topic:"Climatology" found 10 records - Research Collections

An impending water crisis in Canada's western prairie provinces

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2006

Author: Schindler, D.W.; Donahue, W.F.

Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Call Number: 03.5 Sc1a PAM

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Author: Schindler, D.W.; Donahue, W.F.

Responsibility: D.W. Schindler; W.F. Donahue

Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Published Date: 2006

Physical Description: 6 pages ; illustrations , maps

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Water; Watersheds; Climate; Climate change; Climatology; Western Canada; Glaciers; Rivers; Lakes

Abstract: Canada is usually considered to be a country with abundant freshwater, but in its western prairie provinces (WPP), an area 1/5 the size of Europe, freshwater is scarce. European settlement of the WPP did not begin until the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Fortuitously, the period since European settlement appears to have been the wettest century of the past two millennia. The frequent, long periods of drought that characterized earlier centuries of the past two millennia were largely absent in the 20th century. Here, we show that climate warming and human modifications to catchments have already significantly reduced the flows of major rivers of the WPP during the summer months, when human demand and in-stream flow needs are greatest. We predict that in the near future climate warming, via its effects on glaciers, snowpacks, and evaporation, will combine with cyclic drought and rapidly increasing human activity in the WPP to cause a crisis in water quantity and quality with far-reaching implications.

Notes: In PNAS May 9, 2006 103 (19) 7210-7216

Call Number: 03.5 Sc1a PAM

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Available online via PNAS's website

Websites

https://www.pnas.org/content/103/19/7210

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Becoming water : glaciers in a warming world

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2012

Author: Demuth, Michael

Publisher: Victoria [B.C.] : RMB

Call Number: 03.4 D4b c.1; 03.4 D4b c.2

Author: Demuth, Michael

Responsibility: Michael Demuth

Publisher: Victoria [B.C.] : RMB

Published Date: 2012

Physical Description: ix, 135 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Climate; Climatology; Glaciers

Notes: Includes bibliographical references

ISBN: 9781926855721

Accession Number: P2015-03-31; tbd

Call Number: 03.4 D4b c.1; 03.4 D4b c.2

Collection: Archives Library

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Climate change and landscape in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2006

Author: Rutter, Nat; Coppold, Murray; Rokosh, Dean

Publisher: Field, B.C. : Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation

Edition: Revised Second Edition

Call Number: 03.2 R93c; 03.2 R93c Reference copy

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Author: Rutter, Nat; Coppold, Murray; Rokosh, Dean

Responsibility: The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation; Nat Rutter; Murray Coppold; Dean Rokosh

Edition: Revised Second Edition

Publisher: Field, B.C. : Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation

Published Date: 2006

Physical Description: 137 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Glaciers; Climatology; Climate change; Environment; Environmental conservation; Geography; Geology

Abstract: Climate change is at the forefront of public consciousness today. Political initiatives to combat the social and economic effects of changing climate will affect the lives of everyone. Media reports often portray climate scenarios and the range of uncertainty accompanying predictions. How does a reader approach the science behind the headlines? The goal of this book is to explain climate change science by examining the recent Ice Age history so spectacularly exposed in the Canadian Rocky Mountains landscape. Local and global sources of paleoclimate information are combined with dating techniques to unravel the glacial history of the Rockies over the last 30,000 years. The illustrated road log guide can be used by the armchair reader or the traveller to visit the landscape features essential to the interpretation. The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to increasing public understanding of the geosciences. Its teaching themes demonstrate the use of physics, biology, chemistry and mathematics in solving science questions and problems. The diverse program includes public lectures, teacher workshops, school programs and guided hikes. The Foundation conducts educational hikes to the Burgess Shale soft-bodied fossil deposit and the Mt. Stephen trilobite beds, both UNESCO World Heritage sites in Yoho National Park. (From Good Reads)

Contents: Introduction -- Archives of Climate Change -- Dating the Archives -- Extracting Climate Information -- Interpreting the Last Ice Age -- Finding Climate Change in the Rockies -- Glaciation in the Banff-Jasper Area -- Road Log Guide to Landscape Features -- Short Term Climate Change -- Future Climate Change -- Rood Log Stop Coordinates.

Notes: Sponsored by the CSPG Foundation

ISBN: 9780978013219

Accession Number: P2020.07

Call Number: 03.2 R93c; 03.2 R93c Reference copy

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Further research

Websites

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259496447_Climate_Change_and_Landscape_in_the_Canadian_Rocky_Mountains

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Current serials in the library of the Scott Polar Research Institute

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1972

Author: Scott Polar Research Institute

Publisher: Cambridge

Call Number: R 03.5 Sco3

Author: Scott Polar Research Institute

Publisher: Cambridge

Published Date: 1972

Physical Description: 47p

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Climatology; Glaciers

Accession Number: 597

Call Number: R 03.5 Sco3

Collection: Archives Library

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The ice age problem

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1941

Author: Knoche, Walter

Publisher: Washington (D.C.) : Smithsonian Institution

Call Number: 03.5 K75 Pam

Author: Knoche, Walter

Publisher: Washington (D.C.) : Smithsonian Institution

Published Date: 1941

Physical Description: 5p

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Series: Smithsonian miscellaneous collections, vol.99, no.22

Subjects: Climatology; Glaciers; Radiation

Accession Number: 10000

Call Number: 03.5 K75 Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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Legacy in time : three generations of mountain photography in the Canadian West

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2014

Author: Vaux, Henry

Publisher: Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: 06.4 V46l c.1; 06 V46l c.2

Author: Vaux, Henry

Responsibility: Henry Vaux Jr.

Publisher: Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2014

Physical Description: 125 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits, maps ; 23 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Climatology; Environment; Glaciers; Hydrology; Photographers; Photography; Rocky Mountains, Canada; Vaux family

Notes: Includes bibliography references; Repeat photography of glacier formations in the mountains of Western Canada, comparing the photographs taken by Vaux family members in the late 19th and early 20th century with photographs taken by Henry Vaux Jr. of in the early 21st century