Acknowledgements

The authors thank the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency for its financial support for this research as part of its Research and Development Program. We also thank the attendees at a June 2003 workshop for their advice on this work while it was in its development stage. Thank you to an anonymous reviewer who provided very useful comments on a draft of the report, and to Dr. Brad Bass of the Adaptation and Impacts Research Group, Meteorological Services of Canada for helping to initiate the project.