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Author : Berry, M.O.
Date : 1981.
Title : Recent changes in temperature in Canada, and comments on future climatic change
Publication : Syllogeus
Issue : 33:
Page(s) : 19-27



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Abstract

By the early 1980s, it became apparent that a significant cooling of the Northern Hemisphere had occurred over the previous two decades. A number of apparently anomalous climatic events with major negative repercussions were also recorded. Thomas (1975) prepared a mean annual temperature series for southern Canada, plotted as a succession of 10-yr averages, based upon data from weather observing stations with reasonably homogeneous records. The temperature trend for southern Canada is similar to the hemispheric trend and shows a warming early in the century, followed by cooling beginning in the 1950s. Pronounced cooling (>0.5 degrees C) occurred in heavily populated southern Ontario, much of Quebec, the Atlantic Provinces, and part of the Mackenzie-Great Slave region. It is impossible to predict whether the trends in Canadian temperature will continue for the next decade or two.

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