Alpine Ski System Facing Climate Change (part 1)
Speaker(s)
Description
This webinar will presents the main results of the project "Portrait of Snow Cover Indices", as well as an overview of the research work that has resulted from it.
Portrait of Snow Cover Indices
Summary
Access to climate projections of snow cover and the resulting indices has long been of interest to many users. In this context, the project "Portrait of Snow Cover Indices " was developed within the global study "Quebec ski system’s vulnerability to climate change " in collaboration with the Quebec Ski Areas Association. The objective was to produce an overview of indicators of natural snow cover, based on the snow water equivalent (SWE), for southern Quebec (Quebec-ski domain) at a resolution of about ten kilometers.
This webinar will present the main results of this project as well as an overview of the research work that has resulted from it.
Learning objectives
Understand the spatial changes in natural snow cover in Quebec by the end of the century
Understand the evolution of the characteristics of the natural snow season in Quebec
Speaker
Émilie holds a PhD in Atmospheric Physics from the University of Toulouse III, and has worked as a research engineer on intense rain events and a postdoctoral researcher on winter storms at Météo-France. A postdoctoral researcher in collaboration with UQÀM and Ouranos, she evaluated the ice and then the snow on the ground in the Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM5). She then studied the effects of climate change on mine restoration with UQAT and Polytechnique-Montréal, as a postdoctoral researcher and then as an associate researcher.
With Ouranos since 2019, Émilie Bresson is part of the Climate Science and Climate Services team as a specialist in Research and support for innovation. She contributes to various projects, particularly those related to ice storms and mines.
