| Title | FAQ 5: How is the climate going to change in Canada's coastal regions and how are these projections determined? FAQ 6. How will sea level change in Canada? How are the projected changes
determined? |
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| Author | James, T S |
| Source | Canada's Marine Coasts in a Changing Climate; 2015 p. 253-274 |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Alt Series | Earth Sciences Sector, Contribution Series 20150149 |
| Publisher | Government of Canada |
| Document | book |
| Lang. | English; French |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Offshore region |
| Area | Marine Coastal |
| Subjects | environmental geology; Nature and Environment; climate effects; climate; coastal environment; coastal studies; coastal management; environmental analysis; environmental studies; environmental impacts;
environmental controls |
| Illustrations | satellite images; location maps; temperature maps; sealevel maps; photographs |
| Program | Climate Change Geoscience Coastal Infrastructure |
| Abstract | These FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) give brief (about 1000 word) answers to the indicated questions. They do not have an abstract. They will appear as a section in a report titled "Canada's Marine
Coasts in a Changing Climate" |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
These FAQs answer, in plain language (for an educated, but non-technical, audience) the posed questions. Temperatures are projected to increase in
Canada, while projections of precipitation exhibit some regional variability. Confidence in the projections of some climate variables (e.g., winds, waves, fog) is generally low. Projections of sea-level change vary dramatically across Canada,
depending largely on vertical land motion. Where the land rising quickly in Hudson Bay and parts of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, sea-level is projected to continue to fall. Where the land is subsiding or rising slowly, in the Maritimes, BC, and
the Beaufort coastline, sea-level is projected to rise. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 296816 |
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