Surface Water Elevation and Quality, Peace-Athabasca Delta, Canada, 2006-2007

The Peace-Athabasca Delta (PAD) is a large boreal wetland located in northeastern Alberta, Canada at the confluence of the Peace and Athabasca Rivers with Lake Athabasca (Figures 1 and 2). A Ramsar Convention wetland and UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is among the world's most ecologically significant wetlands. This data set contains four comma-delimited ASCII files, two of which contain water surface elevation site and measurement information and two contain water quality and ancillary parameter location and measurement data for 120 sites within the PAD.

Data archived include water surface elevation and water quality parameters measured at points throughout the Delta during summers 2006 and 2007. These data sets were originally collected to improve understanding of hydrologic recharge processes in low-relief environments and to provide ground-based measurements to validate satellite observations of inundation and sediment transport.

All work was supported by the NASA Terrestrial Hydrology Program under grant NNG06GE05G to the Department of Geography, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.

和平-阿萨巴斯卡三角洲（PAD）位于加拿大艾伯塔省东北部，是一片广袤的北方湿地，地处和平河与阿萨巴斯卡河交汇处，毗邻阿萨巴斯卡湖（见图1和图2）。作为《拉姆萨尔公约》湿地和联合国教科文组织世界遗产地，该湿地位列全球最具生态学意义的湿地之列。本数据集包含四个以逗号分隔的ASCII文件，其中两个文件包含水面高程的站点和测量信息，另外两个文件则包含和平-阿萨巴斯卡三角洲内120个站点的地表水质及相关参数的测量数据。所存档的数据包括在2006年和2007年夏季对整个三角洲范围内测点进行的水面高程和水质参数测量。这些数据集最初收集的目的是为了增进对低海拔地区水文补给过程的理解，并为地面测量提供依据，以验证卫星对洪水和泥沙运输的观测。所有研究工作均由美国国家航空航天局陆地水文学计划资助，资助项目编号为NNG06GE05G，并由加州大学洛杉矶分校地理系承担。