Cariboo Alpine Mesonet (CAMnet) Database

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Overview Research Site Status and Provenance Access and Downloads

Section 1: Overview

Name of Research Project

Related Project	Part
GWF-MWF: Mountain Water Futures

Program Affiliations

No entries

Related Research Project(s)

Related Project	Part
GWF-MWF: Mountain Water Futures

Dataset Title

Cariboo Alpine Mesonet (CAMnet) Database

Additional Information

Creators and Contributors

Name	Role	Email	Institution
Stephen Déry	PI	sdery@unbc.ca	University of Northern British Columbia

Abstract

The Cariboo Alpine Mesonet (CAMnet) is currently a network of 11 meteorological stations installed at mid to high elevation sites within the Quesnel, Nechako and Kiskatinaw watersheds. This database includes data for all de-commissioned and currently active stations within this network.

Purpose

Plain Language Summary

Keywords

Keyword
hydrometeorology
Cariboo Mountains

Citations

Déry, S. J. (2017). Cariboo Alpine Mesonet (CAMnet) Database [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1195042.

Hernández-Henríquez, M. A., Sharma, A. R., Taylor, M., Thompson, H. D., Déry, S. J. (2018). The Cariboo Alpine Mesonet: sub-hourly hydrometeorological observations of British Columbia's Cariboo Mountains and surrounding area since 2006. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 1655-1672. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1655-2018.

Section 3: Status and Provenance

Dataset Version

Dataset Creation Date

2017-08-01

Status of data collection/production

○ Planned

○ In Progress

○ Abandoned

◉ Complete

Dataset Completion or Abandonment Date

2017-08-01

Data Update Frequency

○ Continually

○ Daily

○ Weekly

○ Biweekly

○ Monthly

○ Anually

○ As needed

○ Irregular

○ None planned

○ Unknown

Creation Software

Software	Version	File Formats
Microsoft Excel		.xlsx
Microsoft Word		.docx

Primary Source of Data

◻ Unknown/Unspecified

◻ Census

◻ Field collected samples

◻ Field experiment

◻ Field observation

◻ Field survey

◻ Human biological samples

◻ Lab experiment

◻ Model simulation

◻ Previously collected

◻ Qualitative (from observations or interviews)

◻ Social survey

◻ Traditional knowledge

◻ Other Source of Data (Please specify in field below)

Other Source of Data (if applicable)

Data Lineage (if applicable). Please include versions (e.g., input and forcing data, models, and coupling modules; instrument measurements; surveys; sample collections; etc.)

Section 4: Access and Downloads

Access to the Dataset

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Does the data have access restrictions?

▣ No restriction (data is currently open to public)

◻ Limited (data is currently under embargo until publication)

◻ Limited (data involves intellectual property issues related to local or traditional knowledge)

◻ Limited (release of data may cause harm to the environment or to the public)

◻ Limited (pre-existing data has been used and is subject to access restrictions)

◻ Limited (data involves human subjects)

◻ Limited (data is supported by industry partnerships)

◻ Limited (data is supported by government partnerships)

Downloading and Characteristics of the Dataset

Download Links and Instructions

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1195042

Total Size of all Dataset Files (GB)

0.426

File formats and online databases

◻ Link to online database or web services (e.g., WISKI, ECCC)

◻ Archive files (.zip, .rar, .7z, .tar, .tgz, .tar.gz, etc.)

◻ CSV files (.csv - comma or tab separated value files)

▣ Excel document files (.xlsx, .xls)

◻ Image files (e.g., .tiff, .jpeg, .png, .gif, etc.)

◻ NetCDF files (.netcdf, .nc)

◻ Text files (.txt)

◻ Word document files (.docx, .doc)

◻ Other (Please specify in field below)

Other Data Formats (if applicable)

List of Parameters and Variables

Parameter/Variable	Unit	Frequency	Source

Begin Date	End Date
2006-06-30	2017-12-31

West Boundary Longitude	-123
East Boundary Longitude	-119
North Boundary Latitude	54
South Boundary Latitude	51.5