The McMaster University, Climate Change Research Program focuses on bio- and hydro-meteorological field measurements, evapotranspiration processes, global change, environmental quality, remote sensing data applications and regional and global climate modeling.

Current research involves measurement of carbon dioxide, water vapour and energy fluxes and other meteorological variables over a chronosequence of planted conifer forest in southern Ontario under a McMaster Univesity Initiative and boreal mixed wood forests in northern Ontario under Fluxnet-Canada program. Objectives are to find out how much carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere as these forests grow and how seasonal and annual climate variability and other environmental factors regulate this carbon uptake.

Group is also involved in development and testing of a process based ecosystem model for coupled regional and global climate models and measurement and modeling of air pollutants. Regional and global climate models are being run at SHARCNET: a super computing facility at the McMaster Univesity. For further details see our Research page.

Program Leader:

Altaf Arain,Professor
School of Geography and Earth Sciences
McMaster University
Hamilton, On, Canada L8S 4K1
Tel. (905) 525-9140 ext. 27941
Fax (905) 546-0463
Email:arainm@mcmaster.ca