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The Northern Tornadoes Project - Uncovering Canada’S True Tornado Climatology, David Sills, Gregory A. Kopp, Aaron Jaffe, Elizabeth Sutherland, Connell Miller, Joanne Kunkel, Emilio Hong, Sarah Stevenson, William Wang

Civil and Environmental Engineering Publications

Canada is a vast country with most of its population located along its southern border. Large areas are sparsely populated and/or heavily forested, and severe weather reports are rare when thunderstorms occur there. Thus, it has been difficult to accurately assess the true tornado climatology and risk. It is also important to establish a reliable baseline for tornado-related climate change studies.

The Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP), led by Western University, is an ambitious multidisciplinary initiative aimed at detecting and documenting every tornado that occurs across Canada. A team of meteorologists and wind engineers collects research-quality data during each damage investigation, …