Editor's note ................................................... v
Table of Contents ............................................. vil
List of Contributors ........................................... xi
List of Acronyms .............................................. xix
1 Synopsis of Atmospheric Research under MAGS
Ming-ko Woo ............................................... 1
2 MAGS Contribution to Hydrologic and Surface Process
Research
Ming-ko Woo and Wayne R. Rouse ............................ 9
3 Analysis and Application of 1-km Resolution Visible and
Infrared Satellite Data over the Mackenzie River Basin
Normand Bussières ........................................ 39
4 On the Use of Satellite Passive Microwave Data for
Estimating Surface Soil Wetness in the Mackenzie River
Basin
Robert Leconte, Marouane Temimi, Naira Chaouch,
François Brissette and Thibault Toussaint ................ 59
5 Studies on Snow Redistribution by Wind and Forest,
Snow-covered Area Depletion and Frozen Soil Infiltration
in Northern and Western Canada
John W. Pomeroy, Donald M. Gray and Phil Marsh ........... 81
6 Snowmelt Processes and Runoff at the Arctic Treeline:
Ten Years of MAGS Research
Philip Marsh, John Pomeroy, Stefan Pohl, William
Quinton, Cuyler Onclin, Mark Russell, Natasha
Neumann, Alain Pietroniro, Bruce Davison and
S. McCartney ............................................. 97
7 Modeling Maximum Active Layer Thaw in Boreal and Tundra
Environments using Limited Data
Ming-ko Woo, Michael Mollinga and Sharon L. Smith ....... 125
8 Climate-lake Interactions
Wayne R. Rouse, Peter D. Blanken, Claude R. Duguay,
Claire J. Oswald and William M. Schertzer ............... 139
9 Modeling Lake Energy Fluxes in the Mackenzie River Basin
using Bulk Aerodynamic Mass Transfer Theory
Claire J. Oswald, Wayne R. Rouse and Jacqueline
Binyamin ................................................ 161
10 The Time Scales of Evaporation from Great Slave Lake
Peter Blanken, Wayne Rouse and William Schertzer ........ 181
11 Interannual Variability of the Thermal Components
and Bulk Heat Exchange of Great Slave Lake
William M. Schertzer, Wayne R. Rouse, Peter D.
Blanken, Anne E. Walker, David C.L. Lam and Luis Leon ... 197
12 Flow Connectivity of a Lake-stream System in a Semi-arid
Precambrian Shield Environment
Ming-ko Woo and Corrinne Mielko ......................... 221
13 Hydrology of the Northwestern Subarctic Canadian Shield
Christopher Spence and Ming-ko Woo ...................... 235
14 Recent Advances toward Physically-based Runoff Modeling
of the Wetland-dominated Central Mackenzie River Basin
William L. Quinton and Masaki Hayashi ................... 257
15 River Ice
Faye Hicks and Spyros Beltaos ........................... 281
16 Regression and Fuzzy Logic Based Ice Jam Flood
Forecasting
Chandra Mahabir, Claudine Robichaud, Faye Hicks and
Aminah Robinson Fayek ................................... 307
17 Impact of Climate Change on the Peace River Thermal Ice
Regime
Robyn Andrishak and Faye Hicks .......................... 327
18 Climate Impacts on Ice-jam Floods in a Regulated Northern
River
Spyros Beltaos, Terry Prowse, Barrie Bonsai, Tom
Carter, Ross MacKay, Luigi Romolo, Alain Pietroniro
and Brenda Toth ......................................... 345
19 Trends in Mackenzie River Basin Streamflows
Donald H. Burn and Nicole Hesch ......................... 363
20 Re-scaling River Flow Direction Data from Local to
Continental Scales
Lawrence W. Martz, Alain Pietroniro, Dean A. Shaw,
Robert N. Armstrong, Boyd Laing and Martin Lacroix ...... 371
21 Lessons from Macroscale Hydrologic Modeling: Experience
with the Hydrologic Model SLURP in the Mackenzie Basin
Robin Thome, Robert N. Armstrong, Ming-ko Woo and
Lawrence W. Martz ....................................... 397
22 Development of a Hydrologic Scheme for Use in Land
Surface Models and its Application to Climate Change
in the Athabasca River Basin
Ernst Kerkhoven and Thian Yew Gan ....................... 411
23 Validating Surface Heat Fluxes and Soil Moisture
Simulated by the Land Surface Scheme CLASS under
Subarctic Tundra Conditions
Lei Wen, David Rodgers, Charles A. Lin, Nigel Roulet,
and Linying Tong ........................................ 435
24 The MAGS Integrated Modeling System
E.D. Soulis and Frank R. Seglenieks ..................... 445
25 Synthesis of Mackenzie GEWEX Studies on the Atmospheric-
Hydrologic System of a Cold Region
Ming-ko Woo ............................................. 475
Index ......................................................... 497
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