Data · dataset
Kaipokok Bay Weather Station (Postville, Nunatsiavut)
Listed in Smart Atlantic
A 1.8-m tall weather mast is installed on the landfast ice in Kaipokok Bay, near Postville, between Woody Island and Pugaviks Island (54.96061 N, 59.67184 W).
Description
The Kaipokok Bay weather station is part of a sea ice monitoring project led by Dr. Eric Oliver and May Wang at Dalhousie University in partnership with the Nunatsiavut Government and the community of Postville.
It was established in January 2024 and is active only during the ice season (approx. mid-January to mid-April). The goal of the project is to study long-term changes to the sea ice, ocean and weather, with a specific focus on how heat is transferred to and from the ice. Funding for this project was received from the Crown-Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (Government of Canada) through the Marine Conservation Targets Grant.
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Other measurements (and instruments) recorded at the ice monitoring site include:
- Snow and ice temperature (Sea Ice Mass Balance Apparatus (SIMBA))
- Ocean currents (Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs))
- Ocean temperature and salinity (Conductivity Temperature Depth loggers (CTDs))
- Ice salinity
- Snow density
Links
Where it is published
- ERDDAP dataset info smartatlantic.ca/erddap/info/postville_seasonal_ice_station/index.html ↗
landing page · from smartatlantic ca
Documentation and papers
- Dataset documentation smartatlantic.ca/station_alt.html?id=dal_postville_ice ↗
documentation · from smartatlantic ca
Catalogue records · 1
- ERDDAP tabledap access form smartatlantic.ca/erddap/tabledap/postville_seasonal_ice_station.html ↗
metadata API · from smartatlantic ca
Topics
- From keywords
- Ocean & Atmospheric Science
Provenance · 1 source records, 6 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smart Atlantic | postville_seasonal_ice_station | 11 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · smartatlantic ca | connector:smartatlantic_ca@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · smartatlantic ca | connector:smartatlantic_ca@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · smartatlantic ca | connector:smartatlantic_ca@1.0.0 | /summary |
| spatial | source · smartatlantic ca | connector:smartatlantic_ca@1.0.0 | |
| temporal | source · smartatlantic ca | connector:smartatlantic_ca@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · smartatlantic ca | connector:smartatlantic_ca@1.0.0 | /title |