Le Labo Climat Montréal est un projet de recherche qui accompagne la Ville de Montréal et Ouranos dans le redéveloppement urbain du quartier Lachine Est. Son objectif est de développer de nouvelles pratiques de planification de projets urbains qui prennent en compte l’adaptation aux changements climatiques. Pour cela, les stagiaires participeront aux nombreuses tâches du […]

Les changements climatiques en cours devraient affecter la composition, la structure ainsi que fonctionnement des écosystèmes forestiers au Québec. Ces changements devraient être particulièrement importants pour les peuplements feuillus qui se retrouvent aujourd’hui à leur marge de distribution nordique au contact de la forêt boréale mixte. En effet, les peuplements marginaux de feuillus d’érables (Acer […]

Les scénarios climatiques utilisés dans les projets d’impact, de vulnérabilité et d’adaptation aux changements climatiques sont issus d’une combinaison des simulations numériques du climat avec des observations. Les méthodes impliquées dans cette combinaison visent à optimiser l’équivalence statistique avec les observations, et doivent garantir la cohérence physique entre les variables du scénario (p. ex., température, […]

L’objectif principal de ce projet de recherche est de proposer une méthodologie de tarification et de provisionnement du risque d’inondation au Canada dans un contexte de changements climatiques. L’étudiant utilisera les résultats de modèles climatiques, hydrologiques et hydrauliques construits par Ouranos et ses membres et les intégrera dans un modèle actuariel d’évaluation des primes et […]

Human influence on current climate change is now unequivocal. The rate of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions continues to increase, and climate models and observations show that climate changes are accelerating in response to these emissions. In this context, the rate of the current climate change strongly modifies the frequency and the intensity of extreme events, […]

Several studies have shown that water levels of the Great Lakes would inevitably decline in a warmer climate. These studies were based on a modeling system that was not accounting for two-way exchanges of water and energy between the atmosphere and the earth surface, hence excluding key feedback mechanisms. The general objective of this project […]

Regional Climate Models (RCMs) allow generating climate-change projections into the future over a limited region of the globe at high spatial resolution. The production of large ensembles of simulations from a same RCM is an emerging field of research allowing to explore in detail the interaction between climate change, natural climate variability and extreme events, […]

The rate of the current climate change strongly modifies the frequency, the duration and the intensity of extreme events, such as droughts, heat waves or extreme precipitation. Strong rates of greenhouse gases emissions can cause a destabilization of a component of the climate system (e.g. the sudden melt of the Arctic sea ice). Such a […]

The wild food system of northern Quebec is a critical natural resource, health resource, and cultural resource of the people of Eeyou Istchee and Nunavik, which has and will be impacted by climate change in many, diverse ways. The research proposed here seeks to identify the likely climate change impacts on key wild food species […]

Forests provide habitat to more than 65% of terrestrial biodiversity, yet are being eliminated or greatly simplified at an alarming rate under global change (GC). Current forestry practices tend to favour a handful of species, without considering resilience of resulting forests to GC. During the past two decades, studies have investigated the complex relationships between […]

Projected climate change is expected to alter fire regimes across the boreal forest, which in turn will affect forest community structure, composition and diversity. The intern will examine the effects of changes in climate, and by extension, fire cycle, on the presence of three most common tree species in the boreal forest of Canada. Specifically, […]