Surface Water Elevation and Quality, Peace-Athabasca Delta, Canada, 2006-2007

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The Peace-Athabasca Delta (PAD) is a large boreal wetland located in northeastern Alberta, Canada at the confluence of the Peace and Athabasca Rivers with Lake Athabasca (Figures 1 and 2). A Ramsar Convention wetland and UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is among the world's most ecologically significant wetlands. This data set contains four comma-delimited ASCII files, two of which contain water surface elevation site and measurement information and two contain water quality and ancillary parameter location and measurement data for 120 sites within the PAD.Data archived include water surface elevation and water quality parameters measured at points throughout the Delta during summers 2006 and 2007. These data sets were originally collected to improve understanding of hydrologic recharge processes in low-relief environments and to provide ground-based measurements to validate satellite observations of inundation and sediment transport. All work was supported by the NASA Terrestrial Hydrology Program under grant NNG06GE05G to the Department of Geography, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.

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Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F935
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/global_hydroclimatology/PAD/
21 ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation https://daac.ornl.gov/HYDROCLIMATOLOGY/guides/PAD.html
33 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_hydroclimatology/PAD/comp/Environment_Canada_PAD_Ramsar_Site.pdf
21 Data set Landing Page DOI URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/935
33 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_hydroclimatology/PAD/comp/CGGM2000.pdf
33 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_hydroclimatology/PAD/comp/PAD.pdf
34 Browse Image https://daac.ornl.gov/graphics/browse/project/square/hydroclimatology_logo_square.png

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  • surface-water
  • water-quality-water-chemistry
  • atmosphere
  • terrestrial-hydrosphere
  • atmospheric-winds
  • earth-science

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