Vital Signs: Environment
 Mountain Ridge, Denali Since several agencies outside the National Park Service already monitor various physical processes (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, etc.), the CAKN will use this existing data and augment any gaps with Network monitoring. |
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Vital Sign |
Where |
Details |
| Air Quality | DENA | Monitor ozone, pollutant compounds in wet & dry deposition (fallout), particulates affecting visibility |
| Climate | Network wide | Track temperature, precipitation & relative humidity |
| Fire | Network wide | Track long-term trend of fire frequency, average fire size, average burn severity, total area affected by fire |
| Flooding | Network wide | Track frequency & discharge |
| Glaciers | DENA, WRST | Photo points of specified glaciers, benchmark measurement of glacier |
| Land Cover | Network wide | Track changes in area of each land cover type |
| Permafrost | Network wide | Distribution of thermokarst & permafrost terrain features on aerial photos, take borehole temperatures |
| River/Stream Flow | Network wide | Track flow rates |
| Snow Pack | Network wide | Track annual deposition |
| Soundscape | Network wide | Measure decibel levels |
| Tectonics & Volcanoes | Network wide | Track seismic activity |
| Water Quality | Network wide | Water chemistry, water level of shallow lakes, submerged vegetation, macroinvertebrates |