CALM SITE U27	COUNCIL 1km GRID
Site code	U27
Site name	Council
CAPS I Metadata form	NA
CAPS II Metadata form	NA
Site Photograph	Data
Responsible for data submission	N. I. Shiklomanov
Email Address	shiklom”-at-“gwu.edu
Institution/Organization	GWU, Washington DC
Location description	Seward Peninsula
Location Lat.	64^o50,326' N,
Location Lon.	163^o 42,857' W
Elevation avg. (m)	61
Methods Grid	1000
Methods Other	Air Temperature, Soil temperature, Soil Moisture
Landscape Description	Glaciated foothills
Vegetation /Classification	tussock tundra
Soils (or Material)
Thaw depth measurements (year started)	2000
Air temp. measurements (year started)	2000
Snow cover measurements (year started)	NA
soil temp. measurements (year started)	2000
soil moisture measurements (year started)	2000
general description of soil moisture (dry, moist, wet, saturated)	Moist to wet
soil texture: if non organic describe texture, if organic indicate thickness of organic layer (cm)	Peat, clay, some areas of gravel

DESCRIPTION OF AREA CONTAINING SITE:

About 80% tussock tundra w/moss, some frost blisters in east portion; about 20 % shrubs, mostly lining small drainages - shrubs are most often tall (2-4 m) and very dense

SAMPLING DESIGN AND METHOD:

1-sq km grid consists of a square array of surveyed permanent stakes separated by 100 m, yielding an 11 × 11 array of sampling nodes on each grid. Thaw depth and snow sampling was conducted twice by manual probing at each stake. The two values for each sampling point are averaged, yielding a maximum of 121 data points per grid per probing date. The active layer was not measured at locations where grid points intersect rocks or deep water.

Council 3m Grid met tower (64 50,326' N, 163 42,619 W), about 100 m from center of east edge of the grid. Climate station has 12 thermistors in the ground ranging from 0-110 cm. Station has 6 soil moisture probes ranging from 5-30 cm depth

DATA

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Data Access (Thaw Depth)