Site specific metadata:
Name of site: National Permafrost Monitoring Network
Latitude/Longitude/Altitude:
Landscape type (e.g. arctic coastal, tundra, alpine…):
Onsite technical staff:
All-year round observations y/n:
Link to website if available:
Year established:
Station manager (Email): Point of contact – Sharon Smith, Natural Resources Canada
(Sharon.Smith@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca]
Organisation in charge of station:
Other information
Monitoring of the atmosphere:
Solid precipitation:
Trace gases:
Aerosols
UV, stratospheric ozone
Radiation (longwave, shortwave)
Others:
Snow cover
Physical parameters:
Chemical parameters:
Others:
Glaciers and ice caps
Mass balance (measured parameters):
Snowfall:

Ice flow (measured parameters):
Basal water pressure (measured parameters):
Others:
Sea ice
Mass balance (measured parameters):
Meteorology: radiation, air temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, air pressure (measured parameters):
Snow on ice (measured parameters):
Ice chemistry (measured parameters):
Others:
Permafrost
Note that measurements are made at over 100 field sites throughout northern Canada. See attached map, and Smith et al., 2010 ( http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/cpc/CPC6-1214.pdf
).
Borehole measurements (measured parameters): Ground temperature measured normally in the upper
20 m (deeper for some sites)
Meteorology: radiation, air temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, air pressure (measured parameters): Air temperature measured at some borehole sites
Snow on ground (measured parameters): Snow depth measured at some borehole sites
Active layer thickness (measured parameters): Maximum summer thaw depth measured with thaw tubes or determined from shallow temperature measurements, position of ground surface
GST: Near-surface ground temperature measured at some sites
Others:
Ice sheet
Mass balance (measured parameters):
Meteorology: radiation, air temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, air pressure (measured parameters):

Snow on ice (measured parameters):
Ice chemistry (measured parameters):
Others:
Other measurements (hydrological, ecological, oceanographic, etc)
Hydrology (measured parameters):
Ecology (measured parameters)
Oceanography (measured parameters):
Other thematic linkages:
Linkages to satellite data (describe validation programs, applications of satellite data, etc.)
No formal linkages.
Some published data have been utilized for validation e.g. Permafrost DUE
Participation in international monitoring programmes such as GAW, GTN-G, GTN-P, ….
Networks and start of contribution: Contribution to GTN-P since 1999

Permafrost monitoring network in Canada (from Sharon Smith, Natural Resources Canada)