Campus
- Mississauga (UTM)
Fields of Study
- Environment & Climate
- GIS, Spatial Analysis & Modelling
- Physical Geography
Areas of Interest
Assembly of long-term research data sets, radiative and turbulent energy exchange processes, glacier mass balance responses to climate change.
Biography
Born in Ottawa, raised in Montréal, educated at McGill then McMaster Universities, completing a doctorate in 1975, the topic of interest being heat transfer to melting glacier ice. Following my appointment to Geography at the Mississauga Campus, research into evaporation from wetlands was pursued before permanently returning to glaciological research in 1987, becoming best known for my discoveries on turbulent transfer in the glacier boundary-layer. Teaching interests included basic and advanced climatology, climate change, urban climatology, glaciology, the regional geography of Canada and specialized graduate level courses. My current efforts, in collusion with the Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan, are toward opening my research data on Peyto Glacier to others, a recent achievement in this regard being a paper in Earth Systems Science Data, myself among several supporting authours.
Publications
Dhiraj Pradhananga, John W. Pomeroy, Caroline Aubry-Wake, D. Scott Munro, Joseph Shea, Michael N. Demuth, Nammy Hang Kirat, Brian Menounos, Kriti Mukherjee 2021. Hydrometeorological, glaciological and geospatial research data from the Peyto Glacier Research Basin in the Canadian Rockies. Earth Syst. Sci. Data 13, 2875-2894, 2021.
D. Scott Munro. Delays of supraglacial runoff from differently defined microbasin areas on the Peyto Glacier. Hydrol. Proc. 25, 2893-2994, 2011.
D. Scott Munro. Revisiting bulk heat transfer on Peyto Glacier, Alberta, Canada, in light of the OG parameterization. J. Glaciol. 50(171), 590-600, 2004.