Recent Publications

(2018). Accounting for missing data in monthly temperature series: Testing rule-of-thumb omission of months with missing values. Int. J. Climatol..

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(2018). Characterization of the urban heat island at Toronto: Revisiting the choice of rural sites using a measure of day-to-day variation. Urban Clim..

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(2017). Evolution of Winter Temperature in Toronto, Ontario, Canada: A Case Study of Winters 2013/14 and 2014/15. J. Climate.

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Code for moving from a single-station to a larger spatial scope

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On September 8 it was reported that Catherine McKenna now requires IRL security after enduring years of escalating abuse on Twitter. I, of course, was perturbed by the vitriol that I had seen directed at the minister, but I had largely dismissed it as part and parcel of Twitter. Twitter is a strange microcosm of some of the worst elements of politics—a sort of strange other world where earnest human tweeters, bot networks, and other shadowy figures all share “thoughts”; sometimes it is hard to tell who is sincere, who is a troll, and who is nothing more than a couple of lines of code on a server somewhere.

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An interview with UTSC Communications regarding my recent analysis of heat warning weather at Toronto Pearson

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An analysis of heat warning weather over the past 30 years at Toronto Pearson

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Code

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ec3

A Python program and standalone command-line executable to search for and download historical Canadian climate data from Environment and Climate Change Canada’s historical data archive

Conjuntool

A open-source platform for the visualization, analysis, and sub-setting of CMIP5 climate data.

canadaHCDx

Additional functions for G. L. Simpson’s canadaHCD package for acquiring Canadian climate data

senamhiR

A collection of functions to obtain Peruvian climatological or hydrological data from the Peruvian National Meterology and Hydrology Service

claut

Collected functions developed at the University of Toronto Climate lab.

Teaching

I am a teaching assistant for the following courses at UTSC:

  • Current undergraduate courses:
    • EESA01: Introduction to Environmental Science
  • Current graduate courses:
    • EES1117: Climate Change Impact Assessment
    • EES1131: Applied Climatology
    • EES1132: Climate Data Analysis
  • Past courses:
    • EESB16: Feeding Humans - The Cost to the Planet
    • EESD06: Climate Change Impact Assessment (undergraduate)

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