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Program of 2020 CMOS Virtual Congress / Programme Du Congrès Local Organizing Committee 54th CMOS Congress, May 24-28, 2020 – Ottawa as of March 3, 2020 Chair; Bruce Angle [email protected] Administration Savithri Narayanan Treasurer [email protected] Bruce Ramsay [email protected] Secretary Ron Huibers [email protected] Registration Suzanne Belisle [email protected] Robert Levevbre [email protected] Facilities Bruce Ramsay [email protected] Mike Manore [email protected] IT / Audio-visual Liaison Julie Dion [email protected] Translation Dawn Conway [email protected] Social Programme Ron Huibers [email protected] Student Programme Paul Lyon [email protected] Volunteer Coordinator Paul Pestieau [email protected] Food and Beverage Communications Dave Jackson [email protected] Signage Mike Manore; [email protected] Web and App Chantal McCartin; [email protected] Norman Naylor [email protected] Media relations /Communications / Carol Anne Black Social Media – FB and Twitter [email protected] Scientific Programme Committee Dr. Gordon McBean [email protected] Co-Chairs - SPC Dr. Len Barrie [email protected] Outreach Partnerships Bob Jones [email protected] Exhibitors Oscar Koren [email protected] Dawn Conway [email protected] Public Lecture U Ottawa Maryam Yousefi [email protected] Student Representative Carleton U ada.loewen [email protected] Ann McMillan [email protected] Opening ceremony Ex Officio members Dawn Conway [email protected] CMOS Ottawa Centre Chair Gordon Griffith [email protected] CMOS Executive Director Kim Strong [email protected] CMOS President CMOS Science Committee co- Clark Richards [email protected] chair Reps from other Interested Orgs Mary Sayewich [email protected] Ottawa Tourism [email protected] CWRA Ray Desjardins [email protected] AAFC Liaison Catherine Champagne Canadian Society for Agriculture [email protected] and Forest Meteorology (CSAFM) Under consideration CSA Liaison Bill Pugsley; [email protected] CACOR Andrew Stewart [email protected] DFO Science Liaison Daria Bradbury [email protected] DFO - CCG Liaison Daniel Chretien DMetOc [email protected] Martin Couet [email protected] ECCC, Client Services, Aviation Hoy Chow [email protected] and Defence Services NRCan, ECCC, CGU, CACOR etc. LAC members unassigned; Tom Zagon, Hoy Chow Student representatives; François Lapointe - [email protected], Maryam Yousefi - [email protected], Ada Loewen - [email protected], Kenny Bala - [email protected] Ex Officio; Qing Liao [email protected] or [email protected] Members at large; Bob Jones, Leslie Malone, Ted Yuzyk Science Programme Committee; Co-Chairs Gordon McBean, Len Barrie; Members, Ray Desjardins, Ann McMillan (Arctic theme), Jackie Dawson, Clark Richards, John Pomeroy and Ken Denman TIME ROOM SESSION CHAIR May 26, 2020 Tuesday - Day 1 11:00 - 12:30 Session 2 2010120 The Changing Arctic Atmosphere - Part 1 Kimberly Strong James Drummond 14:00 - 16:00 Publication Committee Meeting Douw Steyn 13:00 - 14:30 Session 2 2010121 The Changing Arctic Atmosphere - Part 2 Kimberly Strong James Drummond 15:00 - 16:30 Session 1 2010370 Advances in Remote Sensing Adam Bourassa May 27, 2020 Wednesday - Day 2 11:00 - 12:30 Session 3 2010110 Land, Agriculture and Climate - Part 1 Shannon Brown Catherine Champagne 13:00 - 14:30 Session 3 2010111 Land, Agriculture and Climate - Part 2 Alexander Moravek Catherine Champagne 15:00 - 16:30 Session 3 2010112 Land, Agriculture and Climate - Part 3 Elizabeth Pattey Catherine Champagne May 28, 2020 Thursday - Day 3 11:00 - 12:30 Session 5 2010130 Climate Variability and Predictability - Part 1 Hai Lin 13:00 - 14:30 Session 5 2010131 Climate Variability and Predictability - Part 2 Bin Yu 15:00 - 16:30 Session 4 2010020 Precipitation Observations in the Arctic Eva Mekis Gabrielle Gascon Dominique Brunet May 29, 2020 Friday - Day 4 11:00 - 12:30 Session 6 2010070 Actual climatology and anticipated changes in winter precipitation (solid, mixed Sebastien Biner and liquid) and hail and their impacts - Part 1 Dominique Paquin 13:00 - 14:30 Session 6 2010071 Actual climatology and anticipated changes in winter precipitation (solid, mixed Sebastien Biner and liquid) and hail and their impacts - Part 2 Dominique Paquin June 01, 2020 Monday - Day 5 11:00 - 12:30 Session 7 2010040 Northern tornadoes - Part 1 David Sills 13:00 - 14:30 Session 9a 2010360 Coastal Oceanography and Inland Waters - Part 1 Jinyu Sheng Guoqi Han 13:00 - 14:30 Session 7 2010041 Northern tornadoes - Part 2 David Sills 15:00 - 16:30 Session 9a 2010361 Coastal Oceanography and Inland Waters - Part 2 Jinyu Sheng Guoqi Han June 02, 2020 Tuesday - Day 6 13:00 - 14:30 Session 9b 2010362 Coastal Oceanography and Inland Waters - Part 3 Jinyu Sheng Guoqi Han 15:00 - 16:30 Session 9b 2010363 Coastal Oceanography and Inland Waters - Part 4 Jinyu Sheng Guoqi Han June 03, 2020 Wednesday - Day 7 13:00 - 14:30 Session 10 2010030 Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics - Part 1 Marek Stastna Adam Monahan 15:00 - 16:30 Session 10 2010031 Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics - Part 2 Adam Monahan Marek Stastna June 04, 2020 Thursday - Day 8 11:00 - 12:30 Session 11 2010350 Interdisciplinary and climate research on resilience - Part 1 Gordon McBean 13:00 - 14:30 Session 11 2010351 Interdisciplinary and climate research on resilience - Part 2 Gordon McBean June 08, 2020 Monday - Day 9 11:00 - 12:45 Session 13 2010150 Building resiliency in Health and Environment in a changing Climate Melissa MacDonald 11:00 - 12:30 Session 12 2010190 Ocean-sea ice interaction in a changing climate: Environmental and societal John Falkingham impacts - Part 1 Angela Cheng 13:00 - 14:30 Session 13 2010010 Flood risks under climate change Xander Wang 13:00 - 14:30 Session 12 2010191 Ocean-sea ice interaction in a changing climate: Environmental and societal John Falkingham impacts - Part 2 Angela Cheng 15:00 - 16:30 Session 17 2010250 Changing Arctic: Science and Policy Studies David Fissel Helen Joseph June 09, 2020 Tuesday - Day 10 11:00 - 12:30 Session 15 2010080 Earth System Models As Tools For Societal Resilience - Part 1 Paul Kushner Kirsten Zickfeld 13:00 - 14:30 Session 15 2010081 Earth System Models As Tools For Societal Resilience - Part 2 Christopher Fletcher Nathan Gillett June 11, 2020 Thursday - CMOS Prizes and Awards Celebration 17:00 - 18:00 2020 CMOS Prizes and Awards Celebration Kimberly Strong Denis Bourque June 15, 2020 Monday - Day 11 11:00 - 12:30 Session 16 2010210 Climate Change information supporting resilient infrastructure - Part 1 Jeremy Fyke 13:00 - 14:30 Session 16 2010211 Climate Change information supporting resilient infrastructure - Part 2 Francis Zwiers 15:00 - 16:30 Session 16 2010212 Climate Change information supporting resilient infrastructure - Part 3 Xuebin Zhang June 23, 2020 Tuesday - CMOS Annual General Meeting 14:00 - 16:00 CMOS Annual General Meeting Kimberly Strong Gordon Griffith Exhibits - Virtual Congress 54 - Ottawa 2020 Les exposants - Congrès virtuel 54 - Ottawa 2020 The following Exhibitors had selected and pre-paid for a booth at the Delta Hotel and were planning to come. CMOS thanks them for their support. Les exposants suivants avaient sélectionné et payé à l'avance pour un stand d’exposition à l'hôtel Delta et prévoyaient venir. CMOS les remercie de leur soutien. Amundsen Science ASL Environmental Services ATS Services Limited CAF Weather Campbell Scientific CANDAC CMOS Hoskin Scientific Info-Electronics Systems Incorporated MEOPAR RBR Limited ROMOR ROPOS / CSSF VAISALA Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Virtual Congress 54 Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Virtual Congress 54 May 26 - June 15, 2020 file:///D|/BobsDocs/Congress2020/AA_Virtual_Congress/Abstracts/FullDocument/cover.htm[7/7/2020 7:41:46 AM] Session Day 1 - 26 May 2020 Convenors: Dr. Kimberly Strong, Dr. James Drummond The Arctic Atmosphere is changing rapidly due to many influences: changing composition, changing sea-ice, changing interactions with lower latitudes, and changing inputs from the land, snow, ice and oceans. The Arctic region is known to be fragile and small changes in these inputs can have large effects and can be amplified strongly through feedback mechanisms. At the same time, the annual polar light/dark cycle instead of the daily cycle means that the atmosphere reacts differently to changes than does the atmosphere at lower latitudes. And making measurements is difficult because of the harsh environment and sparse measurement locations. However understanding the changing Arctic atmosphere during both the summer and winter is an essential part of understanding the global atmosphere system. This session invites papers on all aspects of the Arctic atmosphere including new instruments, new measurements, new sites, and new modeling efforts, and especially new insights into this complex and important atmospheric system. Session: 2010120 The Changing Arctic Atmosphere - Part 1 L’atmosphère arctique en évolution - Partie 1 26/05/2020 11:00 ID: 10528 Invited session speaker The Potential for a New Era in Arctic Greenhouse Gas, Air Quality and Weather Observations from Space Ray Nassar 1 1 Environment and Climate Change Canada Presented by / Présenté par: Ray Nassar Contact: [email protected] The Arctic is changing and atmospheric observations from space offer new possibilities for observing and monitoring these changes that complement ground-based methods.
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