Library of climate resources

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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  • NASA Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) (Opens in a new Window)

    The POWER Project helps communities become resilient amid observed climate variability through the easy access of solar and meteorological data. The Data Viewer provides a front-end web map with a simple user interface via integrated widgets that is responsive and built for mobile and desktop use.
    Organization:
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
    Resource formats:
    • Interactive
    • Mapped

    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

    Nunavik and Nunatsiavut Regional Climate Information Update (Opens in a new Window)

    This report provides an overview of the main large scale and local scale climate drivers of change in Nunavik and Nunatsiavut, with an in-depth focus on coastal climate. The report also presents an update of climate variability and trends, presents key baseline climate indices relevant to local needs, and presents projections using time series and maps for the near- and long-term future.
    Organization:
    ArcticNet
    Resource formats:
    • Vulnerability or risk assessment

    Oceanographic activities (Opens in a new Window)

    The Oceanographic Activities landing page contains links to multiple ocean monitoring programs, datasets, and portals including observations of tides, ocean currents, pH, salinity, temperature, ocean colour, and phytoplankton from various stations across Canada. Data are available for download in tabular, graphical, and other formats.
    Organization:
    Government of Canada: Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource formats:
    • Data files

    Oceans 3.0 Data Portal (Opens in a new Window)

    Users can search, preview, download and visualize archives and live ocean data from a vast array of oceanographic sensors, cabled observations, mobile platforms and autonomous instruments. Data are collected on ocean physics, chemistry, biology and geology. These ocean observatories generate ‘big data’ openly accessible through the Oceans 3.0 data management system.
    Organization:
    Ocean Networks Canada
    Resource formats:
    • Interactive
    • Graphical
    • Data management

    Scenarios Network for Alaska and Arctic Planning (Opens in a new Window)

    Scenarios Network for Arctic Planning (SNAP) produces downscaled, historical and projected climate data for sub-Arctic and Arctic regions of Alaska and Canada. Other project-specific data covers much larger regions. Users can search for datasets of interest using keywords and filter datasets based on relevance, name, and date last modified. Analysis tools are also available for Alaska wildfire, climate projections, climate histories, daily precipitation, extreme weather, historical sea ice, modelled sea ice coverage, and sea ice and wind interactions.
    Organization:
    University of Alaska Fairbanks
    Resource formats:
    • Data files
    • Graphical

    Snow Survey Data (Opens in a new Window)

    The Snow Survey Data dataset contains historical snow survey records from manual and electronic monitoring sites across BC. These data play a major role in flood forecasting and determining snow pack, water levels and stream flow conditions. Records may be searched using an interactive map and data are available for download in tabular format.
    Organization:
    Government of British Columbia
    Resource formats:
    • Data files
    • Interactive
    • Mapped

    Weather Radar Imagery (Opens in a new Window)

    Weather Radar Imagery contains an interactive map of current radar tracking of precipitation across Alberta. This map allows users to visualize movement and pattern of recent snow or rainfall in a specific time period in real time. Data is presented in mapped format only.
    Organization:
    Government of Alberta
    Resource formats:
    • Interactive
    • Mapped


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