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Author : Cordeau, S.R.
Date : 2011.
Title : Dgging the low down- tracking winter storms and their signatures on the Columbia Icefield.
Publication : 2011 Annual Meeting of the Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers. March 10-12, 2011. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.
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Abstract
Here in Western Canada where the land is so rich in glaciated features, understanding the relationship between weather and glacier mass balance fluxes plays a key role in water management for habitats and communities downstream. A synoptic weather classification scheme is being developed to explain the climatic processes controlling mass-balance fluctuations on the Columbia Icefield in the Canadian Rockies. This simple classification system is designed to integrate the various weather-related processes that control the ice cap mass-balance. The data from snowpits and ice cores, gathered (from a lot of digging in the snow) during field seasons, were matched to corresponding weather events of the same year.
Bibliography of Canadian Geomorphology