The Prairie Ecozone is the only major region of Canada where drought is a landscape hazard; aridity is linked to soil erosion. Management of prairie ecosystems and soil landscapes therefore requires an understanding of past and future trends and variability in regional aridity. We used instrumental and paleoclimatic records to define a regional baseline for prairie aridity, to evaluate the utility of modern climate normals (i.e. 1961-1990) as a benchmark for future climatic change, and to provide a historical context for a range of General Circulation Model (GCM) forecasts of regional aridity. A warm-dry scenario derived from the Canadian GCM projects a significant increase in the area of subhumid and semiarid climate. Tree rings and diatom...
Instrumental records indicate a century-long trend towards drying over western North America and wet...
With increasing evidences of climate change in the prairie region, there is an urgent need to unders...
Drought is a significant climatic disturbance in grasslands, yet the impact drought caused by global...
Water and soil are critical to the prosperity of the southern Canadian prairies. Both have been stro...
The Northern Great Plains region is especially sensitive to drought and is likely to be even more dr...
Within Canada, the Canadian Prairies are particularly drought-prone mainly due to their location in ...
The Canadian Prairies rely heavily on ample amounts of freshwater, especially for their agricultural...
Drought is a complex natural hazard that is endemic to the Canadian prairies. The 1999–2005 Canadian...
Drought is a complex natural hazard which is endemic to the Canadian Prairies. The 1999-2005 Canadia...
The information from the Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM) can be applied to improve predict...
According to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (IPCC, 2014), climate change is projected to reduce su...
From the beginning of Canadian settlement, the major challenge facing agriculture has been to adapt...
Water and soil are critical to the prosperity of the southern Canadian prairies. Both have been stro...
The Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) is unique to North America. Its millions of wetlands and abundant e...
The primary objective of this thesis was to study climatic variations that occurred in the Grassland...
Instrumental records indicate a century-long trend towards drying over western North America and wet...
With increasing evidences of climate change in the prairie region, there is an urgent need to unders...
Drought is a significant climatic disturbance in grasslands, yet the impact drought caused by global...
Water and soil are critical to the prosperity of the southern Canadian prairies. Both have been stro...
The Northern Great Plains region is especially sensitive to drought and is likely to be even more dr...
Within Canada, the Canadian Prairies are particularly drought-prone mainly due to their location in ...
The Canadian Prairies rely heavily on ample amounts of freshwater, especially for their agricultural...
Drought is a complex natural hazard that is endemic to the Canadian prairies. The 1999–2005 Canadian...
Drought is a complex natural hazard which is endemic to the Canadian Prairies. The 1999-2005 Canadia...
The information from the Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM) can be applied to improve predict...
According to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (IPCC, 2014), climate change is projected to reduce su...
From the beginning of Canadian settlement, the major challenge facing agriculture has been to adapt...
Water and soil are critical to the prosperity of the southern Canadian prairies. Both have been stro...
The Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) is unique to North America. Its millions of wetlands and abundant e...
The primary objective of this thesis was to study climatic variations that occurred in the Grassland...
Instrumental records indicate a century-long trend towards drying over western North America and wet...
With increasing evidences of climate change in the prairie region, there is an urgent need to unders...
Drought is a significant climatic disturbance in grasslands, yet the impact drought caused by global...