Changing cold environments : a Canadian perspective

9780470699683

xviii, 321 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

PART ONE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF CANADA'S COLD ENVIRONMENTS
1. Cold Canada and the Changing Cryosphere / Hugh French and Olav Slaymaker
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Cryosphere
1.3 Cold Canada
1.4 Cold Climates
1.5 Arctic and Alpine Considerations
1.6 Canada's Physical Geography
2. The Late Quaternary Glaciation of Northern Canada / David Evans
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Landforms and the Late Quaternary Glaciations
2.3 Late Quaternary Sea level Change and its Relationship to Glaciation History
2.4 Late Quaternary Glaciation and Deglacial History
2.5 Wider Implications of Canadian Arctic Ice Sheet Dynamics
2.6 Holocene Glacial Events
3. The Evolution of Polar Desert and Tundra Ecosystems / Konrad Gajewski
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Nature of the Environment
3.3 Ecology of Arctic Plants
3.4 Vegetation Zonation
3.5 Arctic Oases
3.6 Long term Evolution of Canadian Arctic Ecosystems
3.7 The Quaternary
3.8 Postglacial Climate and Vegetation Change in Arctic Canada
4. Remote Sensing and Canadian Snow Climatology / Richard Kelly
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The Importance of Snow in the Earth System
4.3 Snow Measurements in Canada
4.4 Remote Sensing of Snow
4.5 Snow Variations Inferred from Remote Sensing Observations
PART TWO THE CHANGING CRYOSPHERE
5 The Changing Climates / Roger Barry and Mark Serreze
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Late Pliocene
5.3 Quaternary History
5.4 Postglacial Conditions
5.5 The Last Two Millennia
5.6 Recent Changes
5.7 The Future
6. Snow and Runoff: Processes, Sensitivity and Vulnerability / Ming-Ko Woo and John Pomeroy
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Snow Accumulation
6.3 Land Cover
6.4 Snow Ablation
6.5 Snowmelt Runoff Processes
6.6 Streamflow
6.7 Snowmelt Floods in Large Basins
6.8 Snow Vulnerability
7. Permafrost Distribution and Stability / Chris Burn
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Distribution of Permafrost
7.3 Thermal Regime of Permafrost
7.4 Permafrost and Climate Change
8. Sea Ice in Canada / David Barber and Jennifer Lukovich
8.1 Introduction
8.2 What is Sea Ice?
8.3 The Physical Nature of Sea Ice
8.4 Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Sea Ice
8.5 Sea Ice and Climate Change
8.6 Implications for Northern Communities, Economic Development and the Environment
9 Lake and River Ice in Canada / Terry Prowse
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Role in the Climate System
9.3 Climatic Controls
9.4 Historical Trends and Linkages to Climate
9.5 Future Ice Regime Projections
9.6 Implications of Ice Regime Changes
PART THREE THE EVER-CHANGING SCENERY
10. Climate Change and the Central Canadian Treeline / Glen MacDonald
10.1 Introduction
10.2 The Central Canadian Treeline Zone Today
10.3 Current Warming at the Central Canadian Treeline
10.4 Response of the Central Canadian Treeline to Warming Temperatures
11. Geomorphic Change in Northern Canada / Hugh French
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Lessons from the Past
11.3 Freezing, Thawing and Bedrock Instability
11.4 Warming Permafrost
11.5 Changes in Azonal Processes
11.6 Geotechnical Implications of Warming Permafrost
12. Geomorphic Change in Canada's Temperate Mountains / Olav Slaymaker
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Present Morphology
12.3 Spatial Variability of Ecology and Morphology
12.4 Hydroclimate and Cryospheric Phenomena
12.5 Rates and Kinds of Geomorphic Processes
12.6 Disturbances Regimes and Landscape Transitions
13. Risk from Cold-climate Hazards in the Canadian Cordillera / Jim Gardner
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Cold-climate Hazards
13.3 Risk and Climate Variability
14. Societal Aspects of Changing Cold Environments / Gita Laidler
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Cultural Pursuits and Indigenous Rights
14.3 Local and Broader Implications of Changing Sea Ice
14.4 Northern Governance
15. The Changing Canadian Cryosphere, Globalization and Global Environmental Change / Olav Slaymaker and Hugh French
15.1 Introduction
15.2 The Question of Scale
15.3 Adaptive Management
15.4 Globalization

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Slaymaker, Olav, 1939-