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Author Sandford, Robert W.

Title Cold matters : the state and fate of Canada's fresh water / Robert William Sandford.

Publication Info. Toronto : Rocky Mountain Books, 2012.

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Contents ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1""; ""The Roots of Hydrological Modelling in Canada""; ""The Cold Regions Model and CFCAS: A Decade of Advancement in Canadian Climate Science""; ""What is Parameterization?""; ""Building a Model that Never Stops Learning""; ""How to Handle All That Data""; ""Hydrology, Glaciology and Snowmelt""; ""The ISNOBAL Mountain Snowmelt Model""; ""Modelling the North and the Prairies �""; ""� and Confronting the Politics of Parameters""; ""Coming to Grips with Extreme Complexity""; ""Chapter 2""; ""WC2N""
""WC2N and the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site""""Glacier Recession: The Global as Represented in the Local""; ""Glacier Loss in the Mountain Parks""; ""Glacier Loss in Alberta�s Provincial Parks""; ""Extending the Record Further Back in Time""; ""What the Research Tells Us""; ""What Is the Fate of Our Glaciers?""; ""Peering into the Future of the Mountain West: St. Elias Mountains, Yukon""; ""A Picturesque Drive to the Time of Ice""; ""Why Snow Dome is Important �""; ""� and How Things are Changing in the Mountains""; ""Chapter 3""; ""Modelling the Physics of Snow""
""Much Depends on Coldness""""Snow Matters""; ""The Ultimate Snowblower""; ""Modelling Snow that Doesn�t Reach the Ground""; ""Reflecting on Snow: The Albedo of Clear-cuts""; ""How Much Water is on Deposit in that Snowbank?""; ""Studying Snow at Marmot Creek""; ""What Happens When Snow Melts?""; ""The Importance of Marmot Lab""; ""Chapter 4""; ""Planetary-scale Water Transfers as an “Orderly Market�""; ""The Importance of Sea Ice""; ""Climate Change and Permafrost: A North Coming Unglued""; ""The Glaciology of Climate Change: The Arctic�Alpine Link""
""When the Mortar of Mountains Melts Away""""IP3 in NWT and Yukon: Figuring Out Where “Square 1� Is""; ""Flying on Instruments: Climate Modelling Needs Climate Monitoring""; ""Chapter 5""; ""The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment""; ""James Lovelock and the Importance of Monitoring""; ""Abandoning Stationarity: Nature Always Has “Pushed the Envelope�""; ""Dealing with Hydrologic Non-Stationarity""; ""The Consequences of Lost Stability""; ""Chapter 6""; ""How Northerners are Adapting""; ""Climate change and Indigenous Traditional Knowledge""; ""Nordicity: Cold is Cultural""
""Cold Also Matters as a Water-Storage Medium""""Science to the Rescue""; ""When Democratic Government Actually Governs: Mitigating Climate Change with Sound Water Policy in NWT""; ""FLOW�s Recommendations for Even Further Policy Improvement""; ""Chapter 7""; ""The Value of the Science to the Private Sector: The BC Hydro Business Case""; ""The Spin-Off Benefits of Good Research""; ""Continuing the Work of the IP3 &WC²N Research Networks""; ""The Relevance of IP3 and WC²N Research Outcomes""; ""Toward the Future""; ""Further Reading""; ""Index""; ""About the Author""
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Subject Ice -- Canada.
Ice.
Canada.
Snow -- Canada.
Snow.
Climatic changes -- Canada.
Climatic changes.
Freshwater ecology -- Canada.
Freshwater ecology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Sandford, Robert William Cold Matters : The State and Fate of Canada's Fresh Water Nanoose Bay : Heritage House Publishing,c2012 9781927330197
ISBN 9781927330463 (electronic book)
1927330467 (electronic book)
9781927330203 (electronic book)
1927330203 (electronic book)