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9780773509283

The Surface Climates of Canada

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  • ISBN13:

    9780773509283

  • ISBN10:

    0773509283

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1998-01-01
  • Publisher: McGill Queens Univ
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Summary

In the opening chapters contributors lay out the large-scale context of the physical climate of Canada, introducing the processes, balances, and dynamic linkages between the surface and atmosphere that create and maintain the diversity of surface climates found in Canada as well as outlining the nature of the physical processes that operate near the ground's surface. Individual chapters are dedicated to snow and ice - the almost universal surface cover in Canada - and the other major natural surface environments of Canada: ocean and coastal zones, fresh water lakes, wetlands, arctic islands, low arctic and subarctic lands, forests, and alpine environments. The final part of the book considers those surface environments that have been strongly influenced by human activity, such as agricultural lands and urban environments, and examines the prospects for future climate change. Bringing together for the first time a wide range of scholarship by leading climatologists, The Surface Climates of Canada will be an indispensable tool for understanding Canada's surface climates and the processes responsible for their creation and control. Contributors include Brian D. Amiro (AECL), W.G. Bailey (Simon Fraser), Richard Bello (York), Terry J. Gillespie (Guelph), Barry E. Goodison (Atmospheric Environment Service), F. Kenneth Hare (emeritus professor, Toronto), L.D. Danny Harvey (Toronto), Owen Hertzman (Dalhousie), Peter M. Lafleur (Trent), J. Harry McCaughey (Queen's), Linda Mortsch (Environment Canada), R. Ted Munn (Toronto), D. Scott Munro (Toronto), Atsumu Ohmura (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Timothy R. Oke (UBC), John W. Pomeroy (Environment Canada), Alexander W. Robertson (Canadian Forest Service), Nigel T. Roulet (McGill), Wayne R. Rouse (McMaster), Ian R. Saunders (Simon Fraser), William M. Schertzer (Environment Canada), Hans-Peter Schmid (Indiana), David L. Spittlehouse (BC Ministry of Forests), Douw G. Steyn (UBC), John L. Walmsley (Atmospheric Environment Service), John D. Wilson (Alberta), Ming-Ko Woo (McMaster).

Table of Contents

Tables
ix(2)
Figures
xi(6)
Symbols, Units, and Quantities
xvii(4)
Preface xxi
PART ONE SURFACE CLIMATE CONCEPTS 3(98)
1 Canada's Climate: An Overall Perspective
3(18)
F. Kenneth Hare
2 Surface Climate Processes
21(23)
Timothy R. Oke
3 Spatial Variability in Surface Climates
44(24)
Douw G. Steyn
Hans-Peter Schmid
John L. Walmsley
John D. Wilson
4 Winter and Snow
68(33)
John W. Pomeroy
Barry E. Goodison
PART TWO NATURAL SURFACE CLIMATES 101(176)
5 Oceans and the Coastal Zone
101(23)
Owen Hertzman
6 Freshwater Lakes
124(25)
William M. Schertzer
7 Wetlands
149(23)
Nigel T. Roulet
D. Scott Munro
Linda Mortsch
8 The Arctic Islands
172(26)
Ming-Ko Woo
Atsumu Ohmura
9 The Low Arctic and Subarctic
198(24)
Wayne R. Rouse
Richard L. Bello
Peter M. Lafleur
10 Alpine Environments
222(25)
Ian R. Saunders
D. Scott Munro
W. G. Bailey
11 Forest Environments
247(30)
J. Harry McCaughey
Brian D. Amiro
Alexander W. Robertson
David L. Spittlehouse
PART THREE MANAGED AND CHANGING SURFACE CLIMATES 277(82)
12 Agricultural Surfaces
277(26)
Terry J. Gillespie
13 Urban Environments
303(25)
Timothy R. Oke
14 Climatic Change
328(24)
L. D. Danny Harvey
15 Epilogue
352(7)
R. Ted Munn
Glossary 359(6)
Contributors 365(2)
Index 367

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