Regional Congruence of Vegetation and Summer Climate Patterns in the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Northwest Territories, Canada

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 central po...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:ARCTIC
Main Authors: Edlund, Sylvia A., Alt, Bea Taylor
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1989
Subjects:
Bioclimatology
Effects of climate on plants
Meteorology
Plant distribution
Plant ecology
Plants (Biology)
Queen Elizabeth Islands
N.W.T./Nunavut
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Canada
Heiberg
Northwest Territories
Nunavut
Reine
Arctique*
Central Arctic
Online Access:https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64689

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