The Toronto 2015 Pan and Parapan American Games Experience
- Message from the Assistant Deputy Ministers of Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Meteorological Service of Canada and Science and Technology Branches
- Foreword from the Project’s Senior Executive
- Executive Summary
- 1. The Mission and Mandate for the Games
- 2. Early Planning
- 3. The Project Team
- 4. Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Partners for the Games
- 5. The Mesonet
- 6. Information Technology
- 7. Integration Tests and Contingency Plans
- 8. Forecast Services and Prediction
- 9. Briefing and Dissemination Services
- 10. Environment and Climate Change Canada Games Operations Cycle
- 11. Research
- 12. Weather and Health Portfolio
- 13. Communications
- 14. Post-Games
- 15. Closing Comments
- Appendix A – List of Abbreviations
An Environment and Climate Change Canada Perspective
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Table of Contents
- Message from the Assistant Deputy Ministers of Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Meteorological Service of Canada and Science and Technology Branches
- Foreword from the Project’s Senior Executive
- Executive Summary
- 1. The Mission and Mandate for the Games
- 2. Early Planning
- 3. The Project Team
- 4. Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Partners for the Games
- 5. The Mesonet
- 6. Information Technology
- 7. Integration Tests and Contingency Plans
- 8. Forecast Services and Prediction
- 9. Briefing and Dissemination Services
- 10. Environment and Climate Change Canada Games Operations Cycle
- 11. Research
- 11.1 Doppler LiDAR
- 11.2 Automated Mobile Meteorological Observing System
- 11.3 Southern Ontario Lightning Mapping Array
- 11.4 CRUISER and Related Air Quality Measurements
- 11.5 Ultraviolet Index Demonstration Products
- 11.6 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
- 11.7 Supersites
- 11.8 Pan Am Committee Boat Meteorological Sensors
- 11.9 The Research Support Desk – “Next Generation” Forecasting, Nowcasting and Alerting Demonstration
- 11.10 Environment Canada Pan Am Science Showcase
- 12. Weather and Health Portfolio
- 12.1 Portfolio Approach
- 12.2 Service Enhancement
- 12.3 Demonstration Projects
- 12.3.1 Weather Health Information System for Decision Optimization and Management (WISDOM)
- 12.3.2 Near Roadside Air Quality Monitoring
- 12.3.3 The AirSENCE Air Quality Monitoring Network
- 12.3.4 Urban Heat Island Decision Support for Heat Alerts and Response Systems
- 12.3.5 Testing of Real-time UV Sensor and Enhanced Modelling
- 12.3.6 Weather and Health Service Dissemination
- 12.4 Weather and Health Legacy
- 13. Communications
- 14. Post-Games
- 15. Closing Comments
- APPENDIX A – List of Abbreviations
List of Figures
Figure 1. Sample weather station-specific and Games region climatological graphics
Figure 2. Three types of compact weather stations assessed in ECCC’s intercomparison study
Figure 3. TO2015 Games venues in TO2015 defined zones, overlaid on ECCC’s public forecast regions
Figure 6. Location of stations in the Mesonet
Figure 7. ATMOS, Vaisala WXT520, Lufft WS600, WS601 weather stations
Figure 9. TRIAXYS™ Directional Wave Buoy
Figure 10. KIPP & ZONEN UVS-AE-T sensor (UV radiometer)
Figure 11. ECCC monitoring staff launches an upper air balloon
Figure 12. Network of Networks – Location of Ontario wide observations
Figure 13. ECCC’s Intensive Operating Period Plan
Figure 14. ECCC’s table top exercise for escalation and notification
Figure 15. ECCC forecasters at the Ontario Storm Prediction Centre
Figure 16. Model predicted fields from the Urban GEM-LAM model with 250-m grid spacing
Figure 17. Simulated fields for the 250-m grid resolution WaveWatch III model
Figure 18. Model predicted PM2.5 mass concentration
Figure 19. ECCC’s Briefing Team at the TO2015 Main Operations Centre
Figure 21. The ECCC Operations Cycle during the 2015 Pan Am Games
Figure 22. The ECCC Operations Cycle during the 2015 Parapan Am Games
Figure 23. ECCC Doppler LiDAR at Hanlan’s Point on Toronto Centre Island
Figure 24. The three AMMOS units installed on hybrid vehicles, with their ECCC operators
Figure 26. 3D SOLMA data capturing full details of lightning flash
Figure 27. ECCC’s mobile air quality laboratory, CRUISER
Figure 28. ECCC’s UAV that was flown during the Games
Figure 29. Meteorological Supersite at the UOIT in Oshawa
Figure 31. Example of an ECCC MetObject forecast depiction at a key frame time
Figure 32. Hourly meteorological analysis in the Games region
Figure 34. The new air quality monitoring station at Hanlan's Point on Toronto Centre Island
Figure 35. ECCC’s three Heat Warning Regions in Ontario and ECCC’s Heat Warning criteria
Figure 36. Near roadside monitoring station near Highway 401 in Toronto
Figure 38. Interpolated observational air temperature fields during a heat wave in the GTA.
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