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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  • Coastal Adaptation Toolkit Adapting to Climate Change in Coastal Communities of Atlantic Canada: Part 1 Guidance for Selecting Adaptation Options (Opens in a new Window)

    Part 1 Guidance for Selecting Adaptation Options, introduces climate change adaptation for the coastal regions of the Atlantic Provinces. It describes the five main adaptation approaches, describes climate change impacts in the Atlantic Region, characterizes the coastal environments, presents criteria for adaptation decision-making, and links adaptation tools and strategies to the coastal settings of the Atlantic Provinces.
    Organization:
    CLIMAtlantic
    Resource formats:
    • Educational and awareness-raising material

    Coastal Adaptation Toolkit Adapting to Climate Change in Coastal Communities of Atlantic Canada: Part 2 Land Use Planning Tools & Adaptation Options (Opens in a new Window)

    Part 2 Land Use Planning Tools Adaptation Options, presents over 50 land use planning tools for coastal climate change adaptation. The tools and examples in this guidance document are the land use planning options of the CLIMAtlantic web-based Coastal Adaptation Tool. The document also includes overviews of the land planning and management frameworks and legislation that could support coastal climate change adaptation in each of the four Atlantic Provinces and First Nations
    Organization:
    CLIMAtlantic
    Resource formats:
    • Educational and awareness-raising material

    Coastal Adaptation Toolkit Adapting to Climate Change in Coastal Communities of Atlantic Canada: Part 3 Coastal Intervention Options & Engineering Considerations (Opens in a new Window)

    Part 3 Coastal Intervention Options and Engineering Considerations, presents over two dozen intervention options to manage coastal flooding and erosion, describes the suitability of the tools for different coastal conditions and climate change adaptation objectives (e.g., short to long-term, low, medium or high cost), and identifies the technical and permitting requirements for the adaptation approaches. The tools and examples in this volume are the engineering options of the CLIMAtlantic web-based Coastal Adaptation Tool
    Organization:
    CLIMAtlantic
    Resource formats:
    • Educational and awareness-raising material

    Coastal Erosion Data (Opens in a new Window)

    Coastal Erosion Data displays trends of coastal erosion and shoreline displacement based on specific measurement sites. Users can search for a location along the shoreline of New Brunswick using an interactive map. This will allow government, academic institutions, and consultants to have access to coastal erosion data, and raise awareness on risks of erosion.
    Organization:
    Government of New Brunswick
    Resource formats:
    • Mapped

    Engineering Climate Data Sets (Opens in a new Window)

    Engineering Climate Datasets contain: Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) Files, the Canadian Weather Energy and Engineering Datasets (CWEEDS) and the Canadian Weather Year for Energy Calculation (CWEC) dataset. The IDF dataset contains short duration rainfall Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) statistics. Data are presented as tables and graphs for various locations across Canada. CWEEDS provides hourly and long-term weather conditions at monitoring stations across Canada with at least 10 years of records between 1998 and 2014. CWEC datasets contain 12 calculated "Typical Meteorological Months" selected from a 30 years of records, including daily global radiation, dry-bulb temperature, dew-point temperature and wind speed.
    Organization:
    Government of Canada: Environment and Climate Change Canada
    Resource formats:
    • Data files
    • Graphical

    Federal Flood Mapping Guidelines Series (Opens in a new Window)

    These are a series of evergreen guidelines that will help advance flood mapping activities across Canada. The publication of these documents will contribute to better addressing overland flooding – Canada's costliest hazard – by strengthening flood mapping across the country.
    Organization:
    Government of Canada: Natural Resources Canada
    Resource formats:

    Five-day Forecast (Opens in a new Window)

    5 day forecasts provides 5 day flood forecasts to the public to view and use. Various data are collected and analyzed to be used in models that create forecasts for the public. Historical Water Levels at various locations in New Brunswick from 1962 to 2012 are also available.
    Organization:
    Government of New Brunswick
    Resource formats:
    • Data files

    Flood Information (Opens in a new Window)

    The Flood Information tool showcases historical flood polygons on top of GeoNB base maps, and overlays flood polygons with databases of property maps and civic addresses. Descriptions of the flood data are also provided. Examples of data products include Forest Soils, Flood Map Indices, and Flood Risk Areas and Historical Floods.
    Organization:
    Government of New Brunswick
    Resource formats:
    • Mapped

    Flood Map Index (Opens in a new Window)

    The Flood Map Index provides awareness of the areas at risk of flooding and support for improved decision making for activities and development in flood prone areas. On an interactive map, users can view scanned, black and white images of New Brunswick Flood Risk Map Sheets for select regions in the province.
    Organization:
    Government of New Brunswick
    Resource formats:
    • Mapped

    Guide For Integrating Climate Change Considerations into Municipal Asset Management (Opens in a new Window)

    This guide aims to provide municipal staff with a process for systematically building climate resiliency into assets management policies, plans and practices. This guide focuses on the integration of climate change within infrastructure services and/or risk management frameworks. Examples from practice leaders, lessons learned and tools for building climate resilience are included.
    Organization:
    Federation of Canadian Municipalities
    Resource formats:
    • Adaptation planning


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