| Proponents |
Affiliation |
Title |
CCAF Funding |
| ASSESSMENT OF THE STATE OF CLIMATE KNOWLEDGE |
| Joan Masterton; and Science Liaison Office |
Environment Canada |
Support to Canadian Contributors to the IPCC Third Assessment Report |
$500,000 |
| Science Liaison Office |
Environment Canada |
IPCC Trust Fund |
$100,000 |
| John Gould |
International CLIVAR Project Office |
Canadian Support to the International CLIVAR Project Office |
$100,000 |
| IGBP Secretariat |
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences |
Global Change Open Science Conference: Challenges of a Changing Earth |
$20,000 |
| John Robinson |
University of British Columbia |
The IPCC Process and the Relationship it is Fostering between the Scientific and Policymaking Communities |
$63,000 |
| Yves Bégin |
Université Laval |
Support for International Dedrochronology Conference |
$10,000 |
| Malcolm Wilson |
University of Regina |
Support for IPCC International Meeting on CO2 Capture and Storage |
$10,000 |
| Barry Goodison |
Environment Canada |
Canadian Support for the International ACSYS/CLiC Project Office |
$120,000 |
| IGBP Secretariat |
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences |
Support for the Third International Geosphere Biosphere Program Congress |
$50,000 |
| Norm McFarlane |
Environment Canada |
Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate: Support for the International Project Office |
$100,000 |
| MONITORING THE STATE OF THE CLIMATE SYSTEM |
| Doug Whelpdale |
Environment Canada |
Preparation of a Canadian Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) Plan |
$100,000 |
| Ted Yuzyk |
Environment Canada |
Assessment of Requirements for Supplementary Climate Networks |
$70,000 |
| Bob Morris |
Environment Canada |
Digitization and Accessibility of Climate Station History MetaData |
$102,000 |
| Doug Whelpdale |
Environment Canada |
Liaison between Canadian and International GCOS Programs |
$50,000 |
| Val Swail |
Environment Canada |
Enhancements To Moored Buoy Data And Metadata For GCOS |
$60,000 |
| Dave Harvey |
Environment Canada |
Climate Monitoring and Canada's Water Resources |
$200,000 |
| Dan Wright; Keith Thompson |
Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Dalhousie University |
Assessing the Utility of Coastal Sea Level and Hydrographic Data in the Estimation of North Atlantic Circulation Variability |
$132,000 |
| Savi Narayanan |
Fisheries and Oceans Canada |
Delineation of an Optimal Sea Level Network |
$160,000 |
| Barry Goodison; Paul Egginton |
Environment Canada; Natural Resources Canada |
Definition of a Core Canadian Cryospheric Network of in situ and Remotely Sensed Data for Monitoring the Canadian Cryosphere in Support of GCOS |
$60,000 |
| Charles Tarnocai |
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada |
Wetlands Distribution and the Carbon Cycle |
$60,000 |
| Josef Cihlar |
Natural Resources Canada |
Design of a Canadian Network for Terrestrial Climate Related Observations |
$60,000 |
| Shubha Sathyendranath |
Dalhousie University |
Delineation of Temporal/Spatial Scales of Primary Productivity on Canadian Shelves |
$80,000 |
| PROCESSES |
| Ron Stewart |
Environment Canada |
Field Experiment to Document the Hydrologic Cycle of the Mackenzie Basin |
$50,000 |
| David Layzell |
Queen’s University |
Support for BIOCAP Canada Foundation |
$900,000 |
| Andrew J. Weaver |
University of Victoria |
The Effect of Arctic Ocean Processes on Global Climate Change |
$117,750 |
| Eric Girard |
Université du Québec à Montréal |
Simulating Aerosol-Cloud Interactions and Cloud Radiative Forcing over Hudson Bay |
$112,200 |
| Qiang Fu |
Dalhousie University |
Test and Improvement of Cloud and Radiation Parameterizations in CCCma GCM Using SHEBA Data |
$31,050 |
| George Isaac |
Environment Canada |
Variability Analysis of Aircraft Cloud in-situ Observations and Cloud Microphysical Parameterizations for Climate Studies |
$147,000 |
| Philip Marsh and Murray MacKay |
Environment Canada |
The Physics and Scaling of Snow Cover Processes in Cold Regions: Improving our Understanding of Key Climate System Processes |
$315,000 |
| Simon Prinsenberg |
Fisheries and Oceans Canada |
Climate Research and Monitoring of Canadian Arctic Archipelago Ocean and Ice Conditions |
$180,000 |
| Shusen Wang, Alexander Trishchenko |
Natural Resources Canada |
Surface Albedo Simulation and Validation for Climate Modeling: Improvements through Remote Sensing Products |
$100,000 |
| E. Peter Jones |
Fisheries and Oceans Canada |
Multiple Tracer Studies on Sources and Transport of Freshwater through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and the Hudson Bay Region |
$105,000 |
| Fiona McLaughlin |
Fisheries and Oceans Canada |
Rate Control Processes of Freshwater Withdrawal from the Arctic Ocean through the Arctic Archipelago: Evidence from Physical Properties and Tracer Fields |
$90,000 |
| PROCESSES: SOURCES AND SINKS OF GREENHOUSE GASES |
| Ray Desjardins |
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada |
Improving Estimates of Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Agricultural Ecosystems |
$55,000 |
| Mike Apps and Robert Stewart |
Natural Resources Canada |
International Science Conference: "The Role of Boreal Forests and Forestry in the Global Carbon Budget" |
$80,000 |
| Brian Stocks and Robert Stewart |
Natural Resources Canada |
Improving Estimates of Carbon Fluxes from Fire in Canadian Forests |
$30,000 |
| Henry Hengeveld |
Environment Canada |
Experts Meeting on Research Priorities for Carbon Sinks |
$30,000 |
| Vincent St. Louis |
University of Alberta |
Reservoirs: An Important Source of Greenhouse Gases in Canada |
$103,000 |
| David A. MacLean [coordinator] |
University of New Brunswick |
Climate Change Effects on Insect Outbreaks and Management Opportunities for Carbon Sequestration |
$123,000 |
| Peter Dillon |
Ontario Ministry of Environment / Trent University |
The Role of Freshwaters in Canadian Carbon Budgets |
$159,000 |
| Claudia Wagner-Riddle |
University of Guelph |
Animal Manure as a Source of Greenhouse Gases: Mitigation through Composting |
$99,500 |
| Dale Vitt |
University of Alberta |
Modelling Responses of Carbon Dynamics to Climate Changes in Forested Wetlands of Western Canada |
$82,000 |
| Nigel T. Roulet |
McGill University |
Peatlands of Eastern Canada as Enhanced Carbon Sinks |
$170,000 |
| R. Lemke |
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada |
Assessing the Nitrous Oxide Tradeoffs to Carbon Sequestering Management Practices |
$132,000 |
| Ray Desjardins; Ian MacPherson |
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; National Research Council of Canada |
Evaluating and Improving the Parameterization of Biogeochemical Processes Associated with the Flux of N2O from Canadian Agroecosystems |
$155,000 |
| Brian McConkey and Yih-Wu Jame |
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada |
Predicting the Effects of Cropping Strategies, Climate Change, and Elevated Atmospheric CO2. on Crop Production, Production Variability, and Soil Carbon Balance |
$82,000 |
| Andy Black; Harry McCaughey; Alan Barr |
University of B.C.; Queen's University; Environment Canada |
Carbon Balance of Boreal Forest Ecosystems |
$163,000 |
| Jing M.Chen; Wenjun Chen and Josef Cihlar |
University of Toronto; Natural Resources Canada |
Developing a National Upscaling Strategy for Carbon Budgets of Canada's Forest Ecosystems Using Remote Sensing, Tower Flux and Inventory Data |
$141,000 |
| CLIMATE MODELING |
| Qiang Fu |
Dalhousie University |
Improving the Approximation of Ice Cloud Radiation Processes in Canadian Climate Centre Global Climate Models |
$42,000 |
| Ulrike Lohmann |
Dalhousie University |
Sulphate Aerosol Forcing in Global Climate Models |
$170,000 |
| Howard Barker |
Environment Canada |
Improving the Representation of the Interaction between Clouds and Radiation in Canadian Climate Models |
$54,000 |
| Maurice Levasseur |
Fisheries and Oceans Canada |
Northern Oceans Dimethylsulfide Emission Models (NODEM) |
$150,000 |
| Ming Li |
Fisheries and Oceans Canada |
Establishing Approximations for Sloping Bottom Boundary Layers to be Incorporated into Ocean General Circulation Models |
$144,000 |
| Kit Szeto |
Environment Canada |
Scaling of Cold Season Land Surface Processes and its Application to Improving Land Surface Parameterizations in Canadian Climate Models |
$42,000 |
| Diana Verseghy |
Environment Canada |
Improving Approximations of Land Surface Snow Processes for Canadian Climate Models |
$128,000 |
| Andrew J. Weaver; Gregory M. Flato |
University of Victoria; Environment Canada |
Improved Representation of Sea Ice in the CCCma Global Coupled Climate Model |
$100,000 |
| Petr Chylek |
Dalhousie University |
Generalized Aerosol Optical Properties Generator for the Canadian GCM |
$48,000 |
| Allyn Clarke |
Fisheries and Oceans Canada |
Assessment of Ocean Climate Modeling Research Needs and Capacities for Seasonal and Longer Term Climate Prediction |
$30,000 |
| Douglas Whelpdale and Francis Zwiers |
Environment Canada |
Enhanced Modelling Capacity at the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis |
$2,400,000 |
| CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS |
| Francis Zwiers and Roger Street |
Environment Canada |
Climate Scenarios for the Canadian Impacts Community - Identifying the Needs |
$45,000 |
| Roger Street and Elaine Barrow |
Environment Canada |
Canadian Climate Change Scenarios - Training Module |
$45,000 |
| Roger Street and Elaine Barrow; Fred Herfst |
Environment Canada; Canadian Institute for Climate Studies |
National Climate Change Scenarios Pilot |
$310,000 |
| François J. Saucier |
Fisheries and Oceans Canada |
Modelling Regional Climate Changes in the Canadian Inland Seas: The Gulf of St. Lawrence and Hudson Bay |
$180,000 |
| Daniel Caya, René Laprise |
Université du Québec à Montréal |
Production of Regional Climate Change Scenarios over Regions of Canada with the Canadian Regional Climate Model |
$231,000 |
| Mike Wotton |
Natural Resources Canada |
Current and Future Forest Fire Occurrence and Severity in Canada: Creation and Validation of Scenarios Developed Using the Regional Climate Model |
$145,000 |
| Xuebin Zhang |
Environment Canada |
Canadian Climate Change Scenarios - Historical Data |
$25,000 |
| David Greenberg |
Fisheries and Oceans Canada |
Increased Flood Risk in the Bay of Fundy in Scenarios for Climate Change |
$75,000 |
| Robin Brown |
Fisheries and Oceans Canada |
Climate Change Scenarios for Sockeye & Coho Salmon Stocks |
$120,000 |
| David T. Price |
Natural Resources Canada |
Transient Climate Change Scenarios for High Resolution Assessment of Impacts on Canada's Forest Ecosystems |
$96,000 |
| S. Gameda and A. Bootsma |
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada |
Development of Climate Change Scenarios for the Agricultural Sector |
$177,000 |
| Roger Street, Elaine Barrow and Don MacIver |
Environment Canada |
Canadian Climate Impacts Scenarios Facility - Phase 2 |
$1,135,000 |
| Xuebin Zhang |
Environment Canada |
Development of Weather Generators and Statistical Techniques for Downscaling Climate Extremes for Canada |
$240,000 |
| Paulin Coulibaly and Francois Anctil |
McMaster University and Université Laval |
Downscaling of Global Climate Model Outputs for Flood Frequency Analysis in the Saguenay River System |
$89,000 |
| James Byrne, Dan Johnson and Alain Pietroniro |
University of Lethbridge, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and Environment Canada |
GCM-based high resolution spatial temporal precipitation scenarios for western Canada |
$72,738 |
| Stephen Wolfe |
Natural Resources Canada |
Developing Paleoclimatic Scenarios for Impacts and Adaptation Research in Canada |
$50,000 |
| Michael Pancura and Gary Lines |
Environment Canada |
Development of a Climate Change Geographical Information System for Canada |
$50,000 |
| Alain Bourque |
Ouranos |
A First Evaluation of the Strength and Weaknesses of Statistical Downscaling Methods for Simulating Extremes over Various Regions of Eastern Canada |
$130,000 |
| Dan McKenney and David Price |
Natural Resources Canada |
Production of Multiple High-Resolution Climate Change Scenarios |
$29,300 |
| CLIMATE / WEATHER EXTREMES |
| Roger Street |
Environment Canada |
United States - Canada Symposium on North American Climate Change and Weather Extremes |
$65,000 |
| Isztar Zawadzki |
McGill University |
Severe Weather Climatology and its Planetary-scale Precursors |
$95,000 |
| Anne de Vernal and Claude Hillaire-Marcel |
Université du Québec à Montréal |
A Probabilistic Study of Major Hydrological Events Recorded in the Saguenay Fjord and Lower Estuary of St. Lawrence |
$68,500 |
| Daniel Caya |
Université du Québec à Montréal |
Evaluation of the Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM) Ability to Simulate Current and Future Extreme Weather Event Climatologies |
$102,000 |
| Rick Lee |
Canadian Institute for Climate Studies |
Climate Indices - A View of Changing Living Conditions |
$50,000 |
| Erik Nielsen |
Manitoba Geological Survey |
Climatic Extremes in Southern Manitoba during the Past Millennium |
$25,000 |
| S.A. Wolfe |
Natural Resources Canada |
Prairie Droughts and Surface Winds from Eolian Deposits |
$40,000 |
| ARCTIC |
| Martin Bergmann |
Fisheries and Oceans Canada |
Preparing for Global Warming in Arctic Canada |
$85,000 |
| Dáithí A. Stone, Andrew J. Weaver |
University of Victoria |
Analysis of the Variability of the Arctic Oscillation under Enhanced Greenhouse Warming |
$40,000 |
| Terry Prowse |
Environment Canada |
Hydrologic Extremes on Arctic Flowing Rivers: Analysis and Data Recovery |
$80,000 |
| E. Carmack |
Fisheries and Oceans Canada |
Arctic Ocean Climate Station in the Beaufort Sea - A Retrospective Analysis of In-Hand Time Series Data: 1990-1995 |
$116,000 |
| Humfrey Melling, Ed Carmack |
Fisheries and Oceans Canada |
Variability and Trend in Ocean Circulation over the Continental Shelf in the Beaufort Sea, 1980-2000 |
$46,000 |
| E. P. Jones |
Fisheries and Oceans Canada |
Carbon Budgets in the Arctic Ocean and Labrador Sea |
$78,000 |
| S. Prinsenberg, J. Hamilton, G. Fowler, D. Greenberg |
Fisheries and Oceans Canada |
Analysis, Mooring and Modelling of the Freshwater and Heat Fluxes through the Canadian Archipelago |
$100,000 |
| Alan E. Taylor; Margo M. Burgess |
ASL Environmental Sciences, Inc.; Natural Resources Canada |
High Arctic Permafrost Temperature Observations for the Detection of Climate Change: Assessment of Existing Knowledge and Monitoring of Future Trends |
$45,000 |
| David Fisher |
Natural Resources Canada |
High Latitude Multiproxy Temperature Reconstructions Using Ice Core Tree-ring and lake varve Data Sets |
$24,000 |
| J.R. Bélanger and A. Moore |
Natural Resources Canada |
National Arctic Geoscience Database Supporting Climate Change Research |
$100,000 |
| B.E. Goodison; R.M. Koerner |
Environment Canada; Natural Resources Canada |
The State of the Arctic Cryosphere during the Extreme Warm Summer of 1998: Documenting Cryospheric Variability in the Canadian Arctic for Assessing the Significance of Recent Warming |
$155,000 |
| Claude Labine; Bea Alt; Greg Henry |
Campbell Scientific Canada Corp.; Balanced Environments Associates; University of British-Columbia |
Inventory and Rescue of High Arctic Climate and Related Data Sets |
$100,600 |
| Konrad Gajewski |
University of Ottawa |
Synthesis of Paleoclimate Data from the Canadian Arctic |
$40,000 |
| David Hik, Garry K C Clarke, Julie M. Cruikshank, Peter Johnson |
University of Alberta; University of B.C; University of Ottawa |
Compilation and Synthesis of Paleoclimate / Paleo-Environmental and Recent Climate, Physical and Biological Datasets from the St. Elias Mountains, Yukon |
$42,000 |
| Yves Bégin |
Université Laval |
Trends and Variability in Thermal Conditions at the Southern Limit of the Eastern Canadian Arctic, on Decadal and Century Time Scales |
$120,000 |
| P. Marsh |
Environment Canada |
Land surface/hydrology aspects of the climate of NW Arctic Canada |
$85,000 |
| SCIENCE COORDINATION AND REPORTING |
| Mark Raizenne |
Health Canada |
Risk Management Science Coordination Workshop |
$55,000 |
