Author: CMOS Bulletin SCMO

An overview of field work conducted on high-latitude mineral dust aerosol in the Ä’äy Chù Valley in Kluane National Park, Yukon

Written on August 7, 2022.

– By Arnold Downey – Mineral Dust Aerosol (MDA) is known to have an important influence on several environmental topics. Like all aerosol, MDA plays a role in the radiative balance of the...

Thermal stratification in lakes determines where fish are, but also modifies how well acoustic telemetry can detect them

Written on July 31, 2022.

– By Mathew Wells, Yulong Kuai, and Yulu Shi – The habitat usage of fish in large lakes and the coastal ocean is in part determined by thermal stratification, whereby fish choose regions that match...

Monitoring climate change with the support of local communities in the Northwest Territories

Written on July 26, 2022.

– By Andy Vicente-Luis, Emma Riley, Elyn Humphreys, Philip Marsh, William Quinton, Oliver Sonnentag – Arctic-boreal regions are warming rapidly, with increases in surface air temperatures over...

Cities drive global warming, but change is possible

Written on July 18, 2022.

-By Hind Al-Abadleh- Urban areas around the world are responsible for more than two-thirds of global greenhouse gases. At the same time, the impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly...

Ship with a soul: a brief history of CSS/CCGS Hudson (1963-2022)

Written on July 10, 2022.

– By Donald Gordon- After serving the Canadian oceanographic community with distinction for almost sixty years, the CSS/CCGS Hudson is being retired. Her history and that of the Bedford...

Assessing Drift and Dispersion in Models of the St. Lawrence Estuary

Written on July 4, 2022.

– By Donovan Allum – 1. Introduction The largest estuary in the world is the St. Lawrence Estuary and connects the – aptly named – St. Lawrence River to the Gulf of St....

Timothy R. Parsons – Obituary for the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society

Written on June 27, 2022.

Professor Timothy (Tim) R. Parsons (OC, FSRC) passed away in hospital on April 11, 2022, in the company of his family. Tim was one of Canada’s most eminent marine scientists and recipient of many...

Measurement and Modelling of Snow in Arctic Tundra and Taiga Biomes: A Photo Story

Written on June 18, 2022.

– By Georgina Woolley –

The troposphere is expanding due to anthropogenic climate change

Written on May 30, 2022.

– By Jane Liu, Lingyun Meng, David W. Tarasick, William J. Randel, Andrea K. Steiner, Hallgeir Wilhelmsen, Lei Wang, Leopold Haimberger, and Wayne K. Hocking – The tropopause is a...