Climate

The Climate group carries out a wide range of research centered around four major themes/ areas.  The areas and the associated faculty members are:

Anthropogenic Global Warming

Faculty members: Ariya, Dufour, Gyakum, Huang, TanTremblay, Zuend, Fajber

The emission of carbon dioxide, aerosols, and other anthropogenic changes to the atmosphere composition result in global warming or climate change. The observation and modelling of the anthropogenic global warming, including the associated regional changes, is a scientific challenge because of the long timescales involved (decades to centuries or longer) and the presence of natural climate variations. McGill's Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences department has the most professors devoted to the physical science of climate change at the university.

 

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Observed surface temperature change ( Photo credit: UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report, https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/FigSPM-01.jpg)

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