Location of the real-time webcam photos (available every 5 minutes) taken from the TSI office in downtown Vancouver, facing WSW. This is a great site for seeing weather systems approaching Vancouver (from the west) and other everyday weather phenomena, or verifying field results! See the photo tab for some examples. English Bay, the mouth of False Creek, the Burrard Street Bridge, West Vancouver and the UBC endowment lands are all visible..

Established in 1957, the UBC climatology station at Totem Field measures most atmospheric variables, including: temperature, humidity, wind, precipitation, snow, and radiation. Historically, readings were manually taken every morning until the installation of an electronic data logger in 1990. The instrumentation of the UBC climatology station conforms to the Environment Canada standards. Instruments included are: Stevenson screen, 10 m level wind vane, various rainfall gauges, a snow depth acoustic sounder, a multitude of radiation instruments, and soil temperature sensors.

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Have you ever wondered what the green glow in the night sky emanating from UBC campus is all about? The UBC Lidar (light detection and ranging) is housed on Totem Field, and emits a green laser beam directly upwards, that may produce a green 'glow' when passing through low clouds at night. This lidar was the first of several mobile lidar stations across Canada as part of CORALNet (Canadian Operational Research Aerosol Lidar Network) in order to study long-range transport of aerosols in the lower atmosphere and air quality issues. It has been running continuously since April 2008, all first-look imagery is available online.

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van der Kamp, D., McKendry, I.G., Wong, M., Stull, R. (2008). LiDAR Ceilometer Observations and Modeling of a Fireworks Plume in Vancouver, British Columbia. Atmospheric Environment, 42, 7174-7178
van der Kamp, D. and McKendry, I.G. (2008). Comparison of Tethered Balloon Vertical Profiles of Particulate Matter Size Distributions with LiDAR Ceilometer Backscatter in the Nocturnal Urban Boundary Layer. International J. Environment and Pollution, submitted.
Goodwin, N.R. Coops, N.C, Tooke, R.T., Christen, A., Voogt, J.A. (2009). Characterising urban surface cover and structure with airborne LiDAR technology'. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 35, 3, 297-309.
McKendry I. G., van der Kamp D., Strawbridge K.B., Christen A., Crawford B. (2009). Simultaneous observations of boundary-layer aerosol layers with CL31 ceilometer and 1064/532 nm LiDAR. Atmospheric Environments, 43, 36, 5847-5852.

The UBC Earth and Ocean Science Weather Forecast Research Team produces real-time Ensemble Weather Forecasts for Western Canada at various model scales. Included is a 2-day forecast for UBC campus!

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One of many Air Quality monitoring stations across the Lower Fraser Valley. The equipment is housed in a large trailer at then back of Kitsilano Secondary School. This is easily accessible if you've ever wondered what an AQ monitoring station looks like, though no access is allowed inside the trailer to the public. Current measurements: carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, and PM2.5. See additional resources tab for a link to daily measurements.

The 28 m tall Vancouver-Sunset Urban Climate Research Tower was established in 1978 and has provided semi-continuous data for meteorological, climatological, hydrological, and biogeochemical research. Of particular interest is the effect of land modification (i.e. converting open spaces into urban spaces) on the land-atmosphere exchange. Some areas of research include, but are not limited to: radiation budgets, energy and water balances, vertical distribution of temperature and wind velocity, and much much more! Over 45 papers have been published based on the data collected from the research tower. It is also part of the IAUC Urban Flux Network, MUDH, and the CFCAS network EPiCC (2006-2010). Data is currently available online.

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