Early Exploration of the High Latitude Stratosphere Part I: Pre-World War II Era
WRITTEN BY CMOS BULLETIN SCMO ON AUGUST 18, 2022. POSTED IN ATMOSPHERE, PAST ISSUES, WHAT’S CURRENT.
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An overview of field work conducted on high-latitude mineral dust aerosol in the Ä’äy Chù Valley in Kluane National Park, Yukon
– 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 atmosphere,...
The troposphere is expanding due to anthropogenic climate change
– 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 transition...
André Robert: One of the very first scientists to successfully perform a simulation of the atmosphere’s general circulation at the global scale using a computer model
– By Christopher Smith –
Background
Dr. André Robert (April 28, 1929 – November 18, 1993) was a Canadian meteorologist and research pioneer in modelling the Earth’s atmospheric circulation....
A field laboratory class from home to study snow characteristics
– By Julie Mireille Thériault, Émilie Gauthier, Mathieu Lachapelle and René Laprise –
Learning atmospheric sciences
A degree in atmospheric sciences can lead to a variety of professions...
Micrometeorology Field Season in the NWT, 2021: A Photo Story
– By Kathryn Bennett –
Feather Frost or Frost Flowers (Crystallofolia)
– By Douw Steyn, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. –
The attached photographs show an instance of the rare phenomenon of feather...
Canada’s Top Ten Weather Stories of 2020
– By David Phillips –
This article was first published by Environment and Climate Change Canada.
Prologue 2020
Canada is warming at nearly twice the global rate with parts of western and northern...
Black History Month for the Sciences
On May 25, 2020, Amy Cooper—a white Canadian woman—called the police on Christan Cooper—a black birdwatcher—after he asked her to leash her dog in an on-leash part of Central Park, New York City. From...