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Hydrometeorological data from Marmot Creek Research Basin, Canadian Rockies

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dc.contributor.authorFang, Xing
dc.contributor.authorPomeroy, John
dc.contributor.authorDeBeer, Chris
dc.contributor.authorHarder, Philip
dc.contributor.authorSiemens, Evan
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-04T22:02:22Z
dc.date.available2023-05-04T22:02:22Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. *The requested paper has a corresponding corrigendum published. Please read the corrigendum first before downloading the article.en_US
dc.description.abstractMeteorological, snow survey, streamflow, and groundwater data are presented from Marmot Creek Research Basin, Alberta, Canada. The basin is a 9.4 km2, alpine–montane forest headwater catchment of the Saskatchewan River basin that provides vital water supplies to the Prairie Provinces of Canada. It was heavily instrumented, experimented upon, and operated by several federal government agencies between 1962 and 1986, during which time its main and sub-basin streams were gauged, automated meteorological stations at multiple elevations were installed, groundwater observation wells were dug and automated, and frequent manual measurements of snow accumulation and ablation and other weather and water variables were made. Over this period, mature evergreen forests were harvested in two sub-basins, leaving large clear cuts in one basin and a “honeycomb” of small forest clearings in another basin. Whilst meteorological measurements and sub-basin streamflow discharge weirs in the basin were removed in the late 1980s, the federal government maintained the outlet streamflow discharge measurements and a nearby high-elevation meteorological station, and the Alberta provincial government maintained observation wells and a nearby fire weather station. Marmot Creek Research Basin was intensively re-instrumented with 12 automated meteorological stations, four sub-basin hydrometric sites, and seven snow survey transects starting in 2004 by the University of Saskatchewan Centre for Hydrology. The observations provide detailed information on meteorology, precipitation, soil moisture, snowpack, streamflow, and groundwater during the historical period from 1962 to 1987 and the modern period from 2005 to the present time. These data are ideal for monitoring climate change, developing hydrological process understanding, evaluating process algorithms and hydrological, cryospheric, or atmospheric models, and examining the response of basin hydrological cycling to changes in climate, extreme weather, and land cover through hydrological modelling and statistical analyses. The data presented are publicly available from Federated Research Data Repository (https://doi.org/10.20383/101.09, Fang et al., 2018).en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipAlberta government departments Environment and Parks, and Agriculture and Forestry, the IP3 Cold Regions Hydrology Network of the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada through Discovery Grants, Research Tools and Instrument Grants, Alexander Graham Bell Scholarships, and the Changing Cold Regions Network, the Global Institute for Water Security, Global Water Futures and the Canada Research Chairs programmeen_US
dc.description.versionPeer Revieweden_US
dc.identifier.citationFang, X., Pomeroy, J. W., DeBeer, C. M., Harder, P., and Siemens, E.: Hydrometeorological data from Marmot Creek Research Basin, Canadian Rockies, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 455–471, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-455-2019, 2019.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.5194/essd-11-455-2019, 2019
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10388/15149
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCopernicus Publicationsen_US
dc.rightsAttribution 2.5 Canada*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectsnow surveyen_US
dc.subjecthydrometeorological dataen_US
dc.subjectMarmot Creek Research Basinen_US
dc.subjectsub-basin hydrometric sitesen_US
dc.subjectsub-basin streamflow discharge weirsen_US
dc.titleHydrometeorological data from Marmot Creek Research Basin, Canadian Rockiesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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