David Sills (meteorologist)
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David M. L. Sills is a Canadian academic, severe weather scientist and meteorologist, currently serving as Executive Director of the Northern Tornadoes Project at the University of Western Ontario.[1]
Education and career[edit]
Sills earned a BSc and Certificate of Meteorology in 1993 and a PhD in Atmospheric Science in 1998, all from York University.[2] He served as a Severe Weather Scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada in Toronto from 1999 to 2019.[3] In April 2019, he joined the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario as Executive Director of the Northern Tornadoes Project, a research initiative he co-founded with Greg Kopp and with the support of Toronto-based social impact fund ImpactWX.[4][5]
Research[edit]
Sills has led and contributed to research on Canadian tornadoes[6] and other thunderstorm-related winds[7] and served as an international principal investigator in the American VORTEX2 tornado field study in 2009 and 2010.[8] He led the development of a new national tornado climatology for Canada in 2009[9] as well as the Canadian implementation of the Enhanced Fujita Scale for wind damage rating in 2013.[10][11] With the Northern Tornadoes Project, Sills directs the effort to detect, assess and document all tornadoes that occur in Canada.[12][13][14]
Sills has also studied mesoscale phenomena such as lake breezes and their influence on severe thunderstorms and hazardous air pollution.[15][16] He was a co-principal investigator for several related Canadian field studies including ELBOW 2001, BAQS-Met 2007, UNSTABLE 2008 and ECPASS 2015.[17]
He has been interviewed for various Canadian and US media including television, radio, newspapers, magazines, podcasts and related websites.[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]
Awards[edit]
Sills received the CMOS Rube Hornstein Medal in Operational Meteorology in 2016.[27]
References[edit]
- ↑ "David Sills profile". The Conversation. 5 August 2022.
- ↑ "David Sills profile". The Conversation. 5 August 2022.
- ↑ "David Sills profile". The Conversation. 5 August 2022.
- ↑ "Western News - Tornado alley childhood shaped meteorologist". Western News. June 13, 2019.
- ↑ "ImpactWX Projects". ImpactWX.
- ↑ "News - Tornadoes in Canada: Everything you need to know". The Weather Network.
- ↑ "What's a derecho and why is it so destructive? The science behind this powerful storm". CBC News.
- ↑ "VORTEX2 Team". nssl.noaa.gov.
- ↑ Sills, David M. L.; Sills, David M. L. (November 5, 2012). "Using Tornado, Lightning, and Population Data to Identify Tornado Prone Areas in Canada". AMS – via ams.confex.com.
- ↑ "Implementation and Application of the EF-Scale in Canada". AMS. November 6, 2014 – via ams.confex.com.
- ↑ "Enhanced Fujita scale for wind damage". Government of Canada. 10 May 2013.
- ↑
Sills, David M. L. (December 23, 2020). "The Northern Tornadoes Project: Uncovering Canada's True Tornado Climatology". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. AMS. 101 (12): E2113–E2132. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0012.1 – via journals.ametsoc.org. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Kopp, Gregory; Sills, David; Brimelow, Julian (August 21, 2022). "Canada is witnessing more thunderstorm impacts than ever before". The Conversation – via theconversation.com.
- ↑ "Before Canadian scientists can study tornadoes, they have to find them". AGU-EOS. March 22, 2019.
- ↑ Sills, D. M. L.; Brook, J. R.; Levy, I.; Makar, P. A.; Zhang, J.; Taylor, P. A. (August 5, 2011). "Lake breezes in the southern Great Lakes region and their influence during BAQS-Met 2007". Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 11 (15): 7955–7973. Bibcode:2011ACP....11.7955S. doi:10.5194/acp-11-7955-2011 – via acp.copernicus.org.
- ↑ "ELBOW 2001 – Studying the relationship between lake breezes and severe weather: Overview and preliminary results". AMS – via ams.confex.com.
- ↑ Sills, David M. L.; Joe, Paul I. (August 8, 2019). "From Pioneers to Practitioners: A Short History of Severe Thunderstorm Research and Forecasting in Canada". Atmosphere-Ocean. 57 (4): 249–261. Bibcode:2019AtO....57..249S. doi:10.1080/07055900.2019.1673145 – via Taylor and Francis+NEJM. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ "Kentucky tornado system was 'in a class of its own': expert". CTV National News. December 13, 2021.
- ↑ Vermes, Jason (October 16, 2022). "More Canadians are in the path of tornadoes — but don't always know they're coming". CBC Radio.
- ↑ Chung, Christine (May 22, 2022). "At Least Six Dead After Severe Thunderstorms Lash Parts of Canada". The New York Times.
- ↑ https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-129-the-trailbreaker/clip/15891380-top-tornado-researcher-david-sills-joins-discuss-weather
- ↑ Blackley, Shelby (September 27, 2018). "Are tornadoes in Canada on the rise? A look at the dangerous storms". The Globe and Mail.
- ↑ "Toronto gets a jolt of 3D lightning technology". Toronto Star. January 4, 2013.
- ↑ "News - May 31, 1985 outbreak: How a 'lost' 14th tornado was found". The Weather Network.
- ↑ Messenger, Scott (January 9, 2012). "Predicting the storm - How computers are replacing humans to forecast the weather". Canadian Geographic.
- ↑ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/northern-tornadoes-project-tornadoes-north-of-the-border/id1373312240?i=1000468752277 "Weather Geeks: Northern Tornadoes Project - Tornadoes North of the Border"
- ↑ "David Sills".
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