Boreal may refer to:
Climatology and geography
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Boreal (age)
In paleoclimatology of the Holocene, the Boreal was the first of the Blytt–Sernander sequence of north European climatic phases that were originally based on the study of Danish peat bogs, named for Axel Blytt and Rutger Sernander, who ...
, the first climatic phase of the Blytt-Sernander sequence of northern Europe, during the Holocene epoch
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Boreal climate
The subarctic climate (also called subpolar climate, or boreal climate) is a climate with long, cold (often very cold) winters, and short, warm to cool summers. It is found on large landmasses, often away from the moderating effects of an ocean, g ...
, a climate characterized by long winters and short, cool to mild summers
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Boreal ecosystem, an ecosystem with a subarctic climate in the Northern Hemisphere
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Boreal forest, a biome characterized by coniferous forests
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Boreal Sea
The Boreal Sea was a Mesozoic-era seaway that lay along the northern border of Laurasia.
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Historical oceans
Prehistory of the Arctic
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, a Mesozoic-era seaway
Companies and organizations
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Boreale
Les brasseurs du Nord ''(The Brewers of/from the North)'' is a brewery just north of Montreal, in Blainville, Quebec, Canada.
History
Founded in 1987 by three students at the UQAM (Laura Urtnowski, and brothers Bernard and Jean Morin), who paid ...
, a Quebec microbrewery
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Boreal Mountain Resort, a ski resort in the Lake Tahoe area of California
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Boreal Norge
Boreal Norge AS (formerly Veolia Transport Norge AS and Connex Norge AS) is a Norwegian public transport operator. Established as a subsidiary of CGEA Transport in 1999, it operates through its subsidiaries buses, ferries and trams in the counti ...
, a Norwegian public transport operator
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Collège Boréal, a francophone college in Ontario, Canada
Other uses
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Boreal (horse), a racehorse
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Carlo Boreal, a fictional character in Philip Pullman's ''His Dark Materials'' trilogy
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Le Boreal'', a French cruise ship
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Borealism, the exoticisation of the northern regions of the Earth and their cultures
See also
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Boreal forest of Canada, a region covering much of Canada's land area
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Boreal Forest Conservation Framework The Boreal Forest Conservation Framework, was adopted December 1, 2003 to protect the Canadian boreal forest. The vision set out in the Framework is "to sustain the ecological and cultural integrity of the Canadian boreal region, in perpetuity." I ...
, a plan to protect the Canadian boreal forest
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Borean languages
Borean (also Boreal or Boralean)http://ehl.santafe.edu/EhlforWeb.pdf is a hypothetical linguistic macrofamily that encompasses almost all language families worldwide except those native to the Americas, Africa, Oceania, and the Andaman Islands. ...
, a hypothetical language family comprising languages of the Northern Hemisphere
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Boreal Shield Ecozone (CEC), region of ancient rock in Canada
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Borea (disambiguation)
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Borealis (disambiguation)
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Boreas (disambiguation)
Boreas may refer to:
* Boreas (god), Greek god of the north wind
* Boreas (film), ''Boreas'' (film), 2006 Turkish short drama film
* Boreas (journal), ''Boreas'' (journal), academic journal that covers all branches of Quaternary research
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Septentrional
Septentrional, meaning "of the north", is a Latinate adjective sometimes used in English. It is a form of the Latin noun ''septentriones'', which refers to the seven stars of the ''Plough'' (Big Dipper), occasionally called the ''Septentrion'' ...
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