Francis W. Zwiers

University of Victoria — Canada

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Climate variability and models(223), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations(138), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics(55), Hydrology and Drought Analysis(43), Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research(32)

Publications364 total

Precipitation Trends in Version 2 of the Canadian Homogenized Monthly Precipitation Dataset
ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN·2026
Precipitation Trends in Version 2 of the Canadian Homogenized Monthly Precipitation Dataset
Figshare·2026Open Access
Precipitation Trends in Version 2 of the Canadian Homogenized Monthly Precipitation Dataset
Figshare·2026Open Access
Observed Changes in Canada’s Snowfall as Inferred from Precipitation and Daily Mean Temperatures
ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN·2025· 1 cited
Observed Surface Wind Speed Trends Inferred from Homogenized in Situ Data and Reanalysis Datasets
ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN·2025
Constrained Estimates of Externally Forced Past and Future Warming for Canada
Earth s Future·2025Open Access
On the impacts of changing data availability on climate trend analysis 
2025Open Access
Should we think of observationally constrained multidecade climate projections as predictions?
Science Advances·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Constrained Earth system models show a stronger reduction in future Northern Hemisphere snowmelt water
Nature Climate Change·2025· 16 citedOpen Access
Constrained estimates of externally forced past and future warming for Canada
2025Open Access
How much of the historical global mean surface temperature record is needed to well constrain projections of future warming?
2025Open Access
Constraining the entire Earth system projections for more reliable climate change adaptation planning
Science Advances·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Increasing certainty in projected local extreme precipitation change
Nature Communications·2025· 13 citedOpen Access
Detection and Attribution of Changes in Precipitation Extremes in China and Its Different Climate Zones
Journal of Climate·2024· 1 cited
Multivariate Canadian Downscaled Climate Scenarios for CMIP6 (CanDCS‐M6)
Geoscience Data Journal·2024· 10 citedOpen Access
Constraining Projected Changes in Rare Intense Precipitation Events Across Global Land Regions
Geophysical Research Letters·2024· 16 citedOpen Access
Future flow and water temperature scenarios in an impounded drainage basin: implications for summer flow and temperature management downstream of the dam
Climatic Change·2023· 4 cited
Diagnosing the ability of reservoir operations to meet hydropower production and fisheries needs under climate change in a western cordillera drainage basin
Climatic Change·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Towards reducing the high cost of parameter sensitivity analysis in hydrologic modeling: a regional parameter sensitivity analysis approach
Hydrology and earth system sciences·2023· 6 citedOpen Access
Future flow and water temperature scenarios in an impounded drainage basin: Implications for summer flow and temperature management downstream of the dam
Research Square (Research Square)·2023Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Xuebin Zhang(20), Gabriele C. Hegerl(11), Nathan P. Gillett(10), Viatcheslav Kharin(7), Peter A. Stott(7), Lisa V. Alexander(6), Jana Sillmann(6), Hans von Storch(5), Guilong Li(4), V. V. Kharin(4), Ying Sun(4), Albert Klein Tank(3), Geert Jan van Oldenborgh(3), Pascal Yiou(3), P. D. Jones(3), Robert Vautard(3), Hui Wan(3), Gerald A. Meehl(3), Neville Nicholls(2), David R. Easterling(2)