Regional congruence of vegetation and summer climate patterns

ABSTRACT. In the Queen Elizabeth Islands, regional distributions of vegetation and many summer climate patterns show similar, distinctive S-shaped patterns, a response to the interaction between regional topography and persistent northwesterly flow from the central Arctic Ocean. The cool and cloudy...

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Main Authors: Sylvia A. Edlund, Bea Taylor Alt
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1989
Subjects:
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Canada
Heiberg
Central Arctic
Queen Elizabeth Islands
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.517.5191
http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic42-1-3.pdf

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