CEN project

Informations: Site Schefferville

 

Photo mosaic illustrating the sampling sites around Scheffeville. Photos 2 and 4: snow pit for density and temperature measurements. 1 and 3 photo credit Ludovic Brucker, 2008; 2 and 4 photo credit Patrick Cliche, 2008.

Measurement site

  Latitude : 54.9
  Longitude : -66.7
  Altitude (m) :

Site location

   
Located in a forest tundra zone near the town of Schefferville, a former mining site.

Site description

   
Series of measurements acquired in late February 2008, as part of the International Polar Year (IPY) project, grid sampling at approximately 1 km intervals, in an 8 km x 16 km grid. For more information on the data, see the references cited in Table 1 of the referenced article Royer et al. 2021, Ecoscience