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CA-Man: Manitoba - Northern Old Black Spruce (former BOREAS Northern Study Area)

Tower_team:
PI: Brian Amiro Brian_Amiro@umanitoba.ca - University of Manitoba
AncContact: Steve Wofsy swofsy@seas.harvard.edu - Harvard University
Lat, Long: 55.8796, -98.4808
Elevation(m): 259
Network Affiliations: AmeriFlux, Fluxnet-Canada
Vegetation IGBP: ENF (Evergreen Needleleaf Forests: Lands dominated by woody vegetation with a percent cover >60% and height exceeding 2 meters. Almost all trees remain green all year. Canopy is never without green foliage.)
Climate Koeppen: Dfc (Subarctic: severe winter, no dry season, cool summer)
Mean Annual Temp (°C): -3.2
Mean Annual Precip. (mm): 520
Flux Species Measured: CO2
Years Data Collected: 1994 - 2008
Years Data Available:

AmeriFlux BASE 1994 - 2008   Data Citation

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Description:
55.880° N, 98.481° W, elevation of 259 m, Boreal coniferous: Black spruce; occasional larch present in poorly-drained areas. Groundcover is moss (feathermosses ...
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URL: http://daac.ornl.gov/BOREAS/bhs/Sites/NSA-OBS.html
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Acknowledgment: The data collection was funded by many sources, including: the DOE Terrestrial Carbon Program, NASA Terrestrial Ecosystem Program, the Fluxnet Canada Research Network and the Canadian Carbon Program (supported by the Canadian National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences and the BIOCAP Canada Foundation).
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