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Spatial And Temporal Variability Of The Snow Environment In The Western Canadian Arctic, Philip Mann
Spatial And Temporal Variability Of The Snow Environment In The Western Canadian Arctic, Philip Mann
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
Snow cover in the Western Canadian Arctic is a significant input to the hydrological mass balance, it produces shelter and habitat for animals and humans, and supports interactions with vegetation and climate. The Arctic-tundra snow cover is greatly impacted by wind erosion, redistribution and deposition of snow during high wind events over the winter months. As a result, the end of winter snow cover is characterised by significant small-scale (on the order of a few meters) spatial variations in snow cover depth, density, and thus snow water equivalent (SWE), and runoff. Future climate related changes to snow cover depth and …