Staff at Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis

Staff

Akingunola, Ayodeji
Physics Science Specialist

• Atmospheric modelling

Anstey, James
Research Scientist

• Climate variability and change
• Tropical-extratropical teleconnections
• Atmospheric modelling

Arora, Vivek
Research Scientist

• Carbon-climate interactions in Earth system models (ESMs)
• Parameterization of terrestrial biogeochemical processes in ESMs
• Role of vegetation in influencing climate

Blackport, Russell
Postdoctoral Fellow

Cole,  Jason
Research Scientist

• Development of Canadian Atmospheric Model
• Physical parameterizations
• Interaction of radiation with clouds and aerosols
• Space-based Earth Observations (radiation, clouds and aerosols)

Farahani, Ellie
CCCma Manager

• Climate change mitigation options and their related policies
• Sustainability planning, best practices and energy management

Flato, Greg
Research Scientist

• Sea-ice and climate modelling

Fyfe, John
Senior Research Scientist

• Large-scale climate variability and change with an emphasis on polar regions

Gillett, Nathan
Research Scientist

• Climate change attribution
• Atmospheric circulation changes
• The influence of ozone depletion on climate

Hanna, Sarah
Physical Science Specialist

• Aerosol model development
• Interactions between air quality and climate

Jiao, Yanjun
Physical Scientist

• Regional climate modelling

Kharin, Slava
Research Scientist

• Climate variability and predictability
• Climate extremes and their future changes

Lazare, Mike
Senior Climate Research Meteorologist

• Development, optimization, implementation and maintenance of CCCma atmospheric models

Lee, Warren
Ocean Modelling Analyst

• Ocean and Earth systems model development and support
• Earth system model application support

Lee, Woosung
Seasonal Forecasting Development Specialist

• Climate modeling and data analysis
• Long-Range forecast

Li, Jiangnan
Research Scientist

• Radiative transfer parameterization

• Attribution of climate change

Merryfield, William
Research Scientist

• Seasonal to decadal climate prediction
• Climate variability and change

Plummer, David
Research Scientist

• Interactions between climate change and the chemical composition of the atmosphere
• The future evolution of the stratospheric ozone layer
• The effects of climate change and emissions on air quality

Qian, Minwei
Physical Scientist

• Computational fluid dynamics
• Regional climate modelling

Saenko, Oleg
Research Scientist

• Ocean circulation and climate

Scinocca,  John
Research Scientist

• Atmospheric Dynamics
• Physical parameterizations
• Global and Regional Climate Modelling

• Open source development
• Technical development of the Canadian Earth System Model
• High performance computing
• Numerical methods for earth system models

Shao, Andrew
Earth System Coupling Scientist

• Modeling the atmosphere, ice, ocean boundary layers as a multirate system
• Numerical methods and parameterizations for general circulation models
• Effects of oceanic ventilation on the oceanic biogeochemistry
• Scalable, open-source climate model components and analysis software for novel high-performance computing architectures

Sigmond, Michael
Research Scientist

• Climate projections
• Seasonal predictions (sea ice, stratosphere)
• Attribution of past climate trends
• Atmospheric circulation
• Climate impacts of stratospheric ozone

Sospedra-Alfonso, Reinel
Research Scientist

• Seasonal to decadal climate predictability and prediction
• Climate variability and change
• Cryosphere and climate interaction

Swart, Neil
Research Scientist

• Development of the Canadian Earth System Model and related systems
• Climate change and variability, including atmosphere, ocean and sea-ice
• Ocean biogeochemistry and global carbon cycle
• Open standards climate software and high performance computing

Von Salzen, Knut
Research Scientist

• Interactions between air quality and climate
• Aerosol chemical and microphysical processes
• Physical parameterizations

• Short-lived climate forcers
• Interactions between climate change and air quality

• Model development and analysis
• Stratospheric dynamics

Yang, Duo
Climate Modelling Scientist

• Ocean and coupled modelling
• Earth system model application support

Associates

Berkley, Mike
Shared Services Canada

• Linux computing support

Boer, George
Visiting Scientist

• Climate modelling and analysis including climate prediction from seasons to centuries

Cannon, Alex
Research Scientist, Climate Data and Analysis Section

• Climate extremes and their future changes
• Statistical bias correction/downscaling
• Machine learning and predictive uncertainty

• Ocean biogeochemical cycles

Denman, Ken
Emeritus Scientist, University of Victoria

• Ocean biogeochemical cycles and their role in climate change
• How planktonic ecosystems will change in structure and function in a changing climate
• The role of Langmuir Circulation in upper ocean mixing rates and the ‘recent light history’ of phytoplankton

• Physical parameterizations
• Atmospheric Modelling

• Land surface modelling
• Wetland methane dynamics
• High-latitude processes

• Land surface modelling
• Shrub tundra processes

Petersen, Tiffany

• Finance and Administration

• Land-Atmosphere Interactions
• Land Surface Modelling
• Model Benchmarking

• Ocean and sea-ice biogeochemical cycles
• Sea-ice/ocean/biogeochemical modelling
• Climate change impacts on Arctic marine ecosystems