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

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Ground temperatures at Liefdefjord, northwest Svalbard

SITE DATA FILE:

Site no.:
(site number assigned by the researcher) : SPE1

Source of data: (enter names)
Name of investigator: Lorenz King
Name of institute: Geographical Institute, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Data type: (check or specify)
Temperature log

Location: (enter Long. Lat. or UTM)
Longitude: 12 58.5 E
Latitude: 79 34.8 N

Geodetic datum: (enter datum used in original work):
1990

Elevation a.s.l.:
(m): 45 m a.s.l.

Aspect (slope orientation): (check one)
North

Slope angle (degree):
2

Landform: (check one)
Ridged

Material: (check one)
Morainal (till)

Texture of material: (check one)
Coarse, gravelly

Drainage: (check one)
Rapidly drained

Vegetation type: (check one)
Tundra, broken herb

Vegetation cover (%):
10%

Anthropogenically disturbed site: (check one)
No

Fire history: (enter number of years since fire)

Remarks: (free format text - any additional information about the site that may be important to users of the data)

Shallow ground temperature measurements are:
Automatic (logger): Yes

Temperature sensor is:
Pt100 Resistant Thermometer

Sampling rate (period of measurement)
_60__ days and averaging period of individual measurements _1__ days

Time standard used is UT/GMT

Accuracy is:
plus/minus _0.1__ degrees Celsius in temperature
plus/minus _0.02__ metres in depth

Comments:

Please cite these data as follows:

King, L. 1998. Ground temperatures at Liefdefjord, northwest Svalbard. 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.