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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Data at NSIDC (Opens in a new Window)
Data at National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is a large repository of datasets that describe historical cryosphere information. Datasets available include temperature, glaciers, ice sheets, permafrost, sea ice, sea moisture, and snow. Historical data are available as point and gridded data.

Organization:

National Snow and Ice Data Center
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Ice Graph (Opens in a new Window)
IceGraph 2.0 generates ice coverage bar graphs and data tables for a selected region and date range. Data are available from 1968 to present and can be compared between seasons. Specific measures include first year ice, new ice, young ice, and old ice for the current season as well as for the historical monitoring period.

Organization:

Government of Canada: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Resource formats:
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LC MAP - Landscape Conservation Management and Analysis Portal (Opens in a new Window)
The Landscape Conservation Management and Analysis (LC MAP) Data Catalog tool includes resources for Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCC). LC MAP was originally developed by the U.S. Geological Survey in coordination with the Great Northern LCC and is broadly available for ScienceBase users to share, access, and analyze common datasets. LC MAP allows users to discover, assess, edit, analyze, and model common data themes and provides powerful geospatial analysis capabilities of ArcGIS 10 and its broad array of extensions.

Organization:

U.S. Geological Survey
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Northwest Boreal Science and Management Research Tool (Opens in a new Window)
The Northwest Boreal Science and Management Research Tool contains curated scholarly articles, datasets, state and federal resource reports, land management plans, and more. Each entry includes geographic information about the area of study, allowing users to draw a box on a map to narrow searches to information directly related to a specific region in Alaska, the Yukon, British Columbia, and Northwest Territories. This project is a collaboration among Alaska Resources Library & Information Services (ARLIS), Alaska Climate Science Center, DataBasin, and Northwest Boreal Landscape Conservation Cooperative.

Organization:

Northwest Boreal Landscape Conservation Cooperative
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PLAN2ADAPT (Opens in a new Window)
The Plan2Adapt tool generates maps, plots, and data describing projected future climate conditions for regions throughout British Columbia. It is designed to help assess climate change in regions of BC based on a standard set of climate model projections. Climate variables include temperature, precipitation, snowfall, and growing and heating degree days. Impacts of change in these climate variables are also discussed. Data can be explored based on regional districts, health authority boundaries, ecoprovinces, and forestry regions over three time periods (2020s, 2050s, and 2080s), seasonally and annually.

Organization:

Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium
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Plant Hardiness Zone Maps of Canada (Opens in a new Window)
Plant Hardiness Zone Maps of Canada provide gridded information about where different types of plants can grow. They combine climatic information from across Canada and are available for two historical periods: 1961-1990 and 1981-2010. Projected future range maps are also available for a number of species of trees, shrubs, and perennial herbs. Climate profiles are available for plant species based on distribution data and climate models.

Organization:

Government of Canada: Natural Resources Canada
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Date modified:: 2019-03-01