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A narrative approach to building computational capacity for climate change impact assessment in professional master's students

With the growing recognition of the cascading consequences of climate change, there is an increasing demand for graduate education in climate change impact assessment (CCIA). To facilitate improved transparency and technical skill-building in CCIA, …

Accounting for missing data in monthly temperature series: Testing rule-of-thumb omission of months with missing values

The '3/5 rule' is a commonly used rule-of-thumb for dealing with missing data when calculating monthly climate normals. The rule states that any month that is missing more than 3 consecutive daily values, or more than 5 daily values in total, should …

Characterization of the urban heat island at Toronto: Revisiting the choice of rural sites using a measure of day-to-day variation

The quantification of the Urban Heat Island (UHI) relies on the establishment of urban–rural station pairs for comparison. We revisited the selection of three rural stations (Albion Field Centre, Millgrove, and King Smoke Tree) and two urban stations …

Evolution of Winter Temperature in Toronto, Ontario, Canada: A Case Study of Winters 2013/14 and 2014/15

Globally, 2014 and 2015 were the two warmest years on record. At odds with these global records, eastern Canada experienced pronounced annual cold anomalies in both 2014 and 2015, especially during the 2013/14 and 2014/15 winters. This study …