Canada’s Top Ten Weather Stories of 2018
– By David Phillips, Environment and Climate Change Canada –
Weather changes in Canada are happening abruptly not subtly, rapidly not gradually.
Message from the CMOS President for December 2018: Anthropogenic climate change and environmental sustainability
– By Paul Kushner, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Toronto and CMOS President –
To complete our review of the stewardship themes I identified at the time of the Halifax congress, it’s...
Catastrophes and The Insurance Industry
– by Laura Twidle, Director of Catastrophic Loss Analysis, Catastrophe Indices & Quantification Inc. (CatIQ) –
Catastrophes not only disrupt communities and people’s lives, but they...
Seasonal Outlook for the winter 2018/19 (DJF) based on the official CanSIPS forecast issued on the 30th Nov. 2018
– By M. Markovic, B. Merryfield, K. Gauthier, M. Alarie, Environment and Climate Change Canada –
Seasonal Outlook (December, January, February) for 2018/19 temperature and precipitation in Canada...
CMOS Statement on the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C
The Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) is the national society dedicated to advancing atmospheric, oceanic, and related environmental sciences in Canada. CMOS has more than 800...
A Look at Ontario’s Climate of the Future with the Ontario Climate Data Portal (OCDP)
– by Huaiping Zhu1, Ziwang Deng1, Jinliang Liu2, Xin Qiu3, Xiaoyu Chen1, Xiaolan Zhou1 –
Climate change is undeniable, and scientists around the world agree that in the coming decades the...
Message from the CMOS President for October 2018:
Standing Together: Effective Advocacy for CMOS
– By Paul Kushner, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Toronto and CMOS President –
This month I want to focus on the stewardship theme of advocacy for our CMOS community. Advocacy...
IFMS: Uniting Meteorologists Around the World
– An Interview with Harinder Ahluwalia, IFMS President, by Bulletin Editor Sarah Knight –
What does the IFMS do?
The International Forum of Meteorological Societies (IFMS) represents National...
Using Back-Trajectories to Trace the Origins of Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5)
– 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...