Introduction to Ouranos Climate Portraits
Summary of the activity
This training activity defines certain key terms to help with understanding the climate information provided on Climate Portraits, and explains the platform’s main features. Specifically, this training activity covers:
Key elements for conducting a search on Climate Portraits
The platform’s various features and advanced options for finding information
Visualizing the data from different angles
Additional tools and information to complement what Ouranos offers
General objective
Gain a general understanding of the information provided on the Ouranos Climate Portraits platform and its functionalities
What you’ll learn
Summarize the key elements needed for doing a search on Climate Portraits
Select the right functionalities to find the data you need
Recognize the advanced search options
Compare different visualizations of climate data
Identify complementary tools and information
Duration and format
In French only
About 2 hours
Lecture with question period
Real-time
Online
By registration only
Free
Limited places
Presenter
Diane Chaumont holds a Master’s in Physical geography from the University of Montreal. During the 1990s, she conducted research on water and sediment sampling, and data analysis, mainly through the St. Lawrence Centre and INRS-ETE. At CERCA, she learned to twin hydrological and meteorological models during studies on the Saguenay floods.
Diane joined Ouranos in 2003, first as a specialist, then as coordinator of the Climate Scenarios and Services group. She became responsible for integrating scientific information for Climate Portraits in 2023.
