Modelling climate change effects on the spatial distribution of mountain permafrost at three sites in northwest Canada

Climatic Change

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 293-312

  Bonnaventure, Philip P ^a   Lewkowicz, Antoni G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VALUES; ATMOSPHERIC WARMING; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLOUD COVER; DIFFUSE RADIATION; DIRECT BEAMS; LAPSE RATE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEAN ANNUAL AIR TEMPERATURES; NORTHWEST CANADA; PERMAFROST DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL MODELS; STUDY AREAS;

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LANDFORMS; PERMAFROST; PROBABILITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUN;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLOUD COVER; GLOBAL WARMING; LITTLE ICE AGE; MOUNTAIN REGION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PERMAFROST; RADIATION BALANCE; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CANADA;

EID: 79951812223     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9818-5     Document Type: Article

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