The Arctic Front and the Tundra-Taiga Boundary in Eurasia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7783375 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J S Krebs, Roger G Barry (0000-0001-9239-0859) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 548 |
| Publication date | 1970-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/213773 |
| OpenAlex | W2087350333 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
RECENT work by Reid A. BrysonI has shown a clear link between the boreal foresttundra boundary in central Canada and the mean summer location of the Arctic frontal zone, but as F. Kenneth Hare2 has pointed out, the cause of this relationship is uncertain. It may be that the vegetation zones reflect particular air-mass conditions, or alternatively that the locus of the front may itself be determined by differences in meteorological properties of the two zones, such as albedo, aerodynamic roughness, and moisture budget. It seems worthwhile to examine the possibility that a similar relationship exists in Eurasia, particularly in view of the fact that R. G. Barry3 has questioned the degree to which the vegetation boundary in eastern North America is correlated with the Arctic front as defined by Canadian meteorologists in terms of the boundary between continental Arctic (cA) and maritime Arctic (mA) air. This paper presents a preliminary analysis of readily available weather-map data for Eurasia. The conclusions are necessarily tentative, but we consider the findings to be of sufficient interest to warrant presentation
Archaeology · Arctic · Boreal · Boundary (topology · Front (military · Geography · Meteorology · Permafrost · Physical geography · Taiga · The arctic · Tundra · Climate change and permafrost · Cryospheric studies and observations · Forestry · Geological Studies and Exploration · Geology · Oceanography
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Observational Evidence of Recent Change in the Northern High-Latitude Environment
Historical Aspects of the Northern Canadian Treeline
Modeling spatial variability of white spruce (Picea glauca) growth responses to Climate Change at and below treeline in Alaska - A case study from two National Parks
Past environmental and climatic changes related to tree-line shifts inferred from fossil diatoms from a lake near the Lena River Delta, Siberia
Mean airstreams of Australia
Arctic Ocean Ice and Climate
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1971 - 2006 (36) |
| Highly cited | No |