The multi-corer is an instrument designed to collect sediments in the seafloor. It is equipped with eight arms, each 1m in length, and provides several surface sediment cores in a single deployment of the instrument.
The picture was taken on the Polarstern research icebreaker during a mission to the Arctic Ocean in September-October 2018. Photo Credit: Charles Brunette, AOS PhD Student.
'Scientific interactions between McGill and ECCC form a continuous cycle in which research findings are incorporated into forecasting applications, which are thereafter evaluated through the lens of the original research objectives.' --from 'Metamorphosis of the solitary genius' Published on Nov 21 2019 on the CANADA'S INNOVATION LEADERS.
First climate sentinel installed for our Adaptable Earth Observation System project. It is located at the Gault natural reserve, next to the new building EOS / Gault lab.
This climate sentinel is equipped with solar panels to reduce the amount of electricity used. It is equipped with a very complete sets of sensors and will send the data to our servers located in the Burnside building.
Results of a new, two-step variational precipitation retrieval from Purnell and Kirshbaum (Monthly Weather Review, 2018). The retrieval performed on 18 precipitation events during the Olympics Experiment (OLYMPEX) field campaign in Washington State (2015-16). Six events were analyzed for three different synoptic categories: (a) warm-frontal (WF), (b) warm-sector (WS), and (c) postfrontal (PF) precipitation. See Highlights section for a link to this article.
The distribution of TOA net SW radiation anomaly and its components decomposed by the kernel (middle row) and Neural Network (NN) (bottom row) methods in September, 2012, when Arctic sea ice extent reaches a record low. (Zhu, T., Y. Huang and H. Wei, (2019), Estimating climate feedbacks using a neural network, J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos. Tingting Zhu is a visiting student under Prof. Yi Huang)
Seasonal Ice Mass Balance Buoy (SIMB) deployed on landfast sea ice near Nain. The SIMB is equipped with top and bottom acoustic sonars to detect the snow surface and the bottom of the sea ice layer.
This project is a collaboration between the Canadian Ice Service (Adrienne Tivy), McGill University (Bruno Tremblay) and the Nain Research Center (Joey Angnatok). Photo Credit: Charles Brunette, AOS PhD Student.
In the Field
From a recent visit to Amundsen in the Canadian Arctic by Olivier Asselin
Research
Research at our department is organised into four themes. Our four themes span a broad range of research topics canvassing topics in the study of weather and weather forecasting as well as pressing current environmental and climate issues. Many faculty members work covers more than one theme, encouraging cross-disciplinary collaboration. Click on links provided below to find out more.
