Special issue  

The Changing Cold Regions Network (CCRN) aims to understand, diagnose, and predict interactions amongst the cryospheric, ecological, hydrological, and climatic components of the changing Earth system at multiple scales with a geographic focus on Western Canada's rapidly changing cold interior. Across this region CCRN members operate a set of long-term water, ecosystem, cryosphere, and climate (WECC) observatories with data sets often spanning several decades. With this ESSD special issue, the Canadian network promotes the establishment, long-term maintenance, validation, description, accessibility, and distribution of high-quality cold-region data sets through a coordinated publication effort.

The special issue is open to all submissions within its scope and welcomes related observational and model data sets from cold-region observatories around the world.