Download or read book The Climate of the Hudson Bay Region written by Andrew Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Climate of Hudson Bay written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Swamplands written by Edward Struzik and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world filled with breathtaking beauty, we have often overlooked the elusive magic of certain landscapes. A cloudy river flows into an Arctic wetland where sandhill cranes and muskoxen dwell. Further south, cypress branches hang low over dismal swamps. Places like these-collectively known as swamplands or peatlands-often go unnoticed for their ecological splendor. They are as globally significant as rainforests, yet, because of their reputation as wastelands, they are being systematically drained and degraded. Swamplands celebrates these wild places, as journalist Edward Struzik highlights the unappreciated struggle to save peatlands by scientists, conservationists, and landowners around the world. An ode to peaty landscapes in all their offbeat glory, the book is also a demand for awareness of the myriad threats they face. It inspires us to see the beauty and importance in these least likely of places. Our planet's survival might depend on it.
Download or read book Recent Trends and Scenarios of Climate Change in Hudson Bay and Surrounding Seas microform written by Alexandre Sébastien Gagnon and published by Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. This book was released on 2004 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study compares the response of Hudson Bay to a transient warming scenario provided by six coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models. The analysis focused on surface temperature, precipitation, sea-ice coverage, and permafrost distribution. The response of the sea-ice cover and permafrost to climate change was found to vary considerably among the models and thus large differences were observed in the projected regional increase in temperature and precipitation. In addition, the climate and hydrology of the Hudson Bay region were analysed for trends in order to provide early evidence of climate change in the region. The Theil-Sen slope approach was used to identify the magnitude of the trends and the Mann-Kendall test assessed their statistical significance. The results showed that warming over Hudson Bay has not occurred in a unidirectional way and, consequently, the trends are sensitive to the time periods chosen for analysis. The warming trends of the last few decades are reflected in the timing of sea-ice formation and break-up, but the strong dependence of ice thickness on snow depth suggests that it is more challenging to identify an early climate change signal using ice thickness data than it is using freeze-up/break-up dates. An asymmetry was observed in the trends of maximum ice thickness, as the ice cover has become thicker over time on the western side of Hudson Bay, while slightly thinning trends and statistically significant trends towards an earlier occurrence of the peak ice thickness were detected on the eastern side. It is inevitable that increasing temperatures in the Hudson Bay region will result in a thinning of the ice cover in the long run, but changes in snow depth will tend to offset the ice thickness trends in the short run. If this trend towards a longer ice-free season continues, as the models suggest, it will have disastrous consequences for the polar bear populations that inhabit the region.
Download or read book A Little Less Arctic written by Steven H. Ferguson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-05-30 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Arctic Canada, Hudson Bay is a site of great exploration history, aboriginal culture, and a vast marine wilderness supporting large populations of marine mammals and birds. These include some of the most iconic Arctic animals like beluga, narwhal, bowhead whales, and polar bears. Due to the challenges of conducting field research in this region, some of the mysteries of where these animals move, and how they are able to survive in such seemingly inhospitable, ice-choked habitats are just now being unlocked. For example, are polar bears being replaced by killer whales? This new information could not be more salient, as the Hudson Bay Region is undergoing rapid environmental change due to global warming, as well as increased pressures from industrial development interests. A Little Less Arctic brings together some of the world’s leading Arctic scientists to present the current state of knowledge on the physical and biological characteristics of Hudson Bay.
Download or read book Reconstruction of Temperature and Pressure for the Hudson Bay Region from 1700 to the Present written by Joël Guiot and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flora of the Hudson Bay Lowland and Its Postglacial Origins written by John L. Riley and published by NRC Research Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hudson Bay Lowland is the Earth's largest more or less continuous temperate wetland landscape. This book documents 816 native and 95 non-native vascular plants in the context of the distinct geological history and ecology of the area. It includes text and annotated checklist that are complemented by distribution maps and colour illustrations.
Download or read book The World s Largest Wetlands written by Lauchlan H. Fraser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past century approximately fifty percent of the world's wetlands have been destroyed, largely due to human activities. Increased human population has lead to shrinkage of wetland areas, and data show that as they shrink, their important functions decline. Reduced wetland area causes more flooding in Spring, less available water during drought, greater risk of water pollution, and less food production and reduced carbon storage. Much of the remaining pristine wetland systems are found in the world's largest wetlands, and yet these areas have received surprisingly little scientific research or attention. This volume presents the views of leading experts on each of the world's largest wetland systems. Here, this international team of authors share their understanding of the ecological dynamics of large wetlands and their significance, and emphasise their need of conservation.
Download or read book Remarks on the Climate and Vegetable Productions of the Hudson s Bay Countries written by Sir John Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Synoptic Climatology in Environmental Analysis written by Brent Yarnal and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the methods of synoptic climatology - the relationship between the atmospheric circulation and the surface environment - and shows the vital importance of this approach in the understanding of environmental systems. This innovative and up-to-date text is both a primer for environmental scientists and a text in applied climatology for students of atmosphere science and geography. This book is constructed around the principal analytical methods of synoptic climatology: manual classification, correlation-based map-pattern classification, eigenvector-based classifications, composites and circulation indices. Four environmental scenarios illustrate the application of the synoptic climatological methods: these are urban air quality, acid rain, crop yield and fluvial hydrology.
Download or read book Charts Showing the Mean Monthly and Annual Temperatures of Hudson s Bay Region and Eastern Canada October 1885 to September 1886 written by Andrew Robertson Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1886* with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charts Showing the Mean Monthly and Annual Temperatures of Hudson s Bay Region and Eastern Canada September 1884 to October 1885 cartographic Material written by Andrew R. (Andrew Robertson) Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hudson Bay Lowlands written by Matthew Co Kathleen Corrigan and published by Beech Street Books. This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Science History and Hudson Bay written by Canada. Department of Energy, Mines and Resources and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ecological Regions of North America written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents a first attempt at holistically classifying and mapping ecological regions across all three countries of the North American continent. A common analytical methodology is used to examine North American ecology at multiple scales, from large continental ecosystems to subdivisions of these that correlate more detailed physical and biological settings with human activities on two levels of successively smaller units. The volume begins with an overview of North America from an ecological perspective, concepts of ecological regionalization. This is followed by descriptions of the 15 broad ecological regions, including information on physical and biological setting and human activities. The final section presents case studies in applications of the ecological characterization methodology to environmental issues. The appendix includes a list of common and scientific names of selected species characteristic of the ecological regions.
Download or read book Science History and Hudson Bay On the possibility of a catastrophic origin for the great arc of eastern Hudson Bay written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1: "Efforts have been directed towards the assembling under one cover of as much knowledge as possible not only of the physical characteristics of Hudson Bay, but also of its flora and fauna, the people who live there and the early explorers and others who have been responsible for its discovery and development. No specific limits were placed on either the water or land areas to be covered, and the contributors to the volume were encouraged to express freely their own ideas as to what they considered the most significant aspects of Hudson Bay, its surroundings and its relationship to the rest of Canada."-- Preface.
Download or read book Hudson Bay Region Research written by Linda Chow and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
