West Dock
Description - Data - Site Map - Photos
Site Description:
Location:
Prudhoe Bay oil field
N 70 22' 30.2", W 148 32' 57.8"
Elevation:
1.5 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) - WD1 and WD2
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
- Soil profiles characterized and samples collected for laboratory analysis
Equipment list
- Air Temperature (2m) - 1986
- Soil Moisture @ 0.08, 0.23, 0.3 depths - 1998
- Soil Temperature @ surface, -0.16, -0.09, -0.01, 0.06, 0.14, 0.22, 0.30, 0.37, 0.52, 0.67, 0.83 depths (m) depths - 1986
- Snow Sensor - coming
- Wind Speed - coming
- Grid 10x10 m - 8/2000
- Transect Lines (2) = WD1, WD2 - 6/2000
- Heaveometer (1) - 8/2000