Frasedale

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Station Characteristics Name : Frasedale Country : CANADA GAW Category : Platform : Ground base Location : 49.88ºN   81.57ºW   210m a.m.s.l. Time Zone : Address : Organization : Environment Canada Description : In December 1989, a Baseline Air Chemistry Observatory was established at Fraserdale, Canada.The objective of the Fraserdale program is to measure the annual and seasonal variations of CO2 and CH4 in the northern wetlands and boreal forest ecosystems, from which estimates of the uptake of carbon by the boreal forest and the release of CH4 from the wetlands may be made. Due to financial constraints, the observatory was closed In December 1996, but was reopened in June 1998, when funding was reinstated. The Fraserdale observatory is located on the southern perimeter of the Hudson Bay Lowland and on the northern edge of the boreal forest at 49°53'N, 81°34'W at an elevation of 210m above sea level. The observatory is situated in a small clearing of approximately 1 km2 at the edge of a reservoir formed by a hydroelectric generating dam on the Abitibi River at the head of the Abitibi canyon. The station is located within a region that has extensive wetland coverage. The terrain in the surrounding area is slightly rolling with extensive areas of impeded drainage. It contains a mixture of black and white spruce, balsam fir, white birch, maple and trembling aspen