CEN project

Informations: Site Ward Hunt

Measurement site

  Latitude : 83.09
  Longitude : -74.16
  Altitude (m) :

Site location

   
Sampling around the Centre for Northern Studies research station on Ward Hunt Island, Nunavut, located at the northern tip of Canada, off the coast of Ellesmere Island. Ward Hunt Island is part of Quttinirpaaq National Park of Canada, Nunavut, Canada. Polar Desert Zone

Site description

   
Field measurements acquired in 2016, 2017, and 2019, at the time of maximum snowpack (approximately at maximum snow water equivalent). Number of samples variable by year. For more information on the data, see the references cited in Table 1 of the referenced article Royer et al. 2021, Ecoscience