TO2015 Pan and Parapan American Games Atmospheric Monitoring Observations

The Pan and Parapan American Games are a regional international summer sporting event, staged every 4 years in the year prior to the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. The 2015 Games were awarded to Canada on November 6, 2009, by the Pan American Sports Organization. The XVII Pan American Games and the V Parapan American Games were held in Toronto, Canada, from July 10–26, 2015, and from August 7–15, 2015, respectively. Canada welcomed the 40 other countries/nations of the Americas to Toronto and the municipalities of the Greater Golden Horseshoe Area in Ontario where the summer sports events of the 2015 Pan and Parapan American Games were hosted. Environment and Climate Change Canada’s (ECCC) mission and mandate for the TO2015 Games was to provide essential services for enhanced weather monitoring and forecasting and for local-level preparedness activities. The key objectives were to enhance public safety and decision making by: • issuing weather warnings; • forecasting weather conditions; • supporting critical weather sensitive government services; and • monitoring atmospheric conditions. The funding received by ECCC was used to provide state-of-the-art, 24/7, dedicated,…

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Environment and Climate Change Canada

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2021-07-28