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Wildfire hazards are increasingly threatening people living near the urban/forest interface. These threats are exacerbated by climate change, population growth, and forest-fire-suppression practices.
ATSC 413 is designed to educate highly qualified personnel with the technical skill-set to forecast forest-fire weather, to anticipate evolution of fire hazards associated with a changing climate, and to advise on sustainable fire-mitigation policies.
A large portion of this new course is on synoptics (i.e., weather forecasting). Students in ATSC 413 will learn how to interpret, communicate, and apply modern numerical weather prediction (NWP)-based forecasting (Bauer et al 2015, Stuart et al, 2022) to fire-weather issues.
This course, together with the ATSC 201 prerequisite, will satisfy the synoptic/weather-forecasting portion of World Meteorological Organization (WMO) professional-meteorologist requirements (Guide to the Implementation of Education and Training Standards in Meteorology and Hydrology Volume I – Meteorology 2023 edition). It will also satisfy the synoptics requirements for graduates applying for meteorologist jobs with Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), the US National Weather Service of NOAA, and satisfies one of the American Meteorological Society requirements for a meteorology bachelor’s degree.
• ATSC majors & honours.
• ATSC minors
• Combined ATSC/CPSC majors
• Physical GEOG majors (a technical elective)
• Environmental Science majors (could be listed as an elective)
• Forestry students (could be listed as an elective)
• Other interested students with STEM backgrounds who have the prereqs.
• Fire fighters & managers (would be a re-training opportunity for them)
• Air quality experts and consultants