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Prof. Bruno Tremblay High latitude climate and climate variability

Associate Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Office: Burnside Hall 823
Tel.: (514) 398-4369
Fax.: (514) 398-6115
bruno.tremblay [at] mcgill.ca (E-mail)


I am interested in the high latitudes and their effect on global climate, local climate and lower latitudes. My research is centered on sea ice at the interface between the ocean and the atmosphere. The Arctic is transitioning from a perennial to a seasonal ice cover; this is often referred to as the Antarctification of the Arctic Ocean. In my group, we study the impact of lateral and vertical ocean heat flux, surface radiative and turbulent fluxes, meridional moisture and heat transport and cloud type on the observed decline of sea ice. In addition to decadal projections of Arctic sea ice, I am interested in seasonal and sub-seasonal forecast of sea ice conditions. To this end, we use Global Climate Models (GCMs), coupled primitive equations ice-ocean models, and stand alone sea ice models. I also do field work in the Canadian Arctic and Labrador coast to study the sea ice mass balance and internal sea ice stresses. Finally, I am interested in the development of new sea ice rheological model (stress strain relationship) and the applications of new numerical techniques to solve for the highly non-linear momentum equation of sea ice.

Outstanding questions


Currently teaching

ESYS-301 Earth System Modelling

ESYS-300 Investigating the Earth System

ESYS-104 The Earth System

Some recent publications

For a complete list of publications, please visit our publications page.