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CALM SITE A1 |
NAME |
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Site code |
A1 |
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Site name |
Scatt Base |
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CAPS I
Metadata form |
_________ |
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CAPS II
Metadata form |
_________ |
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Site
Photograph (link) |
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Responsible
for data submission |
Tanya O'Neill |
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Email Address |
tanya.o'neill@waikato.ac.nz |
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Institution/Organization |
University of
Waikato |
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Location
description |
Scott Base,
Antarctica |
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Location Lat. |
77850.892' S |
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Location Lon. |
166845.642' E |
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Elevation
avg. (m) |
38
m______________ |
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Methods Grid |
__________________ |
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Methods Other |
__________________ |
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Landscape
Description |
Back slope (6
degrees) |
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Vegetation
/Classification |
None______________ |
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Soils (or
Material) |
Scoria
dominated till |
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Thaw depth
measurements (year started)
|
1999______________ |
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Air temp. measurements
(year started) |
1999______________ |
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Snow cover
measurements (year started) |
N/A_______________ |
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soil temp. measurements (year started) |
1999______________ |
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soil moisture
measurements (year started) |
1999______________ |
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general
description of soil moisture (dry, moist, wet, saturated) |
dry________________ |
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soil texture:
if non organic describe texture, if organic indicate thickness of organic
layer (cm) |
Gravelly
loamy coarse sand |
SITE
DESCRIPTION
The Scott Base Station is on
Ross Island, which borders both the Ross Ice Shelf and
the Ross Sea. The station is
situated about 100 m north of Scott Base on
the back slope of a side
slope at an elevation of 38 m. The cross slope shape is.
convex. Surface fragments cover is
about 50%.
SOIL
DESCRIPTION:
(predominant texture, i.e., ‘sand’, ‘gravel’,
‘peat’, etc.): Dystri Turbi-Histic
(Gleyic), Gleyi-Turbic Cryosols (loamy)
Sandy-skeletal, mixed, hypergelic Typic Haplorthels
SAMPLING
DESIGN AND METHOD:
This station monitors soil
temperature to a depth of 120 cm, soil water content at (2, 15, 25, and 40 cm
depths), air temperature, relative humidity, solar radiation, net radiation,
and wind (speed and direction). Measurements are made at 20-minute intervals
and averaged and recorded every hour.
REFERENCES:
Below are links to data,
pictures etc.
Site Photos