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Eureka, Canada PDF Print E-mail

 

Arctic map showing location of Eureka

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Eureka

 

Location: 80.050 N, 86.417 W, 10 m asl (32.8 ft asl)

 

Governing Institution:  Canadian Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Change (CANDAC)

 

Station Director:  Pierre Fogal  (Pierre.Fogal@utoronto.ca)

 

CANDAC Partners: These institutions provide instrumentation and expertise in the analysis of Arctic tropospheric and upper atmospheric measurements.

                            University of Toronto  (Canada)

                                   Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) (Canada)

                                   Dalhousie University (Canada)

                                   University of Brunswick (Canada)

                                   University of Sherbrooke (Canada)

                                   University of Waterloo (Canada)

                                   University of Western Ontario  (Canada)

                                   York University (Canada)

                                   National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (U.S)

                                   University of Wisconsin (U.S)

 

Main web site:  http://candac.ca/candac/index.php 

 

 

CANDAC Facilities: The Eureka Observatory consists of three facilities:

 

                            PEARL - 15km from the Eureka Observatory

                            OPAL - located at the northwest quadrant of the observatory

                            SAFIRE - 5km from the observatory

 

Site News: The NOAA SEARCH team visited Eureka July 3rd-July 10th, 2009.  Visit the Eureka Travel Blog for information about the trip. 

 

Topography: Eureka is located on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, the northernmost of Canada's three territories (Nunavut, Northwest Territories, and Yukon).  The first inhabitants of Ellesmere Island were the Inuits who arrived 4,000 years ago.  Since its founding in 1947 with the installation of a weather station, Eureka has served primarily as a research base.  Research staff inhabit Eureka year round with the population increasing during the summer and dwindling to 10 or less during the winters.  The only other permanent Arctic research site farther north is Alert.  At 80N, Eureka is well north of the treeline where the main biome is tundra.  Arctic mammals such as the polar bear, arctic fox, caribou, muskox, narwhale, and walrus frequent Ellesmere Island and its surrounding waters.  Geological features in the area include glaciers, low mountains, and the ocean.  The Quttinirpaaq National Park is located to the north of Eureka and encompasses 1/5 of the island's surface area.  

 

 

Click for Eureka, Nunavut Forecast

 

 

Table of Measurements

 

Station Identifier: 71917

Station Abbreviations: WEU, EUK, and STN315  

Eureka Global Atmosphere Watch - Station Information System (GAWSIS) 

 

 

Measurement/Instruments 

Time Period 

 

PIs/Organization 

OPAL

   

High-spectral resolution lidar

 

E. Eloranta (Univ. of Wisconsin)

Millimeter wave cloud radar   

D. Hudak (Env. Canada)  

Parsivel optical disdrometer   

D. Hudak (Env. Canada)  

Polar atmospheric emitted radiance interferometer    K. Strong (Univ. of Toronto) 
Precipitation occurrence sensor system   

D. Hudak (Env. Canada)

Rayleigh/Mie/Raman lidar   

T. Duck (Dalhousie Univ.)  

SkiYMET VHF meteor wind and temperature radar   

A. Manson (Univ. of Saskatchewan)

Star photometer    N. O'Neill (Univ. of Sherbrooke) 
Vaisala visibility and present weather sensor    D. Hudak (Env. Canada) 
Tropospheric ozone lidar   

J. Whiteway (York Univ.)  

PEARL

   
Aerosol (Aerosol mass spectrometer, Cimel sun photometer #401, Cimel sun photometer #327)   

J. Sloan (Univ. of Waterloo)

Sky cover (All sky imager)   

W. Ward (Univ. of New Brunswick)

Chemistry  (Bomem Fourier transfrom infrared spectrometer, Bruker Fourier transform IR spectrometer)  

H. Fast (MSC)

K. Strong (Univ. of Toronto)

Ozone (Brewer spectrophotometer)  

T. McElroy (AES)

UV Radiation (Brewer spectrophotometer)     
Radiance (Cimel sun photometer #401, Cimel sun photometer #327)  

N. O'Neill (Univ. of Sherbrooke)

Precipitable water (Cimel sun photometer #327)    
E-Region wind interferometer   

W. Ward (Univ. of New Brunswick)

Spectral airglow temperature imager   

M. Shepherd (York Univ.)

Stratospheric ozone lidar   

R. Sica (Univ. of Western Ontario)

UV-visible grating spectrometer   

K. Strong (Univ. of Toronto)

Meteorology - surface (Weather station)  

P. Fogal (Univ. of Toronto)

SAFIRE 

   
Wind and turbulence tracker VHF radar    S. Argall (Univ. of Western Ontario) 
Flux tower   

T. Uttal (NOAA)  

Energy balance (Baseline surface radiation measurements)   B. McArthur (Env. Canada) 

Information for this table obtained from http://candac.ca/candac/Instruments/instrumentsinventory.php?type=Inventory

 

Data archives:

NOAA SEARCH data

University of Wisconsin HSRL data (plus MMCR, PAERI, MWR, and Radiosonde data)

Derived cloud parameters from AERI, MMCR, and HSRL data at Eureka (August 2005 - present)

 

Informational links: 

WMO's Global Atmosphere Watch Station Information System (GAWSIS) for Eureka

Canadian Arctic ACE Validation Campaign at Eureka

Current weather at the PEARL weather station

Current weather at the Environment Canada station

Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Observatory

Canadian Ozone and Ultraviolet Measurement Program

 

Eureka in the News:

"Winter Habits of Northern Wolves Revealed"

"A Day in the life of Eureka"

"Voyage to the top of the Earth (Almost)"

"The Loneliest Science Lab in the Arctic"

 

See the Eureka station on YouTube

 

All information on this page was gathered from the web sites listed above.  We welcome your comments - if you have any additions or corrections that apply to this page, please forward them to lisa.darby@noaa.gov.

 

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