Browsing University of Waterloo by Supervisor "Fletcher, Christopher"
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Climate Change Impacts on Snowmelt-Driven Streamflow in the Grand River Watershed: Implications for Water Resource Management
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-25)Climate change is one of the most significant global environmental drivers threatening the quality and quantity of future water resources. Global temperature increases will have significant effects on the hydrologic regime ... -
Developing a radar-based machine learning snowfall retrieval algorithm
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-03)As global temperatures continue to rise, snowfall patterns are expected to respond in a complex, nonlinear manner. Changes in the quantity of snowmelt-derived freshwater will impact global water-energy budgets, flood ... -
Future projections of rain-on-snow events and their spatiotemporal distribution across the Fraser River Basin, British Columbia, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2019-11-01)This study analyzes the projected changes of rain-on-snow (ROS) event characteristics (frequency, mechanism and runoff) for the future (2020 – 2099) period with respect to the historical period (1970 – 1999) over the Fraser ... -
High-Resolution Analysis of Snow Albedo Interactions in the Arctic
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-23)The Snow Albedo Feedback (SAF) is an important contributor to Arctic warming, however models disagree significantly on the strength of this effect. Previous work has investigated the influence of vegetation on surface ... -
Influence of the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability on the climate response to external forcing
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-29)Internal climate variability has been found to influence the climate response to an external forcing such as CO2. This thesis investigates the influence of the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability (AMV), a mode of internal ... -
A modelling investigation into the impacts of the convective parameterization on the tropical circulation
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-15)Many studies have shown that the tropical circulations (Walker and Hadley circulations) will weaken in a warmer world. This is sometimes attributed to changes in the tropical mean water cycling rate (driven by convective ... -
Using a hierarchy of climate models to investigate snow processes influencing surface albedo
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-16)Northern Hemisphere (NH) extratropical land has experienced dramatic warming over the past century, a trend that is expected to continue in the coming decades. There is however, significant uncertainty surrounding projections ... -
Validating CloudSat-CPR retrievals for the estimation of snow accumulation in the Canadian Arctic
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-31)Snow is a critical contributor to our global water and energy budget, with profound impacts for water resource availability, snow albedo feedback and flooding in cold regions. The vast size and remote nature of the Arctic ... -
Validation of precipitation phase estimates from CloudSat-CPR across Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-23)Snow is an important component of the global climate system with significant impacts on local weather, fresh water resources, and energy balance in high latitude cold countries. Therefore precise snowfall monitoring is ...