Grants and Contributions

Acquisition of equipment: The project aims to ensure the quality and durability of the cross-country ski trails maintained by the client and used by tourists.

Working Capital : In the context of the crisis caused by the pandemic at the COVID-19, the project aims to ensure the continuity of the activities of the organization which specializes in the organization of international caliber sporting events including several open water swimming competitions.

Equipment acquisition: The goal of the project is to ensure the quality and sustainability of the cross-country skiing trails maintained by the client and used by tourists

Working Capital: In the context of the crisis caused by the pandemic at COVID-19, the project aims to ensure the continuity of operations of a company that specializes in the cultivation, production and sale of medical and recreational cannabis.

Equipment Acquisition: The project aims to ensure the quality and sustainability of snowmobile trails maintained by the client and used by tourists.

Equipment acquisition: The project aims to improve the production capacity, productivity and digitization of a company specialized in the manufacture of "Ready-to-Eat" foods.

The research will help improve Canada's ability of climate and weather prediction and support the development of future satellite missions.

Air pollution regulations have led to dramatic reductions in emissions of CO and NOx, but studies using atmospheric observations to quantify these reductions produce a wide range of emission estimates. The proposed project will use a multi-model and multi-sensor approach to quantify potential sources of discrepancies that contribute to uncertainty in the emission estimates. The project will focus on using space-based measurements to better quantify emissions of CO globally and of NOx in North America. Improved estimates of the emissions of CO and NOx are critical for assessing the effectiveness of air pollution regulations.

Despite the success of the Montreal Protocol in phasing out ozone depleting substances, lower stratospheric ozone continues to decrease. Currently it is not clear, if this ongoing decrease is related to so far unexplored chemical effects or to changes in the atmospheric circulation, the large-scale movement of air by which ozone is redistributed. The proposed project will use satellite measurements from OSIRIS and ACE-FTS in combination with simulations from the Canadian Earth system model to understand lower stratospheric ozone changes and driving forces. Based on the improved understanding, predictions of ozone recovery in the lower stratosphere will be produced.

Data from two Canadian space-based instruments will be utilized to investigate our changing atmosphere and to improve our ability to simulate these changes with atmospheric models. In one activity, we will focus on understanding how to best simulate the injection and dispersal of wildfire pollution in the atmosphere including its year-to-year variation. In a second activity, we will examine how different models describe greenhouse gases that are also air pollutants. For the third activity, we will assess the quality of space-based measurements of greenhouse gases and air pollutants and evaluate how well models simulate these important gases.