Canadian Climate Change Scenarios Network - National Node

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Download Data: Introduction

This section provides all the basic data needed to construct climate scenarios, from climate models (both global and regional models), as well as data used as input variables for statistical downscaling tools (see the Downscaling Tools section). Other data useful to validate climate models and/or to calibrate statistical downscaling tools are also provided here, as reanalysis products and observations. Other types of data are also supplied. Hence, the sub-sections have been organized to access various databases, namely:

• Climate models:
  • Global Climate Model (GCM)
  • Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM)
• Reanalysis products
• Statistical downscaling input
• Observations
• Other data

Data available for download are at various temporal resolutions:

• Time series: climate variables at daily*, monthly, seasonal or annual scale;
• Period averages: average values over 3 decades (for the baseline period, and future periods) at monthly, seasonal or annual scale.

All time series and period average climate information are available for the baseline period (i.e. 1961-1990) and the three future periods (i.e. 2011-2040, 2041-2070, and 2071-2100, called 2020s, 2050s, and 2080s, respectively), if the model data is released.

Users requiring further information on the Canadian GCM programme are invited to visit the Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis (CCCma), model information page: http://www.cccma.bc.ec.gc.ca/models/models.shtml.

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*The daily data (time series) are only available for specific partners of the CCCSN and not the general public. A registration form must be completed in order to access the data (see registration link: http://loki.ouranos.ca/DAI/DAI-e.html), Registration gives users access to data support and service. The daily Data Access Interface (DAI) has been developed for this purpose, and made possible through a collaboration among the Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre (GEC3: www.mcgill.ca/gec3), the Ouranos Consortium on regional climate change and impacts (www.ouranos.ca), the Adaptation and Impacts Research Division (AIRD: www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/airg) of Environment Canada and the Drought Research Initiative (DRI).

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