The Northern Tornadoes Project
The Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP), founded at Western University in 2017 with the support of social impact fund ImpactWX, aims to better detect tornado occurrence throughout Canada, improve severe and extreme weather understanding and prediction, mitigate against harm to people and property, and investigate future implications due to climate change.
Western University also partners with the University of Manitoba, Pelmorex's The Weather Network, Instant Weather and CatIQ, and closely collaborates with Environment and Climate Change Canada and several Canadian and international universities on this Project.
New! Information on the 2024 NTP/NHP Summer Internships is now available here.
New! NTP's tornado warning performance assessment for Canada has been peer reviewed and published in Atmosphere-Ocean here.
New! NTP's assessment of wind speeds associated with the Alonsa, MB EF4 tornado has been peer-reviewed and published in the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics here.
The latest NTP Annual Report covering the 2022 season can be found here.
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Project Leaders
Greg Kopp
ImpactWX Chair in Severe Storms Engineering, and Lead researcher, the Northern Tornadoes Project
David Sills
Executive Director, the Northern Tornadoes Project
