Climate change/variability and freshwater-ice systems

气候变化/变率和淡水冰系统

• 批准号: 261778-2007
• 负责人: Prowse, Terry
• 金额: $ 2.16万
• 依托单位: University of Victoria
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2013-01-01 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=525371
• 关键词: Climate; change; variability; freshwater; ice

Freshwater ice is an integral component of cold-regions lakes and rivers and an important modifier of related biological, chemical and physical processes. Although serious concerns have been expressed about the impacts of climate change on ice-covered systems (e.g., the recent assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment), knowledge of such systems is relatively weak making it difficult to predict the nature of the effects of a changing climate. This project will focus on filling some of our most important knowledge gaps by addressing three research areas: extreme hydrologic events; climatic controls; and effects on hydro-ecological systems.

淡水冰是寒冷地区湖泊和河流的一个组成部分，也是相关生物、化学和物理过程的一个重要改变因素。 虽然人们对气候变化对冰雪覆盖系统的影响表示严重关切（例如，政府间气候变化专门委员会最近的评估和北极气候影响评估），对这些系统的了解相对薄弱，因此难以预测气候变化影响的性质。 该项目将侧重于填补我们的一些最重要的知识空白，解决三个研究领域：极端水文事件;气候控制;和对水文生态系统的影响。