CEN project
Site Kuujjuaq
Photo mosaic illustrating the sampling sites around Kuujjuaq. Photo 2: Snow pit for density and temperature measurements. 1, 3 Photo credit Miroslave Chum, 2008; 2 photo credit Ghislain Picard, 2008; 4 photo credit Alain Royer, 2008.
Measurement site
Latitude
58.13
Longitude
-71.9
Altitude (m)
10
Site location
Sampling sites around the village of Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, Canada, about 50 km upstream from Ungava Bay, on the banks of the Koksoak River. Tree line, northern limit of forest tundra and southern limit of low shrub tundra.
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