Sagwon MAT
Description - Data - Site Map - Photos
Site Description:
Location:
1.5 km south of Sagwon MNT site
N 69 25' 32.6", W 148 41' 33.6"
Elevation:
300 m
Site Equipment/Installations:
- Climate/Soil conditions monitoring station (Romanovsky)
- 10 x 10 m grid
- Frost heave monitoring instrument - 1 meter bar
- 50 meter transect lines (2) - SMAT1 and SMAT2
Data collection/products:
- Thaw depths every 0.5 m for August 2000; June, July, August 2001
- Thaw depth map
- Aerial photos of site, grid, and transect lines
- Vegetation, microsite, and frost boil maps
- Vegetation releves associated with frost boils
- Soil profiles characterized and samples collected for laboratory analysis
Equipment list
- Air Temperature (3m) - using Hinzman tower data
- Soil Moisture @ 0.11, 0.23, and 0.32 m depths - 2000
- Soil Temperature @ surface, 0.036, 0.111, 0.187, 0.264, 0.339, 0.415, 0.492, 0.566, 0.72, 0.872, 1.079 m depths - 2000
- Snow Sensor - coming
- Wind Speed - coming
- Grid 10x10m - 8/2000
- Transect Lines (2) = SagMAT1, SagMAT2 - 6/2000
- Heaveometer (1) - 8/2000