Nordicana D30 / DOI : 10.5885/45465CE-1CDBEA34D928494E

Air temperature at the summit of Mont Jacques-Cartier (Gaspé peninsula) 2012-2015

Daniel Fortier ^1,2, Gautier Davesne ², James Gray ³

Corresponding author : ¹Auteur pour la correspondance / Corresponding author

² Géocryolab, Département de Géographie, Université de Montréal et Centre d'études nordiques
³ Département de Géographie, Université de Montréal

Abstract

The available dataset is the unique continuous measurement of the air temperature on the summit of Mont Jacques-Cartier (1263 m a.s.l.). This summit represents the highest peak of the Chic-Chocs Mountains in the Gaspé Peninsula. This unique site is characterised by typical periglacial landforms (e.g. sorted polygons, sorted stripes, blockfield), by a marginal alpine permafrost body and by a alpine tundra vegetation cover (Gray et al., 2017). Air temperature data are recorded every hour by a U22-001 datalogger (Hobo®; resolution of 0.2°C, accuracy of +/- 0.21°C), which is installed 1 m above the ground surface (GPS: 48°59,268 N; 65°56,937 W). The dataset covers the period 1/12/2012-23/09/2015. The data will be updated after each field trip.

Gray JT, Davesne G, Godin E, Fortier D. 2017. The Thermal Regime of Mountain Permafrost at the Summit of Mont Jacques-Cartier in the Gaspé Peninsula, Québec, Canada: A 37 Year Record of Fluctuations showing an Overall Warming Trend, Permafrost Periglacial Processes, 28, 266-274. DOI: 10.1002/ppp.1903.

Data citation

Fortier D., Davesne, G., Gray, J. 2017. Air temperature at the summit of Mont Jacques-Cartier (Gaspé peninsula) 2012-2015, v. 1.0 (2012-2015). Nordicana D30, doi: 10.5885/45465CE-1CDBEA34D928494E.

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Key references

Davesne G., Fortier D., Dominé F., Gray J.T. 2016. Wind driven snow conditions control the occurrence of contemporary marginal mountain permafrost in the Chic-Chocs Mountains, south-eastern Canada – a case study from Mont Jacques-Cartier, The Cryosphere. DOI: .

Gray J.T., Davesne G., Godin E., Fortier D. 2017. The Thermal Regime of Mountain Permafrost at the Summit of Mont Jacques-Cartier in the Gaspé Peninsula, Québec, Canada: A 37 Year Record of Fluctuations showing an Overall Warming Trend, Permafrost Periglacial Processes, 28, 266-274. DOI: .

Contributors

Godin , Étienne (Géocryolab, Département de Géographie, Université de Montréal )

Acknowledgements

We thank the Parc National de la Gaspésie especially François Boulanger, Pascal Lévesque, and Claude Isabel for their assistance with logistical aspects of the research and for the use of facilities