ARCTIC Spatial Representativeness of Climatic Data from Baffin Island, N.W.T., with Implications for Muskoxen and Caribou Distribution

• Main Author: John D. Jacobs
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1988
• Subjects: Arctic; Baffin Island; Foxe Basin; Arctique*; Baffin; Terre de Baffin
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.584.4450; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic42-1-50.pdf

ABSTRACT. Climatic records from often widely scattered arctic stations are commonly used to draw conclusions about such matters as wildlife habitat and distribution, yet little is known about the validity of extrapolating from such limited data. Statistical tests of meteorological network representa...