Annual Thaw Depths in Illisarvik, Northwest Territories, Version 1

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Thaw-depth data were collected annually in August from 21 August 1979 to 18 August 1999, from 400-m, 600-m, and tundra transects at Illisarvik lake, Richards Island, Northwest Territories, Canada. Coordinates are 69 deg 30 min N, 134 deg 32 min W. Data are in tab-delimited ASCII text format, and are available via FTP.

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bureauCode	[ "026:00" ]
identifier	10.7265/zvzx-wr28
landingPage	https://nsidc.org/forms/GGD642_or.html?major_version=1
programCode	[ "026:000" ]
spatial	["CARTESIAN",[{"WestBoundingCoordinate":134.5333,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":69.5,"EastBoundingCoordinate":134.5333,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":69.5}]]
temporal	1979-08-21/1979-08-21
theme	[ "Earth Science" ]

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