Karen Garcia Perdomo
Position
Contact
Credentials
BSc (UVic)
Area of expertise
Atmospheric circulation; extreme weather; cloud physics; climate change
Thesis topic:
The stratospheric water budget and investigating overshooting convection in the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere.
Publications:
Kirchmeier-Young, M. C., Malinina, E., Barber, Q. E., Garcia Perdomo, K., Curasi, S. R., Liang, Y., Jain, P., Gillett, N. P., Parisien, M.-A., Cannon, A. J., Lima, A. R., Arora, V. K., Boulanger, Y., Melton, J. R., Van Vliet, L., & Zhang, X. (2024). Human driven climate change increased the likelihood of the 2023 record area burned in Canada. NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science, 7(1), Article 316. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00841-9
Malinina, E., Gillett, N. P., Garcia Perdomo, K., Fogarty, C. (2025) Attribution of extreme winds during 2022 post-tropical cyclone Fiona in Atlantic Canada. [Manuscript submitted for publication].
Presentations:
Malinina, E., Gillett, N. P., Menelaou, K., Kirchmeier-Young, M. C., Liang, Y., Garcia Perdomo, K., Stevens, R., Surcel, M., Tamminga, A., 2025. Canadian Rapid Extreme Weather Event Attribution system: a year of results. Canadian Oceanographic and Meteorological Society (CMOS) 58th Congress.