Workshops

Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society 54th Congress, Session 11 – Interdisciplinary and Climate Research on Resilience

The global climate is changing, and Canada is warming at about twice the rate of the planet. The World Economic Forum 2020 Global Risk Report, for the next 10 years, ranked extreme weather events and climate action failure to mitigate and adapt as two of the most likely and impacting risks. In addition, all WEF reports over the past decade have identified water crises, food and human security as risks of highest concern into the future. To reduce the impacts on Canadians and all societies there is need to address these issues through interdisciplinary and climate research to inform the development of resilient societies. This session will have presentations on the extreme events in the future climate and an example of fundamental science on greenhouse effects. Presentations will address the need to understand our interactions with the natural environment including water and ecosystem services, and how the knowledge of Indigenous and Western science can work together to effectively address these issues. The importance of ensuring that Canadian National Climate Archives preserve reliable historical records and provide better access to and the communications of climate information and how the utilization of novel methods like machine learning that use new sources of data like social media can enhance weather and climate communication will be examined in other presentations. As the extreme events increase, there is need to go from risk to resilience and use science to build resilient communities. In addressing these issues effectively, estimates of the costs of climate change for Canada and a Canadian perspective on achieving net zero emissions and impacts are essential. The Session will provide interesting and varied scientific perspectives on Building Societal Resilience to Changing Weather, Climate and Environment, the overall theme of CMOS Congress 2020.

Presentations Part 1
Gordon McBean – Session Chair – Introduction
Francis Zwiers – Extremes in the future climate
Dawn Martin-Hill – Ohneganous: Water as the first environment.
Charles Lin – Climate Change, Energy, and Net Zero: A Canadian Perspective
Dale Beugin – Estimating the Costs of Climate Change for Canada
Natalie Carter – Collaborative survey development and training to understand Inuit uses and needs for weather, water, ice and climate information

Presentations Part 2
Roger Pulwarty – Going to extremes: from risk to resilience
Paul Kovacs – Using science to build resilient communities
Anna Deptuch-Stapf – Canadian National Climate Archive – Ensuring Reliable Records
Renee Sieber – Communicating Winter Storms via Natural Language Processing of Social Media
Paul Godin – Collision-Induced Absorption of CH4-CO2 and H2-CO2 Complexes and Their Effect on the Ancient Martian Atmosphere

Please acknowledge these presentations and their publication and reference them as: for example:
Zwiers, F., 2020: Extremes in the future climate. CMOS Congress 54. https://www.iclr.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Francis_Zwiers.pdf