Browsing Earth and Environmental Sciences by Subject "climate change"
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Carbon Cycling in a Glacier Ice Meltwater Impacted Freshwater System of the Canadian High Arctic: Biogeochemical Processes of the Lake Hazen Watershed
(University of Waterloo, 2022-03-23)Accelerated glacier ice mass loss and intensified meltwater fluxes are among principal vectors of change affecting northern latitudes in a warming climate. Aquatic systems impacted by glacier ice meltwater are vulnerable ... -
Development of a Parallel Computational Framework to Solve Flow and Transport in Integrated Surface-Subsurface Hydrologic Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-11)HydroGeoSphere (HGS) is a 3D control-volume finite element hydrologic model describing fully-integrated surface-subsurface water flow and solute and thermal energy transport. Because the model solves tightly-coupled ... -
Environmental sensitivities of coupled biogeochemical cycles in anoxic conditions: from soil batch experiments to a bioenergetics approach
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-26)The ongoing displacement of climate zones has aggravated warming effects at regions from mid- to high-latitudes, affecting terrestrial organic carbon (C) stores. Amplified effects of warming occurring through the winter ... -
Forested Watersheds and Water Supply: Exploring Effects of Wildfires, Silviculture, and Climate Change on Downstream Waters
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-13)Drinking water supplies for much of society originate in forests. To preserve the capability of these forests to produce clean and easily treatable water, source water supply and protection strategies focus in particular ... -
Impact of Climate Change on Canadian Water Resources: A Continental-Scale Hydrologic Modelling Study Using Multiple RCM Projections
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-20)Evidence of climate change is mounting and there is nowadays an increasing international scientific consensus that current climate change is, in part, induced by anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. Climate change ... -
Impact of the Wisconsinian Glaciation on Canadian Continental Groundwater Flow
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-19)During the Quaternary period, cyclic glaciations have occurred over a global scale as the result of a climatic variability that affected the Earth's atmospheric, oceanic and glacial systems. Quaternary glaciations and their ... -
Landslide Hazard and Climate Change in the Mountain Glacial Environment of Northwest North America
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-21)The aim of this thesis was to improve the understanding of the complex interactions between climate change and landslide behavior in the periglacial mountain environment of northwest North America. In particular, this ... -
Modelling the Effects of Climate Change on the Surface and Subsurface Hydrology of the Grand River Watershed
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-06)A numerical modelling analysis of climate change’s precipitation effects on the long-term, averaged surface and subsurface hydrology of the Grand River Watershed (GRW) was undertaken in order to assess possible areas of ...