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Overview: The Canadian Shield Region (CSR) is the Precambrian rock-dominated, deglaciated region of Northern America. There are more lakes than anywhere else in the world. As projected climate change intensifies the water and energy cycles, understanding fundamental hydrologic changes in these environments will be critical for predicting and managing water resources. In this study, I am using IMERG to find the potential sensitivity of Canadian shield depressions to inundation depth. Mentor: Chuntao Liu

Overview: Extreme precipitation events have caused catastrophic flooding throughout West Africa and will continue to wreak havoc over these parts as the climate continues to change. For this project, I am analyzing monthly convective shallow, deep convective and stratiform events over the West Africa region and comparing rainfall totals using GPM DPR data. Mentors: Aaron Funk , Courtney Schumacher

Overview: Argentina has a low-density rain gauge network. As a result, there are often challenges in representing accurate estimates of precipitation. Satellite quantitative precipitation estimates (SQPEs) derived from satellite measurements can help fill these gaps and serve a critical role in hydrological and weather forecasting applications. This project explores different gauge bias correction methods of SQPE products using the IMERG Early Run in Argentina to improve SQPE data products. Mentor: Joe Turk

Overview: This project evaluates the GPM IMERG Late product against ground data to develop applications for a hydrological modelling online platform. Mentor: Mircea Grecu

Super Typhoon Nanmadol became one of the strongest typhoons to threaten Japan since records began in 1951. Nanmadol began as a tropical disturbance, basically an area of active thunderstorms, on September 11th southeast of Iwo Jima about midway between Tokyo and Guam. After moving to the southwest for 2 days, this disturbance became better organized and formed into a depression on the 13th. The system then made a counterclockwise loop, moving first back to the northeast before turning back again towards the west. Over this time, the system slowly intensified, becoming Tropical Storm Nanmadol