Preface ......................................................... v
Table of Contents .............................................. ix
List of Contributors ......................................... xiii
List of Acronyms .............................................. xxi
1 The Mackenzie GEWEX Study: a Contribution to Cold Region
Atmospheric and Hydrologic Sciences
Ming-ko Woo, Wayne R. Rouse, Ronald E. Stewart and
John M.R. Stone ........................................... 1
2 The Mackenzie Climate System: A Synthesis of MAGS
Atmospheric Research
Kit K. Szeto, R.E. Stewart, M.K. Yau and J. Gyakum ....... 23
3 Climatological Analysis of the Mackenzie River Basin
Anticyclones: Structure, Evolution and Interannual
Variability
Lily Ioannidou and Peter M.K. Yau ........................ 51
4 Variability of Cold-Season Temperatures in the Mackenzie
Basin Kit К. Szeto ....................................... 61
5 Extreme Winter Warming over the Mackenzie Basin:
Observations and Causes
Zuohao Cao, Ronald E. Stewart and William D. Hogg ........ 83
6 Water Vapor Fluxes over the Canadian Prairies
and the Mackenzie River Basin
Jinliang Liu, Ronald E. Stewart and Kit К. Szeto ........ 109
7 Moisture Sources for Extreme Rainfall Events over
the Mackenzie River Basin
Julian C. Brimelow and Gerhard W. Reuter ................ 127
8 Precipitation Recycling in the Mackenzie and Three
Other Major River Basins
Kit К. Szeto, Jinliang Liu and Alexander Wong ........... 137
9 On the Cloud and Precipitating Systems over the Mackenzie
Basin
David Hudak, Ronald E. Stewart, Peter Rodriguez and
Bohdan Kochtubajda ...................................... 155
10 The Relationship between Monthly Precipitation and
Elevation in the Alberta Foothills during the Foothills
Orographic Precipitation Experiment
Craig D. Smith .......................................... 167
11 On Predicting Maximum Snowfall
Max L. Dupilka and Gerhard W. Reuter .................... 187
12 Estimating Snow Water Equivalent in Northern Regions
from Satellite Passive Microwave Data
Chris Derksen, Anne Walker and Peter Toose .............. 195
13 Mackenzie Basin Snow Cover: Variability and Trends from
Conventional Data, Satellite Remote Sensing, and Canadian
Regional Climate Model Simulations
Chris Derksen, Ross Brown and Murray MacKay ............. 213
14 Recent Studies on the Climatology and Modeling of Blowing
Snow in the Mackenzie River Basin
Stephen J. Dery and M.K. Yau ............................ 241
15 On Blowing Snow and Sublimation in the Mackenzie River
Basin
Mark Gordon and Peter A. Taylor ......................... 259
16 Assessing Water and Energy Budgets for the Mackenzie
River Basin
Kit K. Szeto, Hang Tran, Murray MacKay, Robert
Crawford and Ronald E. Stewart .......................... 269
17 Characteristics of the Moisture Flux Convergence over
the Mackenzie River Basin for the 1990-2000 Water-years
Mark Schuster ........................................... 297
18 The Influence of Lakes on the Regional Energy and Water
Balance of the Central Mackenzie River Basin
Wayne R. Rouse, Jacqueline Binyamin, Peter D. Blanken,
Normand Bussieres, Claude R. Duguay, Claire J. Oswald,
William M. Schertzer and Christopher Spence ............. 309
19 Mapping of Surface Albedo over Mackenzie River Basin
from Satellite Observations
Alexander P. Trishchenko, Konstantin V. Khlopenkov,
Calin Ungureanu, Rasim Latifovic, Yi Luo and William
B. Park ................................................. 327
20 Comparison of Solar Radiation Budgets in the Mackenzie
River Basin from Satellite Observations and a Regional
Climate Model
Song Guo, Henry G. Leighton, Jian Feng and Murray
MacKay .................................................. 343
21 Wildfire Aerosol and Cloud Radiative Forcing in
the Mackenzie River Basin from Satellite Observations
Song Guo, Henry G. Leighton, Jian Feng, and Alexander
Trishchenko ............................................. 365
22 The Nature and Impacts of Thunderstorms in a Northern
Climate
Bohdan Kochtubajda, Michael D. Flannigan, John R.
Gyakum, Ronald E. Stewart, William R. Burrows,
Andrew Way, Evan Richardson and Ian Stirling ............ 383
23 Forest Fires and Climate Change in the Northwest
Territories
Michael D. Flannigan, Bohdan Kochtubajda and
Kimberley A. Logan ...................................... 403
24 The Impact of CLASS in MAGS Monthly Ensemble Predictions
Harold Ritchie and Yves Delage .......................... 419
25 The MAGS Regional Climate Modeling System: CRCM-MAGS
Murray MacKay, Paul Bartlett, Ed Chan, Diana Verseghy,
E.D. Soul is and Frank R. Seglenieks .................... 433
26 Synopsis of Hydrologic Research under MAGS
Ming-ko Woo ............................................. 451
Index ......................................................... 461
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