Rocky Mountains
40 Years of Surface Warming in the Northern US Rocky Mountains: Implications for Snowpack Retreat
... The northern US Rocky Mountains are experiencing rapid warming. Combined analysis of Ground Temperature (GT) measurements at two high-fidelity boreholes with Surface Air Temperature (SAT) measurements near ...
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Altered Fire Regimes and the Persistence of Quaking Aspen in the Rocky Mountains: A Literature Review
... stands grow in size. This would lead to a decrease in landscape heterogeneity and likely biodiversity, which is generally seen as a negative outcome from a management standpoint. Without investigation at fine scales, the ...
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Surface energy balance sensitivity to meteorological variability on Haig Glacier, Canadian Rocky Mountains
... A spectrally and vertically integrated radiative transfer calculation is needed to predict the incoming longwave ra- diation from the atmosphere, as this depends on lower- tropospheric water vapour, cloud, and ...
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Daily temperature records from a mesonet in the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, 2005–2010
... Abstract. Near-surface air temperatures were monitored from 2005 to 2010 in a mesoscale network of 230 sites in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Alberta, Canada. The monitoring network ...
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Daily measurements of near-surface humidity from a mesonet in the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, 2005–2010
... Abstract. Hourly near-surface relative humidity and temperature were monitored from 2005 to 2010 in a mesoscale network of 232 sites in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Alberta, Canada. ...
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Loss of anti predator behaviors in cattle and the increased predation losses by wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains
... Temperament selection of livestock species and espe- cially cattle during the last 15 years has led to calm and easy to handle cattle. With the reintroduction of Cana- dian gray wolves in the Northern Rocky ...
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Eighth International Symposium on Arctic-Alpine Mycology (ISAM 8), Beartooth Plateau, Rocky Mountains, USA 2008
... Abstract: The eighth International Symposium on Arctic-Alpine Mycology (ISAM 8) was held on the Beartooth Plateau, Rocky Mountains, USA, August 3-10, 2008. A report on this symposium is given along with a ...
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Multi-year evaluation of airborne geodetic surveys to estimate seasonal mass balance, Columbia and Rocky Mountains, Canada
... Abstract. Seasonal measurements of glacier mass balance provide insight into the relation between climate forcing and glacier change. To evaluate the feasibility of using re- motely sensed methods to assess seasonal ...
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Multi variable evaluation of hydrological model predictions for a headwater basin in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
... Abstract. One of the purposes of the Cold Regions Hydro- logical Modelling platform (CRHM) is to diagnose inade- quacies in the understanding of the hydrological cycle and its simulation. A physically based hydrological ...
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Meltwater run off from Haig Glacier, Canadian Rocky Mountains, 2002–2013
... Glaciers remain third behind seasonal snowpack and spring/summer rainfall in the overall contributions to stream- flow in the Bow Basin. Moreover, much of the flow in the Bow River and in other critical rivers that issue ...
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Wolf, Canis lupus , Den Site Selection in the Rocky Mountains
... The most common tree species at den sites was Dou- glas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), followed in order of occurrence by Engelmann Spruce (Picea engelman- nii), Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta), Trembling Aspen (Populus ...
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Lycoperdaceae (Agaricales) on the Beartooth Plateau, Rocky Mountains, U.S.A
... Abstract: Ten species of Lycoperdaceae classified into three genera, Bovista, Calvatia and Lycoperdon are reported from the Beartooth Plateau, Rocky Mountains, U.S.A. All are new records for this alpine ...
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Area change of glaciers in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, 1919 to 2006
... Canadian Rocky Mountains, but it is temporally ...Canadian Rocky Moun- tains prior to the beginning of satellite imagery acquisition are generally limited to a few select glaciers (Ommanney, 2002) ...
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Drought and vegetation change in the central Rocky Mountains and western Great Plains: potential climatic mechanisms associated with megadrought conditions at 4200 cal yr BP
... central Rocky Mountains, as indicated by sedimentary pollen evidence doc- umenting a brief and unique change in vegetation compo- sition from Long Lake, southeastern ...central Rocky ...
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Influence of high-order mechanics on simulation of glacier response to climate change: insights from Haig Glacier, Canadian Rocky Mountains
... Canadian Rocky Mountains, we test this hypothesis by comparing simula- tion results obtained from 3-D numerical models that deal with different assumptions concerning physics, ranging from simple shear ...
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Seasonal Moulting in Deer Mice ( Peromyscus maniculatus ) in the Rocky Mountains, Alberta
... We collected Deer Mice from three riparian habi- tats: Porcupine Creek (~1440 m above sea level), Wasootch Creek (~1440 m above sea level), and Evan- Thomas Creek (~1650 m above sea level), all tributar- ies of the ...
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On the importance of sublimation to an alpine snow mass balance in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
... Abstract. A modelling study was undertaken to evaluate the contribution of sublimation to an alpine snow mass balance in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Snow redistribution and sublimation by wind, snowpack ...
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Notes on Mollisioid Ascomycetes from the Beartooth Plateau, Rocky Mountains USA
... Abstract: During a visit to the Beartooth Plateau, Rocky Mountains USA, several collections were made of inoperculate Ascomycetes. This article deals with some Mollisioid fungi, i.e., members of the family ...
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Fertilization of Some Range Soils in the Rocky Mountains.
... The complete set of treatments (Table 2) was added to all sites except those soils from Morrison shale, basalt and andesite.. Soil samples for laboratory anal- ysis [r] ...
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Tectono-metamorphic evolution of Big Thompson Canyon region, Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA
... a Probability density plot and b, weighted average age plot for all samples in which monazite grains were dated within foliations contained within porphyroblast, preserving FIA set 4 inc[r] ...
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