Note: This data set was first published on the 1998 CAPS CD.
The text for this document was taken unchanged from that CD.

See also Description of Data Files.

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INTERNATIONAL PERMAFROST ASSOCIATION DATA AND INFORMATION WORKING GROUP GLOBAL GEOCRYOLOGICAL DATABASE SITE DATA FILE

Version 2.0, 23 April 1998

SITE DATA FILE:

• Site no.: ZEROCALM-1

• Source of data:
  Name of investigator: GeoBasis run by Morten Rasch
  Name of institute: Danish Polar Center

• Data type: Temperature log

• Location UTM:
  ZONE 27, 8264700 m N, 513400 m E

• Geodetic datum:
  WGS-84

• Elevation a.s.l.:
  36.1 - 37.5 m a.s.l.

• Aspect (slope orientation):
  SW

• Slope angle (degree):
  0.1 - 2 deg.

• Landform:
  Marine abraded meltwater plain with some ground moraine

• Material:
  Fluvial and diamictic sediments

• Texture of material:
  Sandy with some gravel

• Drainage:
  Well drained

• Vegetation type:
  Tundra, low shrub (Cassiope heath with Salix, Vaccinium, mosses and lichens)

• Vegetation cover (%):
  100

Anthropogenically disturbed site: No

Remarks:

INTERNATIONAL PERMAFROST ASSOCIATION GLOBAL GEOCRYOLOGICAL DATABASE

Metadata to accompany shallow ground temperature measurements

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Shallow ground temperature measurements are: Automatic logger (Campbell Scientific Instruments CR10)

Temperature sensor is: Thermistor (PT100)

Sampling rate (period of measurement) 24 measurements pr. day

Time standard used is UTC/GMT.

Accuracy is: plus/minus 0.3 degrees Celsius on temperature, plus/minus 0.01 m on depth

Comments:

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INTERNATIONAL PERMAFROST ASSOCIATION DATA AND INFORMATION WORKING GROUP GLOBAL GEOCRYOLOGICAL DATABASE SITE DATA FILE

Version 2.0, 23 April 1998

SITE DATA FILE:

• Site no.: ZEROCALM-2

• Source of data:
  Name of investigator:Geobasis run by Morten Rasch
  Name of institute: Danish Polar Center

• Data type:
  Temperature log

• Location UTM:
  ZONE 27, 82641000 m N, 513000 m E

• Geodetic datum:
  WGS-84

• Elevation a.s.l.:
  10.75 - 22.0 m a.s.l.

• Aspect (slope orientation):
  SSE

• Slope angle (degree):
  1 - 14 deg.

• Landform:
  Two levels of a delta holding a seasonal snowpatch site

• Material:
  Fluvial and marine sediments

• Texture of material:
  Sandy

• Drainage:
  Partly well-drained and partly badly-drained

• Vegetation type:
  Tundra, low shrub (Vegetation zones of Dryas, Cassiope, Salix, moss and grass according to period of snow cover)

• Vegetation cover (%):
  100

Anthropogenically disturbed site: No

Remarks:

INTERNATIONAL PERMAFROST ASSOCIATION GLOBAL GEOCRYOLOGICAL DATABASE

Metadata to accompany shallow ground temperature measurements

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Shallow ground temperature measurements are: Automatic logger (TinyTag)

Temperature sensor is: Thermistor

Sampling rate (period of measurement) 12 measurements pr. day

Time standard used is UTC/GMT.

Accuracy is: plus/minus 0.4 degrees Celsius on temperature, plus/minus 0.01 m on depth

Comments:

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Please cite these data from the CAPS Version 1.0 CD-ROM as follows:

Rasch, M. 1998. Active layer monitoring, ZEROCALM-1 and ZEROCALM-2, Zackenberg Research Station, Northeast Greenland. In: International Permafrost Association, Data and Information Working Group, comp. Circumpolar Active-Layer Permafrost System (CAPS), version 1.0. CD-ROM available from National Snow and Ice Data Center, nsidc@kryos.colorado.edu. Boulder, Colorado: NSIDC, University of Colorado at Boulder.