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Author : Gough, W.A.
Date : 2002.
Title : Permafrost asymmetries in the Hudson Bay region, Canada.
Publication : Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers. Toronto, Ontario. May 27-28, 2002.
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Abstract
The continuous permafrost hugging the shores of southwestern Hudson Bay is examined from a climatological perspective. Three hypotheses are examined to explain the presence of continuous permafrost in this region in spite of the relatively "warm" local climate. Possible errors in the calculation of thawing degree days, the presence of spring snow cover and the asymmetries in frozen and unfrozen soil thermal conductivities are successively examined. Only the last hypothesis is likely to explain the presence of permafrost in southwestern Hudson Bay.
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