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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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  • GeoWeb Water Portal (Opens in a new Window)

    The GeoWeb Water Portal interactive map displays historical and current water quantity, quality, and climate data for stations across BC for the period of 1886 to 2018. Specific measures include temperature, precipitation, snow depth, water quality, depth to groundwater, and others. Data are available in graphical format for each monitoring station.
    Organization:
    Government of British Columbia
    Resource formats:
    • Interactive
    • Graphical
    • Mapped
    • Tool

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    Gridded Hydrologic Model Output (Opens in a new Window)

    The Gridded Hydrologic Model Output page provides access to gridded, 1/16-degree (roughly 35 km2) hydrologic projections for four watersheds in British Columbia. Users can select locations of interest on a gridded map. Hydrological variables including precipitation, flow, evapotranspiration, and runoff are available for download under various climate scenarios in NetCDF, ASCII, and Arc formats.
    Organization:
    Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium
    Resource formats:
    • Data files
    • Interactive
    • Mapped
    • Tool

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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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    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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    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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    Nunavut Permafrost Databank (Opens in a new Window)

    The Nunavut Permafrost Databank contains permafrost information for Nunavut. Information includes permafrost temperature and depth data and best practices and guidelines for building on permafrost. A mapping tool displays permafrost information in specific geographic locations. Historical data are available as point and polygon data. Additionally, users could search and select between time periods and locations of interest.
    Organization:
    Government of Nunavut
    Resource formats:
    • Data files
    • Interactive
    • Mapped

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    Ontario Climate Data Portal (Opens in a new Window)

    The Ontario Climate Data Portal contains statistically and dynamically downscaled climate projections under various emissions scenarios. It incorporates 10km x 10km resolution projections using a combined downscaling technique based on 209 ensemble members of global and regional climate model results released under the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). Data, maps, figures, and reports are provided at a daily temporal scale.
    Organization:
    York University
    Resource formats:
    • Data files
    • Interactive
    • Scientific synthesis
    • Graphical
    • Mapped
    • Tool
    • Adaptation planning

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