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Sauchyn St-Jacques Luckman-2015-Long-tern reliability of the Athabasca River Alberta Canada as the water source for oil sands mining

Exploitation of the Alberta oil sands, the world’s third-largest crude oil reserve, requires fresh water from the Athabasca River, an...

Sauchyn St-Jacques Barrow-2016-Adaptive water resource planning in the South Saskatchewan River Basin use of scenarios of hydroclimatic variability and extremes

The South Saskatchewan River Basin is one of Canada’s most threatened watersheds, with water supplies in most subbasins over-allocated. In...

Sauchyn Kulshreshtha-2007-Prairies Chapter 7

Increases in water scarcity represent the most serious climate risk. the Prairies are Canada’s major dryland. Recent trends and future...

Munoz Gonzalez-Reyes Lara-2016-Streamflow variability in the Chilean Temperate-Mediterranean climate transition during the last four hundred years inferred from tree-ring records

As rainfall in South-Central Chile has decreased in recent decades, local communities and industries have developed an understandable concern about...

McMartin Merino Bonsal-2018-Limitations of water resources infrastructure for reducing community vulnerabilities for extremes and uncertainty of flood and drought

Debate and deliberation surrounding climate change has shifted from mitigation toward adaptation, with much of the adaptation focus centered on...

Marchildon Pittmann Sauchyn 2009 The dry belt and changing aridity in the Palliser Triangle 1895–2000

Due to its average aridity as well as historical experience with prolonged droughts, the Dry Belt has long been identified...

Lapp St-Jacques Sauchyn-2013-Forcing of hydroclimatic variability in the northwestern Great Plains since AD 1406

The 20th century hydroclimatology of northwestern North America has been linked to naturally recurring large-scale climate patterns such as the...

Lapp Sauchyn Toth 2009 Constructing scenarios of future climate and water supply for the SSRB

This paper describes scenarios of climate change and water supply constructed to assess vulnerability of communities to future conditions in...