Hydrometeorological observations at three boreal forest sites (aspen, jack pine, and black spruce) located in central Saskatchewan, Canada

Ahmed, Hafiz Faizan

https://ror.org/010x8gc63

University of Saskatchewan

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7002-082X

Helgason, Warren

https://ror.org/010x8gc63

University of Saskatchewan

Barr, Alan G.

https://ror.org/026ny0e17

Environment and Climate Change Canada

Black, T. Andrew

https://ror.org/03rmrcq20

University of British Columbia

2020-10-29T00:30:41Z

2020-10-29T00:30:41Z

2020-10-28

https://www.frdr-dfdr.ca/repo/dataset/e151000a-677f-4167-ba40-9639b109af50

https://doi.org/10.20383/101.0292

Long-term observations are presented here from two coniferous (jack pine and black spruce) and one deciduous (aspen) forest sites located in central Saskatchewan, Canada. These sites were initiated through the Boreal Ecosystem and Atmosphere Study (BOREAS) program during 1994-96 (http://boreas.gsfc.nasa.gov/) and were later operated under the Boreal Ecosystem Research and Monitoring Sites (BERMS) program. All three sites were equipped with rich instrumentation that include walk-up scaffold towers fitted with sensors to measure air temperature, humidity and wind speed, above canopy shortwave and longwave radiation components, as well as fluxes of energy, carbon and water. Other onsite measurements included precipitation, snow depth, snow density, snow temperature, soil temperature and moisture profiles. These observations are useful for an improved understanding about the contrasts among sites. Moreover, the data is also very useful for modelling applications (calibration and validation). In addition to site observations, dynamically downscaled future meteorological observations by the Weather Research Forecast (WRF) model using Pseudo Global Warming (PGW) approach are included in the dataset. The WRF data was biased corrected by quantile-mapping method using the observed dataset. Thus, the data is ideal for testing, development, calibration, improvement, and validation of hydrological and/or land surface models as well as for projecting future changes in critical processes under changing climate.

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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Hydrometeorology

Boreal forest

BERMS

Aspen

Jack pine

Black spruce

Hydrometeorological observations at three boreal forest sites (aspen, jack pine, and black spruce) located in central Saskatchewan, Canada

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2020

1998-01-01/2016-06-30

Dataset

53.629 -106.198

53.916 -104.692

53.987 -105.117

-;-;Saskatchewan;Canada

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

433923-2012

Changing Cold Regions Network (CCRN)

BIOCAP Canada

Fluxnet-Canada Research Network

Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences (CFCAS)

Fluxnet-Canada Research Network

Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences (CFCAS)

Canadian Carbon Program

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

Fluxnet-Canada: Influence of climate and disturbance on carbon cycling in forest and peatland ecosystems

RDF1050701

Earth and related environmental sciences

Hydrology

Hydrometeorology

Sciences de la Terre et sciences de l'environnement connexes

Hydrologie

Hydrométéorologie