Lead Investigator: Scott Munro (e-mail: www)
Peyto Creek drains a 24 km² basin in Banff National Park, forming part of the
headwaters of the North Saskatchewan River, to which it connects through the
Mistaya River. It is 60% covered by the Peyto Glacier which has been the subject
of intensive mass balance, energy balance and runoff observations since the
basin’s adoption as an International Hydrological Decade (IHD) research site in
1965. The basin has an automatic weather station adjacent to the glacier, a
glacier mass balance field programme that is part of the National Glaciology
Programme of NRCan and a streamflow gauge. Among the data assets are hourly
measurements of solar radiation, air temperature, humidity, wind speed and
precipitation, winter and summer mass balance measurements, streamflow records
and glacier surface meteorology records.