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Environment Canada, 2011, Calculation of the 1971 to 2000 Climate
Normals for Canada, http://climate.weatheroffice.gc.ca/prods_servs/normals_documentation_e.html (accessed January 10, 2011).
Environment Canada, 2011, Climate Trends and Variations, www.ec.gc.ca/adsc-cmda/default.asp?lang=En&n=F3D25729-1 (accessed
February 7, 2011).
Global Climate Observing System, 2011, Global Climate Observing System, www.wmo.int/pages/prog/gcos/index.php?name=EssentialClimateVariable (accessed February 14, 2011).
Global Observing Systems Information
Center, n.d. (no date), GCOS Essential Climate Variables (ECV) Data &
Information Access Matrix, http://gosic.org/ios/MATRICES/ECV/ecv-matrix.htm (accessed
February 14, 2011).
Environment
Canada, 2010, About Climate Trends and Variations Bulletin, www.ec.gc.ca/adsc-cmda/default.asp?lang=En&n=D48C5C94-1 (accessed
February 25, 2011).
Environment Canada, 2010, Adjusted and Homogenized Canadian
Climate Data (AHCCD), http://ec.gc.ca/dccha-ahccd/default.asp?lang=En&n=B1F8423A-1 (accessed January 28, 2011).
The World Meteorological Organization recommends that countries
prepare 30-year climate normals for the periods ending in 1930, 1960 and 1990.
See: Environment Canada, 2011, Calculation of the 1971 to 2000 Climate
Normals, http://climate.weatheroffice.gc.ca/prods_servs/normals_documentation_e.html (accessed January 28, 2011).
E. Milewska and W.D. Hogg, 2001, "Spatial Representativeness of
a Long-Term Climate Network in Canada,"Atmosphere-Ocean, Vol. 39,
no. 2, pages 145 to 161.
P.K. Sen, 1968, "Estimates of the regression
coefficient based on Kendall's tau," Journal of the American Statistical
Association, Vol. 63, pages 1379 to 1389.
To enquire about
the statistical analysis used in this article, contact the Information Officer
(613-951-0297; environ@statcan.gc.ca), Environment Accounts
and Statistics Division.
The annual mean temperature departure trends for the nation
as a whole and for all climatic regions showed confidence levels varying from 90%
to 99.9%.
The seasonal mean temperature
departure trends for the nation showed confidence levels varying from 99%
to 99.9%.
The seasonal mean minimum are maximum temperature departure trends for the
nation showed confidence levels of 99.1% for all but the fall maximum
(90% confidence level) and the fall minimum (99% confidence level).
Department of National Health and Welfare, 1993, Guidelines for Canadian
Drinking Water Quality - Water Treatment Principles and Applications: A Manual
for the Production of Drinking Water, Canadian Water and Wastewater Association,
Ottawa.
Statistics
Canada, Environment Accounts and Statistics Division, 2011, Survey of
Drinking Water Plants, special tabulation.
American Water
Works Association, 2011, Water Quality & Treatment: A Handbook
on Drinking Water, Sixth Edition, J.K. Edzwald (ed.), New York ,
McGraw-Hill.
The other unfiltered systems treating groundwater—disinfection
only and no treatment—were not included in the analysis.
Statistics Canada, Environment
Accounts and Statistics Division, 2011, Survey of Drinking Water Plants,
special tabulation.
Statistics Canada, Environment Accounts and Statistics Division, 2011,
Survey of Drinking Water Plants, special tabulation.
Statistics Canada, Environment Accounts and Statistics Division, 2011,
Survey of Drinking Water Plants, special tabulation.
A warm
dry wind which blows east of the Rocky Mountains.
Not
all of Calgary is included in this ecoregion and this may influence reported
labour force characteristics.
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