Snow and Wet Precipitation, Oil Sands Region
Assess the importance of atmospheric deposition of contaminants as a contributor to ecological impacts of oil sands development and identify sources.
• Use snowpack measurements sampled across a gridwork to develop maps of winter-time atmospheric contaminant loadings for the region ~100 km from the major upgrading facilities
• Assess long-term trends in winter-time atmospheric deposition
• Determine the potential impact of wintertime snowpack mercury loads on tributary river water mercury concentrations (Spring Freshet) using Geographic Information System and hydrological modelling approaches
• Compare snowpack loadings to those obtained from precipitation monitoring and compare spatial patterns to PAC air measurements obtained from passive sampling network
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Metadata Record Information
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- 43c0ce65-99cc-43c8-96a1-30c5b63bfe3b XML
- Date Stamp
- 2021-12-10T17:26:00
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eng; CAN
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- UTF8
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- Series
http://ec.gc.ca
Data identification
- Date (Publication)
- 2015-07-08
- Date (Creation)
- 2015-05-12
- Status
- On going
- Metadata language
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eng; CAN
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- As needed
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
Keywords
- Theme
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oil sands, monitoring, atmospheric deposition, contaminant, fate and transport, monitoring, polycyclic aromatic compound, particulate metals, snow, Athabasca, river, basin, near-field, far-field, Fort McMurray
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Observation/Measurement
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Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
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Precipitation
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Oil sands
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Snow
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ECCC Information Category EN
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Water - Quality
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Business Functions
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Assess Toxicity, Manage and Monitor for Environmental Presence of Hazardous Substances and Waste
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Monitor / Assess Substance and Waste Levels in Air, Water, Soil, Biota
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Geography
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Prairie - Alberta (AB)
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Prairie - Saskatchewan (SK)
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Territories - Northwest Territories (NT)
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external.theme.EC_Branch
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Science and Technology Branch
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external.theme.EC_Directorate
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Water Science and Technology
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external.theme.EC_Program_PAA
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1.3.2. Ecosystem Assessment and Approaches
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external.theme.GC_Security_Level
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Unclassified
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- Use Limitation
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Open Government Licence - Canada ( http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada )
- Access Constraints
- License
- Use Constraints
- License
- Begin Date
- 2012-01-02
Extent
Ref. system Reference Systems
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / EPSG:4326 /
Distribution
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