 degrees 52'W, elevation 470 m) was first started in 1986 recording
data during the summer months. In summer of 1993 the station was maintain year
round.
Other Alaska North Slope weather sites with stations near Toolik Lake
include:
Doug Kane and Larry Hinzman's North Slope Hydrology Research stations (Water and Environmental Research
Center(WERC), University of Alaska Fairbanks)
Alaska Natural Resources Conservation Service's SNOTEL Sites
National Weather Service -
Alaska Region headquarters.
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