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Chris Fletcher

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Associate ProfessorDepartment of Geography and Environmental ManagementUniversity of Waterloo

Chris Fletcher

Associate Professor

Department of Geography and Environmental Management

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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41 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 14 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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130

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3,017

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Research

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Latest papers

Assessment of snow water equivalent characteristics in time and space over the Mackenzie River basin
Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques · 2026
Improving surface soil moisture estimates across Canada using reanalysis, in-situ observations, and machine learning
Ecological Informatics · 2026 · senior author
Bias-Corrected Gridded Soil Temperatures (North of 30°N) Between 1982-2023 at 0.05° Resolution
UC Santa Barbara · 2026 · senior author

All 130 publications

130 publications.

Assessment of snow water equivalent characteristics in time and space over the Mackenzie River basin

Mohsen Soltani, Christopher G. Fletcher, Andre R. Erler, Melissa I. Bunn, Hazen A.J Russell

Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques20261 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1080/07011784.2026.2616002

Improving surface soil moisture estimates across Canada using reanalysis, in-situ observations, and machine learning

Neha Kanda, Christopher G. Fletcher

Ecological Informatics2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2026.103940

Bias-Corrected Gridded Soil Temperatures (North of 30°N) Between 1982-2023 at 0.05° Resolution

Tyler C. Herrington, Christopher G. Fletcher

UC Santa Barbara2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.18739/a2qz22k4g

Seasonal and Annual Shifts in Temperate Swamp Biophysical Conditions and Carbon Dioxide (CO2 ) Exchange under a Changing Climate

Oluwabamise Lanre Afolabi, Hongxing He, Christopher G. Fletcher, Maria Lina Strack

2026Open Access

DOI: 10.22541/essoar.177248969.92991086/v1

Application of machine learning to improve reanalysis soil temperatures over the extratropical northern hemisphere

Tyler C. Herrington, Andre R. Erler, Christopher G. Fletcher

Theoretical and Applied Climatology2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1007/s00704-026-06338-0

Evaluating a hierarchy of bias correction methods for ERA5-Land SWE across Canada

Neha Kanda, Christopher G. Fletcher

Environmental Research Communications20256 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1088/2515-7620/aded5a

The importance of model horizontal resolution for improved estimation of snow water equivalent in a mountainous region of western Canada

Samaneh Sabetghadam, Christopher G. Fletcher, Andre R. Erler

Hydrology and earth system sciences20254 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.5194/hess-29-887-2025

The High-Altitude Aerosols, Water Vapor, and Clouds Mission: Concept, Scientific Objectives, and Data Products

Jeffery A. Langille, Landon Rieger, Yann Blanchard, Jean‐Pierre Blanchet, Adam Bourassa, D. A. Degenstein, Yi Huang, Kimberly Strong, Kaley A. Walker, Daniel J Zawada, Scott A. Braun, Jason N. S. Cole, Zen Mariani, Chris Anthony McLinden, Danahé Paquin‐Ricard, Christopher E. Sioris, Zhipeng Qu, Mengistu Wolde, Xun Wang, Hind A. Al‐Abadleh, Parisa A. Ariya, Hugo Beltrami, Rachel Chang, Christopher G. Fletcher, Colin Goldblatt, Patrick Grenier, John Richard Gyakum, Paul J. Kushner, Alejandro Di Luca, Andrew Hugh MacDougall, et al. (39 authors)

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society20254 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1175/bams-d-23-0309.1

Exceptionally rare tropopause folding caused the Sinai’s dragon storm: a forensic meteorological analysis

Mohsen Soltani, Christopher G. Fletcher, Abbas Mofidi, Joël Arnault, Patrick Laux, Harald Günter Kunstmann

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics2025

DOI: 10.1007/s00703-025-01066-y

Validation of pan-Arctic soil temperatures in modern reanalysis and data assimilation systems

Tyler C. Herrington, Christopher G. Fletcher, Heather Kropp

The cryosphere202411 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.5194/tc-18-1835-2024

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Chris Fletcher

Research

Latest papers

Assessment of snow water equivalent characteristics in time and space over the Mackenzie River basin

Improving surface soil moisture estimates across Canada using reanalysis, in-situ observations, and machine learning

Bias-Corrected Gridded Soil Temperatures (North of 30°N) Between 1982-2023 at 0.05° Resolution

Seasonal and Annual Shifts in Temperate Swamp Biophysical Conditions and Carbon Dioxide (CO2 ) Exchange under a Changing Climate

Application of machine learning to improve reanalysis soil temperatures over the extratropical northern hemisphere

Evaluating a hierarchy of bias correction methods for ERA5-Land SWE across Canada

The importance of model horizontal resolution for improved estimation of snow water equivalent in a mountainous region of western Canada

The High-Altitude Aerosols, Water Vapor, and Clouds Mission: Concept, Scientific Objectives, and Data Products

Exceptionally rare tropopause folding caused the Sinai’s dragon storm: a forensic meteorological analysis

Validation of pan-Arctic soil temperatures in modern reanalysis and data assimilation systems

Frequent collaborators

Christopher Fletcher

Paul Kushner

Jean-Pierre Blanchet

Norman O'Neill

Rachel Chang

Richard Kelly

Greg Evans

Stephen Déry

Jonathan Abbatt

Jennifer Murphy

Nadja Steiner

Michel Gosselin

Nathan Gillett

Randall Martin

Chris Bauch

Karen Smith

Christopher Bauch

Claude Duguay

Aaron Berg

Bruno Tremblay