A5046394991- Climate variability and models
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Climate change and permafrost
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Malaria Research and Control
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Aeolian processes and effects
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Tree Root and Stability Studies
Université du Québec à Montréal
2014-2024
Natural Resources Canada
2017
Canadian Forest Service
2017
Environment and Climate Change Canada
2006-2014
Impact
2006-2014
Climate Centre
2012-2013
McGill University
2007-2010
Ouranos
2006-2007
An urban heat island (UHI) is a relative measure defined as metropolitan area that warmer than the surrounding suburban or rural areas. The UHI nomenclature includes surface (SUHI) definition describes land temperature (LST) differences between and complexity involved in selecting an core external thermal reference for estimating magnitude of led us to develop new SUHIs excludes any comparison. these newly intra-urban islands (SIUHIs) based on various thresholds above spatial average LSTs...
The 2023 wildfire season in Québec set records due to extreme warm and dry conditions, burning 4.5 million hectares indicating persistent escalating impacts associated with climate change. This study reviews the unusual weather conditions that led fires, discussing their extensive on forest sector, fire management, boreal caribou habitats, particularly profound effects First Nation communities. wildfires significant declines productivity timber supply, overwhelming management resources,...
Abstract Changes in the extreme annual wind speed and around Gulf of St. Lawrence (Canada) were investigated through a nonstationary value analysis maximum 10-m obtained from North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) dataset as well observed data selected stations Environment Canada. A generalized distribution with time-dependent location scale parameters was used to estimate quantiles interest functions time at locations where significant trend detected. Bayesian method, likelihood...
The West Africa rainfall regime constitutes a considerable challenge for Regional Climate Models (RCMs) due to the complexity of dynamical and physical processes that characterise African Monsoon. In this paper, daily precipitation statistics are evaluated from contributions AFRICA-CORDEX experiment two ERA-Interim driven Canadian RCMs: CanRCM4, developed at Centre Modelling Analysis (CCCma) CRCM5, University Québec Montréal. These modelled against three gridded observed datasets—the Global...
Since the 1980s, populations of Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus have become established in south-eastern, eastern and central United States, extending to approximately 40°N. Ae. is a vector wide range human pathogens including dengue chikungunya viruses, which are currently emerging Caribbean Central America posing threat North America. The risk expanding its geographic under current future climate was assessed using three climatic indicators survival: overwintering conditions (OW), OW...
Global climate change, driven by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, is being particularly felt in Canada, with warming generally greater than the rest of world. Continued will be accompanied changes precipitation, which vary across country and seasons, increasing variability extreme weather events. Climate change likely drive emergence infectious diseases Canada northward spread from United States introduction elsewhere world via air sea transport. Diseases endemic to are also...
Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus are mosquito vectors of more than 22 arboviruses that infect humans.Our objective was to develop regional ecological niche models for in the conterminous United States Canada with current observed simulated climate land-use data using boosted regression trees (BRTs).We used BRTs assess climatic suitability mosquitoes under future projected climates.Models both species were mostly influenced by minimum daily temperature demonstrated high accuracy predicting...
Polar lows (PLs) are high-latitude intense maritime mesoscale weather systems that develop over open water near the sea ice margin or snow-covered continents during cold air outbreaks. PLs pose a threat to coastal and island communities, transportation offshore drilling platforms. mainly season their frequency exhibits large interannual variability. Observations from polar-orbiting satellites main source of observational data study since conventional observations sparse unevenly distributed...
Abstract The 2023 wildfire season in Québec set records due to extreme warm and dry conditions, burning 4.5 million hectares indicating persistent escalating impacts associated with climate change. study reviews the unusual weather conditions that led fires, discussing their extensive on forest sector, fire management, boreal caribou habitats, particularly profound effects First Nation communities. wildfires significant declines productivity timber supply, overwhelming management resources,...
This study investigates temporal evolution of 1‐, 7‐, 15‐, and 30‐day annual seasonal low‐flow regimes pristine river basins, included in the Canadian reference hydrometric basin network (RHBN), for three time frames: 1974–2003, 1964–2003, 1954–2003. For analysis, RHBN stations are classified into categories, which correspond to where low flows occur winter only, summer both seasons, respectively. Unlike previous studies RHBN, such classification is essential better understand interpret...
Droughts are among the world's most costly natural disasters and collectively affect more people than any other form of disaster. The Canadian Prairies very susceptible to drought have experienced this phenomenon many times. However, recent 1999–2005 Prairie was one worst meteorological, agricultural hydrologic droughts over instrumental record. It also had major socio-economic consequences, adding up losses in billions dollars. This focus Drought Research Initiative (DRI), first integrated...
BACKGROUND:The geographic range of the tick Amblyomma americanum, a vector diseases public health significance such as ehrlichiosis, has expanded from southeast United States northward during 20th century.Recently, populations this have been reported to be present close Canadian border in Michigan and New York states, but established are not known Canada.Previous research suggests that changing temperature patterns with climate change may influence life cycles permit expansion ticks northern...
Abstract Gridded estimates of precipitation using both satellite and observational station data are regularly used as reference products in the evaluation basic climate fields derived indices simulated by regional models (RCMs) over current period. One issues encountered RCM is fact that RCMs usually on different grids often at horizontal resolutions. A proper requires remapping a common grid. For or other fields, can be done two ways: either first-step operation original field with index...
This study presents the evaluation of simulations from two new Canadian regional climate models (RCMs), CanRCM4 and CRCM5, with a focus on models' skill in simulating daily precipitation indices Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI). The was carried out over past decades using several sets gridded observations that partially cover North America. RCMs were also compared four reanalysis products six other RCMs. different configurations RCM permit impact spatial resolutions, atmospheric...