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Atmospheric Phenomena: From Green Flashes to Red Sprites

Written on June 13, 2018.

– By Jim Young, RWDI and Jim Young Atmospheric Services Inc. – Summer is here with its long warm days and clear nights, for a lot of the time. And what could be better than an atmospheric...

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...

A panorama of the roof deck of the Ridge Laboratory taken late in the summer showing the air intake for the atmospheric sampler left of centre and the “penthouse” housing many upper atmosphere sounders on the right. (Photo credit: Pierre Fogal)

PEARL at the Pole: An Update on Canada’s Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory

Written on December 21, 2017.

– By the PAHA team* – The Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) at Eureka, Nunavut is Canada’s “PEARL near the Pole” – a scientific station fully equipped for specialised...

Nonlinear and Stochastic Climate Dynamics

Written on December 18, 2017.

– Review by André April, Canadian Ice Service, Ottawa – Edited by Christian L. E. Franzke and Terence J. O`Kane, Cambridge University Press 2017, Hardcover, 432 pages, ISBN 9781107118140, $177.95 – Nonlinear...

A Piece of History: The Canadian Chronometric Radiosonde

Written on October 19, 2017.

– By Kenneth A. Devine – While temperature profiles to the tropopause had been conducted in Canada for research purposes starting in 1911 (Devine & Strong, 2009), operational upper...

Image shows a section of a map of southern Canada, from west to east, coloured with various shades of grey, white, yellow, orange and red. The colours indicate the forecasted temperature for autumn 2017 in Canada, with the predominance of warmer colours indicating a strong probability that in most areas temperatures will be above normal.

Seasonal Outlook for the autumn 2017 (SON) based on CanSIPS forecast 31st August 2017

Written on September 1, 2017.

– By M. Markovic and K. Gauthier, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) Autumn forecast (September, October, November) for 2017 temperature and precipitation in Canada includes above normal...

Photograph of the Curiosity rover on Mars

Watching the Dust and Clouds Lazily Float by During a Martian Summer

Written on September 1, 2017.

– By J.E. Moores, C.L. Smith and C.L. Campbell, York University – A scientific rover named Curiosity has been trundling around on Mars for the past 5 years, taking images of the atmosphere...