Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Université de Montréal

js.king@umontreal.ca

James King is an Associate Professor in the department of geography at Université de Montréal with training in geomorphology and atmospheric sciences in Canada, United States, and United Kingdom. His research spans several subjects related to the emission, transport, and deposition of aerosols by the wind, to identify their impacts on surrounding environmental dynamics and climate processes. Through direct ground observations, remote sensing, and historical climatic observations, his research group (LEE – Laboratoire d’Érosion Éolienne) identifies the controlling environmental and anthropogenic factors that modify the frequency and emissions of aerosols. Furthermore, analysis of high-resolution climatic models (e.g., CORDEX, WRF) permits the group to identify the role of atmospheric processes, in the past and in the future, in influencing the movement of aerosols from local to continental scales. Recently published studies have clearly documented the influence of aerosols on climate in addition to the gross underestimation of their magnitude and frequency of emissions in Canada’s North where direct observations are infrequent.

Dust ground-based measurements, cold-climate emission analyses, dust model validation.

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