Reports & Publications

The Rio Tinto Research Chair in Climate Change and Water Security produces a wide range of research outputs including peer-reviewed publications, technical reports, datasets, and presentations. This section is updated regularly as new research findings become available.

Publications

  • Cardinal, E., Thériault, J. M., Stewart, R. E., Thompson, H. D., and Déry, S. J., 2023: Climatology of and factors contributing to occurrences of near-freezing temperatures and associated precipitation near Terrace, British Columbia, Canada, Atmosphere-Ocean, 62(2), 145-164, doi: 10.1080/07055900.2023.2270560. Full Document
  • Déry, S. J., Martins, E. G., Owens, P. N., and Petticrew, E. L., 2024: Extreme hydrometeorological events induce abrupt and widespread freshwater temperature changes across the Pacific Northwest of North America, Communications Earth & Environment, 5, 228, doi: 10.1038/s43247-024-01407-6. Full Document
  • Gilbert, D. E., Morris, J. E., Kaveney, A. R., Déry, S. J., 2022: Sub-hourly water temperature data collected across the Nechako Watershed, 2019-2021, Data in Brief, 43, 108425. Full Document
  • Hurley, K. M., Morris, J. E., Cardinal, E., Gilbert, D. E., Kaveney, A. R., Sobral, B. S., Thompson, H. D., Thériault, J. M, and Déry, S. J., 2025: The Tahtsa Ranges Atmospheric River Experiment (TRARE): Experimental design and case studies, Discover Atmosphere, 3, 12. Full Document
  • Khorsandi, M. and Déry, S. J., 2025: Daily hindcasted water temperature dataset for 11 sites across the Nechako Watershed, submitted to Data in Brief.
  • Khorsandi, M. and Déry, S. J., 2025: A novel method for frequency analysis of high water temperatures using temperature duration curves in a partially regulated watershed, Science of the Total Environment, 968, 178863. Full Document
  • Kokoszka, J. E., Broeke, D., Calder-Sutt, F., Khorsandi, M., Tavares, M. A. and Déry, S. J., 2025: Updating "Sub-hourly water temperature data collected across the Nechako Watershed, 2019-2021" to 2024 and with supplemental sites, Data in Brief, 61, 111710. Full Document
  • Richards-Thomas, T. S., Déry, S. J., Stewart, R. E., and Thériault, J. M., 2024: Climatological Context of the Mid-November 2021 Floods in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, Weather and Climate Extremes, 45, 100705, doi: 10.1016/j.wace.2024.100705. Full Document
  • Richards-Thomas, T. and Déry, S. J., 2025: Moisture transport to British Columbia's Upper Nechako Watershed associated with three atmospheric rivers, Discover Atmosphere, 3, 9. Full Document
  • Sobral, B. S. and Déry, S. J., 2023: Spatio-temporal distribution and trend analysis of atmospheric rivers affecting British Columbia's Nechako Watershed, International Journal of Climatology, 43(14), 6720-6732, doi: 10.1002/joc.8230. Full Document
  • Sobral, B. S. and Déry, S. J., 2024: Water budget input linked to atmospheric rivers in British Columbia's Nechako River Basin, Hydrological Processes, 38(10), e15301. Full Document

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