Dataset specification
- Title: BioBasis Zackenberg - Abiotics - Snow and ice cover
- Description: Snow and ice cover Abiotics:Abiotics BioBasis Zackenberg:The BioBasis programme monitors the dynamics of organisms and biological processes in the terrestrial and limnic ecosystems at Zackenberg and Nuuk. The BioBasis programme plays a central role in the development and implementation of the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Programme (CBMP) http://www.caff.is/monitoring across the Arctic.
- DOI: 10.17897/BKEX-JR94 - https://doi.org/10.17897/BKEX-JR94
- Location/site: Permanent plots - -20.57, 74.47 (lon-lat wgs84)
- Date span of the dataset: 1995-07-15 - 2018-08-08
Data originator, license and how to download the dataset
The dataset is a product of the Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring program (GEM): https://grid.ac/institutes/grid.507580.f. It is free and open data, licensed with terms of use under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ When downloading you will automatically get a terms of use document, describing how to cite the data and other important information.
Download the dataset via this link (registration needed): http://data.g-e-m.dk/log-in/data-tables?doi=10.17897/BKEX-JR94
Variables measured / columns in dataset
ID | Name | Unit | Data Type | Description |
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http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/BKEX-JR94&column=Date | Date | YYYY-MM-DD | Date | Date of census |
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/BKEX-JR94&column=Plot | Plot | Text | Text | Plot ID |
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/BKEX-JR94&column=Section | Section | Text | Text | Section ID |
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/BKEX-JR94&column=SnowCoverFraction | SnowCoverFraction | Number | Number | Snow or ice cover in percent (%). |
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/BKEX-JR94&column=Field_remarks | Field_remarks | Text | Text | Remarks from the field observer |
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/BKEX-JR94&column=General_remarks | General_remarks | Text | Text | General remarks |
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/BKEX-JR94&column=Observer | Observer | Text | Text | Name of field observer(s) |