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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Alberta Climate and Atlas Maps (Opens in a new Window)
Alberta Climate and Atlas Maps contains gridded and mapped displays of historically observed temperature, precipitation, soil moisture, drought, fire indices, radiation, wind, growing season length, frost, and an agroclimatic atlas. Data are presented as summaries across the monitoring period, which varies depending on the variable and location(s) of interest. Data is available graphically and as mapped products.

Organization:

Government of Alberta
Resource formats:
Interactive

Mapped
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Atlas de vulnérabilité aux vagues de chaleur et aux aléas hydrométéorologiques (in French only) (Opens in a new Window)
This atlas aims to inform you about the geographic vulnerability of Quebec populations to heat waves and floods. The atlas was developed by the Université de Laval Department of Geography and Department of Geomatics Sciences, in partnership with the Ouranos Consortium and the Institut national de santé publique du Québec.

Organization:

University of Laval, Ouranos, Government of Quebec
Resource formats:
Interactive

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Vulnerability or risk assessment

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BC Agriculture Water Calculator (Opens in a new Window)
The BC Agricultural Water Calculator uses 10 years of historical climate data, from 2001 to 2010, to calculate how much water farmers should need for their farm in the "new climate normal", which farmers can reference in their water licence applications. Government of BC staff involved with water authorizations also use this calculator when reviewing applications. Data are available for individual land parcels in tabular format.

Organization:

Government of Canada, Government of British Columbia, Partnership for Water Sustainability in British Columbia, Investment Agriculture Foundation, Okanagan Basin Water Board
Resource formats:
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Interactive

Scientific synthesis

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BC Water Resources Atlas (Opens in a new Window)
The BC Water Resources Atlas is an iMapBC application with enhanced functionality to display detailed water related data, including watersheds, water quantity and quality monitoring sites, aquifers, water wells and flood protection works. This tool presents raster data for a variety of layers.

Organization:

Government of British Columbia
Resource formats:
Mapped
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DNR Coastal Flood Risk Maps (Opens in a new Window)
DNR Coastal Flood Maps contain static coastal flood risk maps for different regions in Nova Scotia at a scale of (1: 10 000) scale. Flooding risk is derived from sea level rise and storm surge. These maps are available for download as PDFs. These maps were taken at different points of the different regions along the coastline during 2012.

Organization:

Government of Nova Scotia
Resource formats:
Mapped
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Farmwest (Opens in a new Window)
Farmwest.com is a website launched in 2001 to provide weather and climate information as well as a number of decision-support tools to the agricultural sector. Farmwest is linked to 397 weather stations across Canada from federal, provincial, municipal and private weather station networks. Data includes temperature, precipitation, growing degree days, pest degree days, T-Sum calculator, and seasonal weather forecasts. Data are searchable by station and time period, and are available graphically.

Organization:

Government of British Columbia, Pacific Field Corn Association
Resource formats:
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Interactive

Scientific synthesis

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Tool
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Flood Forecasting and Warning Program (Opens in a new Window)
The Ontario Flood Forecasting and Warning Program provides information on current floods, including flood warnings, flood watches, and watershed conditions. Current flood statuses across Ontario are available as polygon data and categorized based on how the flood was issued (locally or provincially). Statements on current streamflow and forecasted precipitation are given for each MNRF Region.

Organization:

Government of Ontario
Resource formats:
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Tool
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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
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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
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Flood Risk Mapping Studies/Public Information Maps (Opens in a new Window)
Climate Change Flood Risk Maps are a tool for management and planning of flood plains and to minimize the impact of floods. Flood Risk Maps have been developed using climate change projections and are based on flood events associated with a return period of 20 and 100 years for various locations in Newfoundland and Labrador. As of June 2018, 10 climate change flood risk maps have been developed.

Organization:

Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
Resource formats:
Data files

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Date modified:: 2019-03-01