Readings in Physical Geography
This collection of journal articles is arranged by chapter of “Physical Geography: Science and Systems of the Human Environment” by Alan Strahler and Arthur Strahler. There are as few as one or as many as five articles relevant to each chapter and are chosen on the basis of relevance, accessibility and interest. The motivation of this list is to provide a resource to instructors of Introductory Physical Geography that can be accessed in order to provide recent research and case studies that may be added to lectures as necessary.

Prologue
·    Richards, A., 2002, Complexity in Physical Geography, Geography, 87, 99-107.
·    Phillips, J. A., 2003, Sources of Nonlinearity and Complexity in Geomorphic Systems, Progress in Physical Geography, 27, 1-23.
 
Chapter 1 – The Earth as a Rotating Planet
·    Chapman, L. and Thornes, J. E., 2003, The Use of Geographical Information Systems in Climatology And Meteorology, Progress in Physical Geography, 27, 313-330.
·    Powledge, F., 2002, A look back at the International Biodiversity Observation Year, BioScience, 52 (12), 1070-1079. [interesting article on the use of geomatics in monitoring biodiversity].
·    Weimerskirch, H. et al., 2002, GPS Tracking of Foraging Albatrosses, Science, 295, 1259.

Chapter 2 – The Global Energy System
·    Karoly, D. J., 2003, Ozone and Climate Change, Science, 302, 236-237
·    Tabazadeh, A., Drdla, K., Schoeberl, M. R., Hamil, P., and Toon, O. B., 2002, Arctic “ozone hole” in a cold volcanic stratosphere, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99. 2609-2612.
·    Stohl, A., Wernli, H., James, P., Bourqui, M., Forster, C., Linger, M. A., Siebert, P., and Sprenger, M., 2003, A New Perspective of Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, November 2003, 1565-1573.
·    Wielicki, B. A., et al., 2002, Evidence for Large Decadal Variability in the Tropical Mean Radiative Budget, Science, 295, 841-844.

Chapter 3 – Air Temperature and Air Temperature Cycles
·    Changnon, S. A., 2003, Urban Modification of Freezing-Rain Events, Journal of Applied Meteorology, 42, 863-870.
·    Karl, T. R. and Trenberth, K. E., Modern Global Climate Change, Science, 302, 1719-1723.
·    Church, J. A., 2001, How Fast are Sea Levels Rising, Science, 294, 802-803.
·    Luterbacher, J., Dietrich, D., Xoplaki, E., Grosjean, M., and Wanner, H., 2004, European Seasonal and Annual Temperature Variability, Trends, and Extremes since 1500, Science, 303, 1499-1503.

Chapter 4 – Atmospheric Moisture and Precipitation
·    Pedgley, D. E., 2003, Luke Howard and his clouds, Weather 58, 51-55. [note: Luke Howard invented the cloud classification scheme in 1802].
·    Ohmura, A. and Wild, M., 2002, Is the Hydrological Cycle Accelerating?, Science, 298, 1345-1346.
·    Black, D. E., 2002, The Rains May Be A-Comin’, Science, 297, 528-529.
·    Akimoto, H., 2003, Global Air Quality and Pollution, Science, 302, 1716-1719

Chapter 5 – Winds and the Global Circulation System
·    Mlot, C., 2003, The Perfect Windstorm Study, BioScience, 53, 624-629.
·    List, R., 2004, Weather Modification – A Scenario for the Future, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, January 2004, 51-63.
·    Lyons, W. A., Nelson, T. E., Williams, E. R., Cramer, J. A., and Turner, T. R., 1998, Enhanced Positive Cloud-to-Ground Lightning in Thunderstorms Ingesting Smoke from Fires, Science, 282, 77-80.
·    Clark, P. U., Pisias, N. G., Stocker, T. F., and Weaver, A. J., 2002, The role of the thermohaline circulation in abrupt climate change, Nature, 415, 863-869
·    Weaver, A. J. and Hillaire-Marcel, C., 2004, Global Warming and the Next Ice Age, Science, 304, 400-402. [note: this research was the subject of a recent Quirks and Quarks broadcast on CBC and aims to “debunk” some of the ideas presented in a new movie “The Day After Tomorrow”].
·    Fedorov, A. V., and Philander, S. G., Is El Nino Changing?, Science, 288, 1997-2002.
·    Siegert, F., Ruecker, G., Hinrichs, A., and Hoffmann, A. A., 2001, Increased damage from fires in logged forests during droughts caused by El Nino, Nature, 414, 437-440.

Chapter 6 – Weather Systems
·    Riordan, A. J., 2003, Forecasting for a Remote Island: A Class Exercise, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, June 2003, 777-784
·    McDonald, J. R., 2001, T. Theodore Fujita: His Contribution to Tornado Knowledge through damage documentation  and the Fujita Scale, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, January 2001, 63-72
·    Pfost, R. L., 2003, Reassessing the Impact of Two Historical Florida Hurricanes, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, October 2003, 1367-1372
·    Goldenberg, S. B., Landsea, C. W., Mestas-Nunez, A. M., and Gray, W. M., 2001, The Recent Increase in Atlantic Hurricane Activity: Causes and Implications, Science, 293, 474-479.
·    Knutson, T. R., Tuleya, R. E., and Kurihara, Y., 1998, Simulated Increase of Hurricane Intensities in a CO2- Warmed Climate, Science, 279, 1018-1020.

Chapter 7- The Global Scope of Climate, Low-latitude, mid-latitude and high-latitude climates
·    Sanderson, M., 1999, The Classification of Climates from Pythagoras to Koeppen, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, April 1999, 669-673.
·    Tiffen, M. and Mortimore. M., 2002, Questioning desertification in dryland sub-Saharna African, Natural Resources Forum, 26, 218-233.
·    Prospero, J. M. and Lamb, P. J., 302, African Droughts and Dust Transport to the Caribbean: Climate Change Implications, Science, 302, 1024-1027.
·    Moritz, R. E., Bitz, C. M. and Steig, E. J., 2002, Dynamics of Recent Climate Change in the Arctic, Science, 297, 1497-1502.

Chapter 8 – Biogeographic Processes
·    Jenkins, 2003, Prospects for Biodiversity, Science, 302, 1175-1177
·    Balirwa, J. S., Chapman, C. A., Chapman, L. J., Cowx, I. G., Geheb, K., Kaufman, L., Lowe-McConnell, R. H., Seehausen, O., Wanink, J. H., Welcomme, R. L., and Witte, F., 2003, Biodiversity and Fishery Sustainability in the Lake Victoria Basin: An Unexpected Marriage?, BioScience, 53, 703-715.
·    Wootton, J. T., 2002, Mechanisms of successional dynamics: Consumers and the rise and fall of species dominance, Ecological Research, 17, 249-260.
·    Lovett, R. S., 2000, Mount St. Helens, Revisited, Science, 288, 1578-1580.
·    Hunt, J. H., 2003, Cryptic Herbivores of the Rainforest Canopy, Science, 300, 916-917.
·    Nemani, R. R., Keeling, C. D., Hashimoto, H., Jolly, W. M., Piper, S. C., Tucker, C. J., Myeni, R. B. and Running, S. W., 2003, Climate-Driven Increases in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 1982 to 1999, Science, 300, 1560-1563.
·    Silliman, B. R. and Bertness, M. D., 2002, A trophic cascade regulates salt marsh primary production, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99, 10500-10505.
·    Grace, J., 2004, Understanding and managing the global carbon cycle, Journal of Ecology, 92, 189-202.

Chapter 9 – Global Ecosystems
·    Roberts, S. J., 2000, Tropical Fire Ecology, Progress in Physical Geography, 24, 281-288.
·    Hansen, A. J., Neilsen, R. P., Dale, V. H., Flather, C. H., Iverson, L. R., Currie, D. J., Shafer, S., Cook, R., and Bartlein, P. J., 2001, Global Change in Forests: Responses of Species, Communities, and Biomes, BioScience, 51, 765-779.
·    Woodruff, D. S., 2001, Declines of Biomes and Biotas and the Future of Evolution, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98, 5471-5476.
·    Seastedt, T. R., Bowman, W. D., Caine, T. N., McKnight, D., Townsend, A., and Williams, M. W., 2004, The Landscape Continuum: A Model for High Elevation Ecosystems, 54, 111-121.

Chapter 10 – Soil Systems
·    Scull, P., Franklin, J., Chadwick, O. A. and McArthur, D., 2003, Predictive Soil Mapping: a Review, Progress in Physical Geography, 27, 171-197.
·    Schubert, S. D., Suarez, M. J., Pegion, P. J., Koster, R. D. and Bacmeister, J. T., 2004, On the cause of the 1930s Dust Bowl, Science, 303, 1855-1859.
·    Mills, A. J. and Fey, M. V., 2003, Declining soil quality in South Africa: effects of land use on soil organic matter and surface crusting, South African Journal of Sciences, 99, 429-436.
·    Wagner, W., Noll, J., Borgeaud, M. and Rott, H., 1999, Monitoring Soil Moisture over the Canadian Prairies with the ERS Scatterometer, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 37, 206-216

Chapter 11 – Earth Materials and the Cycle of Rock Change
·    Jablonksi, D., 1999, The Future of the Fossil Record, Science, 284, 2114-2116.
·    Frimmel, H. E., 2002, Genesis of the World’s Largest Gold Deposits, Science, 297, 1815-1817.
·    Rona, P. A., 2003, Resources of the Sea Floor, Science, 299, 673-674.
·    Renne, P. R., 2002, Flood Basalts – Bigger and Badder, Science, 296, 1812-1813.

Chapter 12 – The Lithosphere and the Tectonic System
·    Torsvik, T. H., 2003, The Rodinia Jigsaw Puzzle, Science, 300, 1379-1381.
·    Tackley, P. J., 2000, Mantle Convection and Plate Tectonics: Toward an Integrated Physical and Chemical Theory, Science, 288, 2002-2007.
·    Buffett, B. A., 2000, Earth’s Core and the Geodynamo, Science, 2007-2012.
·    Anderson, D. L., 2001, Top-Down Tectonics?, Science, 293, 2016-2018
·    Rogers, G. and Dragert, H., 2003, Episodic Tremor and Slip on the Cascadia Subduction Zone: The Chatter of Silent Slip, Science, 300, 1942-1943.

Chapter 13 – Volcanic and Tectonic Landforms
·    Oppenheimer, C., 2003, Climatic, environmental and human consequences of the largest known historic eruption: Tambora volcano (Indonesia) 1815, Progress in Physical Geography, 27, 230-259.
·    Bohncke, B. and Neri, M., 2003, Cycles and trends in the recent eruptive behaviour of Mount Etna (Italy), Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 40, 1405-1411.
·    Stone, R., 2003, Bracing for the Big One on Montserrat, Science, 299, 2027-2030. [note: not peer-reviewed but a useful news article].
·    Wolfe, C. J., Okubo, P. G., and Shearer, P. M., 2003, Mantle Fault Zone Beneath Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, Science, 300, 478-480.
·    Frankel, A. D., 1999, How Does The Ground Shake?, Science, 283, 2032-2033.
·    Gupta, H. K., Purnachandra Rao, N., Rastogi, B. K., and Sarkar, D., 2001, The Deadliest Intraplate Earthquake, Science, 291, 2101-2102.

Chapter 14 – Weathering and Mass Wasting
·    Blaschke, P. M., Trustrum, N. A., and Hicks, D. L., Impacts of Mass Movement Erosion on Land Productivity: A review, Progress in Physical Geography, 24, 21-51.
·    Mackay, J. R. and Burn, C. R., 2002, The first 20 years (1978-1979 to 1998-1999) of ice-wedge growth at the Illisarvik experimental drained lake site, western Arctic coast, Canada, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 39, 95-111.
·    Vandenberghe, J. and Woo, M., 2002, Modern and ancient periglacial river types, Progress in Physical Geography, 26, 479-506.
·    Nelson, F. E., Anisimov, O. A., and Shiklomanov, N. I., 2001, Subsidence risk from thawing permafrost, Nature, 410, 889-890.

Chapter 15 – The Cycling of Water on the Continents
·    Baker, A. and Genty, D., 1998, Environmental pressure on conserving cave speleothems: effects of changing surface land sue and increased cave tourism, Journal of Environmental Management, 53, 165-175.
·    Baker, V. R., 2002, The Study of Superfloods, Science, 295, 2379-2380.
·    Laronne, J. B. and Reid, I., 1993, Very high rates of bedload sediment transport by ephemeral desert rivers, Nature, 366, 148-150.
·    Veselic, M., 2003, Protection of Groundwater in Classical Karst Systems, Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry, 33, 327-332.

Chapter 16 – Fluvial Processes and Landforms
·    Hudson, P. F. and Kesel, R. H., 2000, Channel migration and meander-bend curvature in the lower Mississippi River prior to major human modification, Geology, 28, 531-534.
·    Parker, G., River meanders in a tray, Nature, 395, 111-112.
·    Bullard, J. E. and McTainsh, G. H., 2003, Aeolian-fluvial interactions in dryland environments: examples, concepts and Australia case study, Progress in Physical Geography, 27, 471-501.

Chapter 17 – Landforms and Rock Structure
·    Werner, B. T., 1999, Complexity in Natural Landform Patterns, Science, 284, 102-104
·    Merritts, D. and Hesterberg, T., 1994, Stream Networks and Long-term surface uplift in the New Madrid Seismic Zone, Science, 265, 1081, 1084.
·    Tate, N. J., Parsons, A. J. and Powell, D. M., 2004, Classics in Physical Geography: Strahler, A. N., 1954, Statistical analysis in geomorphic research, Progress in Physical Geography, 28, 125-129.

Chapter 18 – The Work of Waves and Wind
·    Day, C., 2004, Sea-level rise exacerbates coastal erosion, Physics Today, February 2004, 24-26.
·    Horn, D. P., 2002, Mesoscale Beach Processes, Progress in Physical Geography, 26, 271-289.
·    Stephenson, W. J., and Brander, R. W., 2003, Coastal geomorphology into the twenty-first century, Progress in Physical Geography, 27, 607-623.
·    Wolfe, S. A, Huntley, D. J., David, P. P., Ollerhead, J., Sauchyn, D. J., and MacDonald, G. M., 2001, Late 18th century drought-induced sand dune activity, Great Sand Hills, Saskatchewan, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 38, 105-117.
·    Nash, D. J., 2003, Arid geomorphology, Progress in Physical Geography, 27, 284-303

Chapter 19 – Glacier Systems and the Ice Age
·    Rignot, E. and Thomas, R. H., 2002, Mass Balance of Polar Ice Sheets, Science, 297, 1502-1506.
·    Colman, S. M., 2002, A Fresh Look at Glacial Floods, Science, 296, 1251-1252.
·    Lewis, D. H. and Smith, D. J., 2004, Little Ice Age glacial activity in Strathcona Provincial Park, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 41, 285-297.
·    Leverington, D. W. and Teller, J. T., 2003, Paleotopographic reconstructions of the eastern outlets of glacial Lake Agassiz, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 40, 1259-1278.
·    Glasser, N. F. and Bennett, M. R., 2004, Glacial erosional landforms: origins and significance for palaeoglaciology, Progress in Physical Geography, 28, 43-75.