How are we doing weather forecasts? The Canadian recipe
| dc.contributor.author | Gagnon, Normand | |
| dc.contributor.author | Brunet, Gilbert | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-31T16:43:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-03-31T16:43:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2026 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Normand Gagnon, acting director of the Meteorological Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), and Dr. Gilbert Brunet, a retired ECCC meteorologist whose career spans over three decades of leadership, research and international collaboration, present "How are we doing weather forecasts? The Canadian recipe." Weather forecasting has evolved greatly in the last decades thanks to increased model realism, computer power and enhanced remote sensing observations. The process of forecasting the atmosphere behavior is complex and it needs big computers to be able to tackle this non-linear process in time to deliver timely useful forecast. The quality of the weather outlooks has improved significantly over the last decades in a quiet revolution. Canadian scientists were pioneers in this endeavor and the Canadian Meteorological Centre in Dorval is among the top 5 best centers in the world. In this talk, the presenters will go thru the actual steps needed to do numerical weather forecasting from ingesting input observations data, preparing the initial conditions and then go forward in the future with a numerical model. The impact of the arrival of Artificial Intelligence in the fields will be discussed as well. There will be a special emphasis on the Canadian contributions to numerical weather and environmental fields. | |
| dc.description.reviewstatus | Unreviewed | |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Faculty | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1828/23536 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC) | |
| dc.subject | #video recording | |
| dc.subject | Environment and Climate Change Canada | |
| dc.subject | Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC) | |
| dc.subject | Pacific Climate Seminar Series | |
| dc.subject | UN SDG 13: Climate Action | |
| dc.title | How are we doing weather forecasts? The Canadian recipe | |
| dc.type | Video |