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This is a collection of links to climate datasets, tools, guidance and related resources. The sources include the federal government, provincial and territorial governments, national professional organizations, climate consortia and established international organizations. It can be useful for impact, vulnerability and risk assessments, and for adaptation planning.

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Explanation of the different resource types
  • data product - downloadable climate dataset
  • tool - builds on a dataset with further analyses and/or visualization
  • guidance - provides direction on the use of climate information or on conducting climate-related assessments
  • codes and standards - guidance and best practice documents for climate resilient design
  • additional resources include educational and awareness-raising material, impact assessments and scientific syntheses

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  • Mackenzie DataStream (Opens in a new Window)

    Mackenzie DataStream is an open access platform for sharing and exploring water data in the Mackenzie River Basin. Data are currently collected by community monitors with the help of scientists and accredited laboratories, who look for dissolved metals, turbidity, temperature, chlorophyll-a, as well as oil and gas chemicals. An interactive map may be used to select stations and locations of interest. Data are available for download in graphical and tabular formats. Please note that this resource is not supported by all internet browsers.
    Organization:
    The Gordon Foundation, Government of Northwest Territories
    Resource formats:
    • Data files
    • Interactive
    • Graphical
    • Mapped

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    Manitoba Drought Monitor (Opens in a new Window)

    The Manitoba Drought Monitor presents hydrologic forecast information, reports, current conditions, and flood alerts. Water availability and drought conditions are made available each month for a variety of locations in Manitoba. An interactive map is also available to view rivers and lakes, groundwater, precipitation, reservoirs, and drought for various locations in Canada. General information about drought and the history of drought in Manitoba is also available.
    Organization:
    Government of Manitoba
    Resource formats:
    • Data files
    • Graphical
    • Mapped
    • Tool

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    Monitoring Aquifers: Provincial Groundwater Observation Well Network (Opens in a new Window)

    The British Columbia Provincial Groundwater Observation Well Network (PGOWN) is comprised of groundwater level and chemistry monitoring stations which are cooperatively operated by the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations and the Ministry of Environment. There are around 190 monitoring stations distributed across BC. Data include historical and current groundwater level and chemistry. Data are available for download in tabular formats.
    Organization:
    Government of British Columbia
    Resource formats:
    • Data files
    • Interactive
    • Mapped

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    Monthly Climate Summaries (Opens in a new Window)

    The Monthly Climate Summaries dataset contains monthly summaries of temperature, precipitation, degree days and sunshine hours- including averages and extremes- at monitoring locations across Canada. Data can be searched by month and by province. Historic data are available for all stations. However, the historical range varies from station to station.
    Organization:
    Government of Canada: Environment and Climate Change Canada
    Resource formats:
    • Data files

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    NeraCoos Data (Opens in a new Window)

    NeraCoos Data contains data products and tools summarizing eastern buoy, station, and forecasts data. Historical and future data are available as point data. Climate variables include wind speed, wind gust, air temperature, water temperature at varying depths, and air temperature; they are updated from each station and users can compare stations. Forecasts of coastal flooding and erosion, and 48-hour wave and wind are also available.
    Organization:
    Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems (NERACOOS), The Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Alliance for Coastal Technologies (ACT), Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA)
    Resource formats:
    • Data files
    • Graphical
    • Mapped
    • Tool

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    Newfoundland and Labrador Water Resources Portal (NLWRP) (Opens in a new Window)

    The Water Resources Portal displays a wide variety of water resources data that includes: drinking water quality data and treatment profiles; protection areas for ground and surface water supplies; boil water advisories; ambient water quality data, station profiles and watersheds; real time water quality data; hydrometric station data and station profiles; climate station profiles; dam locations and sewage outfall locations.
    Organization:
    Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
    Resource formats:
    • Data files
    • Interactive
    • Graphical
    • Mapped
    • Tool

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    Normales climatiques du Québec 1981-2010 (in French only) (Opens in a new Window)

    1981-2010 Climate Normals for Quebec contains climate normals, calculated over a 30-year period from climate monitoring program data, that indicate the average climate that can be expected at a given location. Users can select stations via an interactive map. Static maps of climate normals are also available in PDF form. Historical data are available as point and gridded data. Normals available for temperature (min, mean and max) and precipitation (rain, snow and total).
    Organization:
    Government of Quebec
    Resource formats:
    • Data files
    • Interactive
    • Mapped

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    North American WaterWatch (Opens in a new Window)

    A map depicting short-term changes in streamflow conditions, computed at stream gauges. The color of each stream gauge represents real-time streamflow compared to percentiles of historical daily streamflow for that day of the year. When the stream gauges on the map are clicked, a pop-up appears with pertinent gauge information including a summary of gauge statistics, a graph of gauge discharge, a flood tracking chart and the gauges flooding forecast.
    Organization:
    International Joint Commission, US Geological Survey, Government of Canada: Environment and Climate Change Canada
    Resource formats:
    • Interactive
    • Mapped
    • Tool

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    Nova Scotia Flood Event Database (Opens in a new Window)

    The Nova Scotia Flood History database contains historical records of flood events in Nova Scotia from 1992 to February 1, 2015. Each record in the database represents a single news article from The Chronicle Herald. The database provides the best matched city where the flood event occurred, the date the story was published, a snippet from the article's full story, other places and the county referenced in the news article (if available), and a citation for the record. Historical flood events dating back to 1759 until 1987 are also projected onto an interactive map.
    Organization:
    Government of Nova Scotia, Dalhousie University, The Chronicle Herald
    Resource formats:
    • Data files
    • Interactive
    • Mapped

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