Sweeney, John (1985) The 1984 drought on the Canadian Prairies. Weather, 40. pp. 302-310. ISSN 1477-8696
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Abstract
From the beginning of Canadian settlement, the major challenge facing agriculture
has been to adapt to the rigours of an extreme, and vanable, climatic environment.
Nowhere is this struggle better epitomised than in the three Prairie Provinces of Albertac
Saskatchewan and Manitoba. With annual pre-cipitation amounts everywhere below 500mm, and locally as little as 250mm, the climate of the Prames can justifiably be
described as semi-arid (Summerville 1981), and their vulnerability to even small
departures from the climatic norm may be appreciated. Over large areas as little as 50m
of rainfall can make the difference between abundance and economic crisis, particularly
during late spring and early summeer when the developing crops are in greatest need of
moisture. This sensitivity was tragically demonstrated during the 1984 growing season.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | 1984 drought; Canadian Prairies; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > Irish Climate Analysis and Research Units, ICARUS |
Item ID: | 10199 |
Depositing User: | Prof. John Sweeney |
Date Deposited: | 09 Nov 2018 12:12 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Weather |
Publisher: | Royal Meteorological Society |
Refereed: | Yes |
URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/10199 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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