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Author : Demuth, M.N.; Hopkinson, C.; Luckman, B.H.; Moore, R.D.; Munro, D.S.; Pietroniro, A.; Pinard, V.; Short, N.; Smith, D.J.; and Wheate, R.
Date : 2005.
Title : The role of in-situ and remote sensing measurements in documenting land ice changes and impacts for the Canadian Cordillera: some results, utility of data and required future initiatives.
Publication : Canadian Geophysical Union Annual Science Meeting, Banff, Alberta. May 8-11, 2005.
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Abstract
The glaciers of western Canada exist, in a glacio-climate sense, from the continental Rocky Mountains to the humid interior montane to the maritime regimes of the Coast Mountains. They are implicit in both the evolving water resource and freshwater flux/sea-level change issues of the day. For example, glacier diminution in the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains has been linked to a reduced stream-flow regulatory effect and lower basin yields during warm-dry climate episodes. Also, it has been demonstrated that wastage from the large glacier complexes of the Northern Coast Mountains (BC, Yukon and Alaska) is on par with or exceeds that from the marginal areas of the Greenland Ice Sheet as it concerns eustatic sea-level variations. In this presentation/paper we review the current status (successes and pitfalls) and organisation of in-situ and remote-sensing based land ice change detection efforts for western Canada and illustrate some recent perspectives resulting from these efforts as they concern land ice change and its hydrological impacts in particular. Finally, discussion is provided on the requirement and mechanisms for continued improvements to the co-ordination of contemporary monitoring efforts, change detection with legacy geomatic and paleo-environmental data, and hydrological modeling - all towards the conduct and uptake of research having significant societal importance.
Bibliography of Canadian Geomorphology