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N2 in deep subsurface fracture fluids of the Canadian Shield: Source and possible recycling processes
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Li, Long, Li, Kan, Giunta, Thomas, Warr, Oliver, Labidi, Jabrane, Lollar, Barbara Sherwood
In addition to high concentrations of CH4 and H2, abundant dissolved N2 is found in subsurface fracture fluids in Precambrian cratons around the world. These fracture fluids have hydrogeological isolation times on order of thousands to millions and even billions of years. Assessing the sources...
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Identifying and analyzing spatial and temporal patterns of lightning-ignited wildfires in Western Canada from 1981-2018.
DownloadSpring 2021
This study looked at the spatial and temporal patterns of lightning-ignited wildfires in Western Canada from 1981 to 2018. Studying patterns of lightning fires over space and time can provide great insight into understanding, highlighting, and quantifying these sequences. This is of great...
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MATLAB functions for Lightning Excitation of the Ionospheric Alfvén Resonator by Charles Nokes
MATLAB functions for Lightning Excitation of the Ionospheric Alfvén Resonator by Charles Nokes
Download2019-01-01
Code for the analysis in the thesis titled "Lightning Excitation of the Ionospheric Alfvén Resonator" by Charles Nokes was written in Matlab. 26 Matlab functions were created in all. lightningandiar.m is the function in which all the main input parameters are set. It then calls the next...
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Spring 2019
The ionospheric Alfvén resonator (IAR) is an area of space that, due to sharp Alfvén speed gradients, has the ability to trap electromagnetic plasma wave energy, where it bounces in the Alfvén mode between near-Earth space and the lower ionosphere. Here we present research that, by comparing...
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Possible thunderstorm modifications caused by the Athabasca oil sands development and the Canadian Shield
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Thunderstorms are common in boreal forest regions and can cause dangerous hazards such as lightning, forest fires, hail, wind, and flooding. Significant research has been conducted to help predict thunderstorms to mitigate or avoid the hazards and damage. The development of thunderstorms...
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2014-06-13
Fu, L., Marey, H.S., Hashisho, Z.
The rapid expansion of oil sands activities and massive energy requirements to extract and upgrade the bitumen have led to a need for more comprehensive understanding of their potential environmental impacts, particularly on air quality. There are many oil sands developments and natural sources...
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Spring 2014
Lightning is widely acknowledged as a major cause of wildland fires in Canada. On average, 250,000 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes occur in Alberta every year. Lightning-caused wildland fires in remote areas have considerably larger suppression costs and a much greater chance of escaping...
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Subsurface Geophysical Characterization of the Crystalline Canadian Shield in Northeastern Alberta: Implications for Geothermal Development
DownloadFall 2013
In northern Alberta, existing heat flow and geothermal gradient studies suggest that using geothermal heat in oil sands processing would require deep drilling of the crystalline Canadian Shield. Using a 2.36 km deep borehole located near Fort McMurray, the goal of this study is to investigate the...
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2011
Skinner, W., Flannigan, M., Shabber, A.
An empirical scheme for predicting the meteorological conditions that lead to summer forest fire severity for Canada using the multivariate singular value decomposition (SVD) has been developed for the 1953-2007 period. The levels and sources of predictive skill have been estimated using a...
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Fire Drives Transcontinental Variation in Tree Birch Defense against Browsing by Snowshoe Hares
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Cleland, D. T., Clausen, T. P., Hawkins, C. D. B., Picone, P. M., Moore, J. E., Bryant, J. P., Stevens, M. T., Kirilenko, A. P., Malone, T., Swihart, R. K., Landhausser, S. M., Cebrian, M., Veitch, A. M., Paragi, T. F., Jakubas, W. J., Packee, E. C., Carriere, S., Bodony, K. L., Williams, J. H., Popko, R. A., Carlson, M. R.
Abstract: Fire has been the dominant disturbance in boreal America since the Pleistocene, resulting in a spatial mosaic in which the most fire occurs in the continental northwest. Spatial variation in snowshoe hare ( Lepus americanus) density reflects the fire mosaic. Because fire initiates...