Gordon McBean
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gordon McBean, , is a Canadian climatologist who serves as chairman of the board of trustees of the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences. He is a professor at the University of Western Ontario and Chair for Policy in the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction. Previously he was the Assistant Deputy Minister of Meteorological Service of Canada.
Gordon McBean's Published Works
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Published Works
- Urban flooding in Lagos, Nigeria: Patterns of vulnerability and resilience among women (2013) (199)
- Measurements of the Turbulent Fluxes of Momentum, Moisture and Sensible Heat Over the Ocean, (1971) (190)
- Global risks: Pool knowledge to stem losses from disasters (2015) (148)
- The Vertical Transports of Kinetic Energy by Turbulence and Pressure in the Boundary Layer (1975) (105)
- Turbulent transfer mechanisms in the atmospheric surface layer (1972) (103)
- Climate extremes and housing rights: A political ecology of impacts, early warning and adaptation constraints in Lagos slum communities (2014) (99)
- The variations of the statistics of wind, temperature and humidity fluctuations with stability (1971) (96)
- Instrument Requirements for Eddy Correlation Measurements (1972) (92)
- An Earth-system prediction initiative for the twenty-first century (2010) (88)
- Canadian Disaster Management Policy: Moving Toward a Paradigm Shift? (2005) (69)
- Climate change, related hazards and human settlements (2009) (66)
- Underwater noise due to rain, hail, and snow (1987) (61)
- Climate Change and Extreme Weather: A Basis for Action (2004) (59)
- Comparison of turbulent fluxes over water determined by profile and eddy correlation techniques (1970) (58)
- Communicating the Science of Climate Change: A Mutual Challenge for Scientists and Educators. (2000) (57)
- Climate hazards and disasters: the need for capacity building (2010) (54)
- Disaster Risks Research and Assessment to Promote Risk Reduction and Management (2015) (52)
- Interactions between global climate subsystems : the legacy of Hann (1993) (47)
- An Investigation of Turbulence Within the Forest (1968) (43)
- Integrating disaster risk reduction towards sustainable development (2012) (42)
- The planetary boundary layer (1979) (39)
- Climate change: Global risks, challenges and decisions (2012) (39)
- Validation of synoptic circulation patterns simulated by the Canadian climate centre general circulation model for western north America: Research note (1995) (35)
- On the measurement of vertical humidity transport over land (1970) (33)
- Integrating local and scientific weather knowledge as a strategy for adaptation to climate change in the Arctic (2012) (32)
- Responsibility and liability in emergency management to natural disasters: A Canadian example (2016) (31)
- Storm Studies in the Arctic (STAR) (2010) (27)
- On the Relative Errors in Methods of Flux Calculations (1978) (25)
- Determinants of residential vulnerability to flood hazards in Metro Vancouver, Canada (2015) (25)
- Climate change, adaptive capacity and policy direction in the Canadian North: Can we learn anything from the collapse of the east coast cod fishery? (2007) (24)
- The turbulent transfer mechanisms: A time domain analysis (1974) (24)
- The turbulent energy budget near the surface (1971) (24)
- Sub-national government efforts to activate and motivate local climate change adaptation: Nova Scotia, Canada (2018) (23)
- Chapter 2 Arctic Climate – Past and Present Lead Author (22)
- Explosive Cyclogenesis over the Northeast Pacific Ocean (1983) (22)
- Pressure and humidity effects on optical refractive-index fluctuations (1981) (22)
- Resilience in a complex world – Avoiding cross-sector collapse (2016) (21)
- Assessing the bio-psychosocial correlates of flood impacts in coastal areas of Lagos, Nigeria (2015) (17)
- Structure of a Frontal System over the Northeast Pacific Ocean (1991) (17)
- Regional Environmental Change: Human Action and Adaptation. What does it take to meet the Belmont challenge? (2010) (15)
- Does Previous Experience of Floods Stimulate the Adoption of Coping Strategies? Evidence from Cross Sectional Surveys in Nigeria and Tanzania (2015) (14)
- An Earth-system Prediction Initiative for the 21 st Century (2010) (14)
- The governance of climate change adaptation: are networks to blame for the implementation deficit? (2019) (14)
- Variations of the Turbulent Fluxes of Momentum, Heat and Moisture over Lake Ontario (1975) (13)
- Comparison of the turbulent transfer processes near the surface (1973) (12)
- The Role of Government in Services for Natural Disaster Mitigation (2004) (12)
- Turbulence above Lake Ontario: Velocity and scalar statistics (1976) (12)
- Use of an Integrated System Dynamics Model for Analyzing Behaviour of the Social-economic-climatic System in Policy Development (2010) (11)
- Blurring disciplinary boundaries (2017) (11)
- The Atmospheric Boundary Layer (1986) (11)
- Storm Transfer and Response Experiment (1982) (10)
- Addressing human security in the Arctic in the context of climate change through science and technology (2009) (10)
- Boundary layer flow over gentle curvilinear topography with a sudden change in surface roughness (1977) (10)
- Production of risk: multiple interacting exposures and unequal vulnerability in coastal communities (2018) (10)
- Coping with Global Environmental Change: Need for an Interdisciplinary and Integrated Approach (2011) (10)
- Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation: Case Studies (2012) (10)
- Composition of snow in pacific coastal mountains (1986) (10)
- An application of spectrum analysis to synoptic-pollution data. (1973) (9)
- Self-Reported Experiences of Climate Change in Nigeria: The Role of Personal and Socio-Environmental Factors (2014) (9)
- Microscale temperature fluctuations in the atmospheric surface layer (1982) (8)
- Climate Change and Extreme Weather: Designing Adaptation Policy: Background Report (2009) (8)
- Risk Mitigation Strategies for Tornadoes in the Context of Climate Change and Development (2005) (8)
- The Energy Budgets of the Turbulent Velocity Components and the Velocity-Pressure Gradient Interactions (1978) (8)
- International Council for Science (ICSU)—On the Future Challenges for the Integration of Science into International Policy Development for Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction (2017) (7)
- Institutional response to disaster risk: the City of Vancouver and District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada (2017) (7)
- Introduction of a New International Research Program: Integrated Research on Disaster Risk - The Challenge of Natural and Human-Induced Environmental Hazards (2009) (6)
- Momentum and sensible heat fluxes calculated by the dissipation technique during the Ocean Storms Project (1993) (6)
- Role of active–passive scalar relationships in evaporation from vegetated surfaces (1992) (6)
- Role of Prediction in Sustainable Development and Disaster Management (2008) (5)
- Factors Controlling the Climate of the West Coast of North America (1996) (4)
- Turbulent fluxes over Lake Ontario during a cold frontal passage (1975) (3)
- Extreme Natural Hazards, Disaster Risks and Societal Implications: The grand challenges of integrated research on disaster risk (2014) (3)
- Estimation of the Pacific Ocean meridional heat flux at 35°N (1991) (3)
- Comparison of Radar and Navaid Windfinding Systems (1986) (3)
- International Council for Science (2017) (3)
- Coastal cities at risk (CCaR) : building adaptive capacity for managing climate change in coastal megacities (2017) (3)
- Scaling turbulence in the planetary boundary layer (1976) (2)
- The Socioeconomic and environmental benefits of a revolution in weather, climate and Earth system prediction (2007) (2)
- Integrating science to address food and health within Global Agenda 2030 (2021) (2)
- GLOBAL ENERGY AND WATER FLUXES (1989) (2)
- Comments on ‘limitations of the Eddy-correlation technique for the determination of turbulent fluxes near the surface’ (1975) (2)
- Prediction as a Basis for Planning and Response (2002) (2)
- Environment and Water for Life—In Canada and Around the World (2011) (2)
- Climate Change, Food Security, and Health: Harnessing Agroecology to Build Climate-Resilient Communities (2022) (2)
- Integrating Global Science to Address the Global Agenda 2030 (2018) (2)
- Climate Adaptation/Mitigation (2019) (1)
- Measures against disasters (2013) (1)
- RESPONSE OF THE UPPER OCEAN TO ATMOSPHERIC FORCING (1985) (1)
- An intercomparison of two rawinsonde systems (1986) (1)
- The Canadian O-QNet-a Relatively High-Density Windprofiler Network (2009) (1)
- A systems dynamic modelling approach to assessing elements of a weather forecasting system (2010) (1)
- Hazards and disasters : a challenge for development and research; presentation to the IDRC workshop "Strengthening Climate Adaptation Research - Mobilizing Capabilities and Enabling International Research Partnerships", Ottawa, Feb. 6-7, 2007 (2007) (1)
- INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT, WATER RESOURCES, AND SCIENCE- POLICY COMMUNICATION (2009) (1)
- Norwegian Climate Research : an Evaluation (2012) (1)
- Understanding the Climate System (1996) (1)
- Chronicle: The Second Canadian Conference on Micrometeorology (1971) (1)
- Turbulence spectra at scales smaller than 1 meter (1973) (0)
- Global vision: International Council for Science responds (2015) (0)
- The danger of misinformation: the Deniers is so full of misinformation that it is impossible to list it all (2008) (0)
- Generat ion of synt het ic des ign s t orm s for t he Upper Tham es River bas in CFCAS project: Assessment of Water Resources Risk and Vulnerability to Changing Climatic Conditions (2007) (0)
- Climate Change Adaptation and Extreme Weather: Summary Report (2009) (0)
- Principal North Pacific heating anomaly patterns and their relations to the atmospheric circulation (1989) (0)
- Indigenous-Led Nature-Based Solutions for the Climate Crisis: Insights from Canada (2022) (0)
- Integrating Research to Reduce Risk and Gain the Benefits for Development (2015) (0)
- Floods in a Changing Climate: Risk Management: Forewords (2012) (0)
- International Science Addressing Global Agenda 2030 (2018) (0)
- Commentary on Presentation by Daniel Albritton (1998) (0)
- Future Earth Knowledge-Action-Network on Extreme Events and Emergent Risks: Risk-KAN (2019) (0)
- The State of the Poles: Climate Lessons from the International Polar Year, by Christian Bjørnæs and Pål Prestrud (2012) (0)
- Communicating Climate Science, with its Inherent Uncertainties, to Policy Makers (2008) (0)
- Future Seamless Data-Processing and Forecasting System : Achieving United Nation Sustainable Development Goals and Improving Nations Readiness through Continuous Global Science and Technology Advancements (2018) (0)
- The World Climate Research Programme (2013) (0)
- A marked mesoscale pressure-induced wind variation (1985) (0)
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