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The unprecedented Pacific Northwest heatwave of June 2021

Written on May 25, 2023.

– By Cuiyi Fei, Rachel H. White, Chris Rodell – The extreme heatwave that occurred at the end of June 2021 across the Pacific Northwest region of North America was so unprecedented and...

Obituary notice for Dr. Peter Summers

Written on May 6, 2023.

Husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, scientist, tennis and badminton player, bridge player, world traveller and dessert lover. Peter passed away peacefully and surrounded by his children...

Towards the “Perfect” Weather Warning

Written on April 13, 2023.

– By Brian Golding – This book is a product of the 10-year High Impact Weather (HIWeather) project of the World Weather Research Programme in World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), drawing...

Satellite SSS : A Monitoring Tool for the Gulf of St. Lawrence?

Written on April 2, 2023.

– By Jacqueline Dumas, Julien Laliberté, and Denis Gilbert – The use of satellite remote sensing technology to monitor the Gulf of St. Lawrence was first demonstrated in 1961 when TIROS-2...

Keeping Watch Over Prince Edward Island’s Coastline

Written on February 21, 2023.

– UPEI Climate Lab team led by Dr. Adam Fenech, and including Dr. Xander Wang, Don Jardine, Ross Dwyer, Andy MacDonald, Luke Meloche, and Catherine Kennedy – Coastal erosion is the primary...

Will Greenland be really ‘Green’ after losing its ice mass?

Written on January 30, 2023.

-By Xander Wang, Pelin Kinay, Aminur Shah, and Quan Dau- Many people believe that, due to global warming, a longstanding myth about Greenland might be the reality – a ‘green’ land, resembling its name...

Bias Correcting Surface Snow Water Equivalent Estimates using Machine Learning

Written on January 22, 2023.

-By Fraser King- During Canada’s cold winters, snowpacks that aren’t consistently plowed or hovelled slowly grow in size and density. From a water-balance perspective, these snowpacks act as ephemeral...

Collaborating to Support Canadian Resiliency at CatIQ Connect

Written on January 9, 2023.

-By Caroline Floyd- Hurricane Fiona, flooding in British Columbia, massive hailstorms in Calgary – catastrophic events have increasingly captured Canadian headlines in recent years. Insured losses to...

The importance of coastal foredunes as a nature-based solution for shoreline protection: What Hurricane Fiona tells us

Written on December 16, 2022.

-By Jeff Ollerhead, Robin Davidson-Arnott, and Bernard O. Bauer- Figure 1: A) Foredune erosion at the Greenwich Dunes eastern beach access post-Fiona (photo taken west to east). The inset shows the...

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