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AnemoScope is the result of a collaboration between Recherche
en Prevision Numerique of Environment Canada and the
Canadian Hydraulics Center of the National Research Council
Canada.
Recherche Prévision Numérique (RPN) is responsible for the research and development (R&D) of
the modelling component of the Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) System for the Canadian
Meteorology Center (CMC) and the Regional Meteorological Centers of the Meteorological
Service of Canada (MSC), Environment Canada (EC). Our research activities cover a wide range
of applications from severe/extreme weather event predictions to monitoring of the ozone in
the polar vortex.
Numerical Weather Prediction modelling has been a traditional core activity of MSC for the
last four decades. The modelling component is the cornerstone of the Environment Canada
Weather Environmental Prediction (WEP) System and the Atmospheric Environment Prediction
Directorate's (AEPD) operational program that provides the fundamental guidance for the
MSC weather warning program. RPN is also an important component of the MSC's modelling
capability in support of both the Weather and Environmental Prediction (WEP) and Clean
Environment Business Lines.
The Canadian Hydraulics Centre (CHC) is a full-cost recovery technology Centre of the
National Research Council (NRC), Canada's leading scientific research organization. With
a staff of 3,000, NRC institutes across Canada carry out research and help industry in
many areas, ranging from among others, biotechnology, astrophysics and molecular sciences,
to marine dynamics and civil engineering.
The Canadian Hydraulics Centre is Canada's largest coastal and hydraulic engineering
laboratory. It is equipped with some of the world's most sophisticated technology and
facilities for providing physical and numerical modelling and analysis services to the
engineering community in the general field of hydraulics, specializing in coastal
engineering, environmental hydraulics, and cold regions technology. Its laboratory
originally developed within the Division of Mechanical Engineering, occupying its present
location in 1945. Over the years various additions have been made, bringing its size up
to 8400 m2.
In a Canadian context, the Centre provides a national focus for technology development
and applications, links national and international research and professional organizations,
and supports Canadian activity in global markets.
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