An assessment of present and future climate in the Mackenzie Delta and the near-shore Beaufort Sea region of Canada

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1780-1795

  Bonsal, Barrie R ^a   Kochtubajda, Bohdan ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Beaufort Sea; Climate change; Climatic extremes; Global climate models; Gridded data; Mackenzie Delta; Precipitation; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; BEAUFORT SEA; CLIMATIC EXTREMES; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELS; GRIDDED DATA; MACKENZIE DELTA; PRECIPITATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA; CANADA; MACKENZIE DELTA; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES;

EID: 70349862257     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1812     Document Type: Article

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