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Lighthouse at night with dark clouds and lightning bolt

Message from the CMOS President: Resilience and Possibility in Challenging Times

Written on March 30, 2020.

– By Kimberly Strong, CMOS President and Professor & Chair, Department of Physics, University of Toronto – Dear CMOS Friends and Colleagues, As we go ‘to press’ with this issue of the CMOS Bulletin,...

Toward Quantifying Area-fugitive Greenhouse Gas
(GHG) Emissions from Open-pit Mines

Written on February 12, 2020.

– By Amir Nazem, Md. Rafsan Nahian, Ryan Byerlay, Manoj K. Nambiar, and Amir A. Aliabadi- Conventional techniques to quantify area-fugitive Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from an open-pit...

MOPITT – Measuring Pollution in the Troposphere for 20 Years

Written on December 21, 2019.

– By Prof. James R. Drummond, FRSC, Department of Physics & Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University – Most scientific projects run for a few years and then the people involved move...

Comparison of wind forecasts and observations at Lake Saint-Charles, Quebec: Results from 2018

Written on October 27, 2019.

– By Richard Leduc, AirMet Science Inc – In a recent CMOS Bulletin (Vol 46, No 4), the results of the comparison between the wind forecasts from the high resolution deterministic prediction...

Photo shows a smiliing Bob Kochtubajda, caucasian man, balding with glasses, for his article on the 2014 wildfire season in the NWT

Extreme 2014 wildfire season in the Northwest Territories

Written on April 29, 2019.

– By Bob Kochtubajda1, Ron Stewart2, Mike Flannigan3, Barrie Bonsal1, Charles Cuell4, and Curtis Mooney1 – 1. Environment and Climate Change Canada; 2. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg,...

Banner Image for Gilbert's article on the origins of PM2.5 into Quebec shows a sunset skyline with smokestacks

Using Back-Trajectories to Trace the Origins of Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5)

Written on September 25, 2018.

– By Jean-Philippe Gilbert, Richard Leduc, and Nathalie Barrette, Geography Department, University of Laval – Air pollution in the province of Québec, Canada is monitored daily to allow...

The MOPITT Terra spacecraft launch showing the Atlas IIAS lift-off on 18th December 1999 (Photo credit: Jim Drummond)

MOPITT, Atmospheric Pollution, and Me: A Personal Story

Written on February 2, 2018.

– By Jim Drummond, Principal Investigator for the Measurements Of Pollution in The Troposphere (MOPITT) instrument on the Terra satellite – It’s 1987 and I have just bought my first personal...

PEARL researchers open the dome of a sun tracking instrument on the roof of the Ridge Lab to perform maintenance.

Photo Story: “A Day in the Life” at PEARL, The Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory at Eureka

Written on December 28, 2017.

– Photos by Dan Weaver, University of Toronto – The Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) at Eureka, Nunavut is a scientific station fully equipped for specialised atmospheric...

Photo showing Fort McMurray wildfire, filling the horizon with a giant plume of smoke overhead. Did anthropogenic climate change increase the chance of this extreme wildfire?

Did Anthropogenic Climate Change Increase the Chance of an Extreme Wildfire in the Fort McMurray Area?

Written on September 1, 2017.

– By Megan Kirchmeier-Young, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, University of Victoria – A summary of a recent paper by Kirchmeier-Young et al. that describes an event attribution analysis...