Feds launch Climate Data portal to explore impact of climate change

A new tool for Canadians is now available to track the impact of Climate Change on their home communities, with the Federal government expanding the amount of information available on its Climatedata.ca portal.

Launched in June of this year, but still a bit of a work in progress, the government outlined its ambitions for the project today with an information statement.

In June 2019, the Government of Canada launched ClimateData.ca, a new climate data portal. It was developed for users such as public health professionals, engineers, and planners, who require more than general climate change information to help understand and adapt to climate change. 

In order to better support their needs, ClimateData.ca provides: 

Historical and projected climate data at the daily level available to view and download at a resolution of about 10 × 10 km 

Over 25 different indicators for temperature and precipitation across Canada including extremes 

Updated historical Intensity Duration Frequency (IDF) curves 

Climate change threatens the health of Canadians. The new ClimateData.ca portal includes a specific health section with data useful for health authorities to support and inform health adaptation strategies and planning.

At the moment, residents of Prince Rupert can view a range of items of note on Temperature, Precipitation, and a number of other variables such as growing degree days, frost days, Cooling and Heating degree days. All come with interactive charts.

The comparisons between past and future indicate that our average temperatures will increase slightly over the next thirty years, with a four degree jump between recent years and what is to come by 2080.

Precipitation counts are projected to change by five percent for 2021-2050, eleven percent from 2051-2080 and fifteen percent for the last three decades of this century.

Will Prince Rupert become a hotter location as the years move
forward, the climate data graph suggests yes

Famous for our precipitation levels, the climate data project
charts what may be ahead through to 2080 and beyond

You can begin to explore the Prince Rupert findings here.

For those in other communities, the entry page for Climatedata.ca can be found here.

The program offers a number of search engines to explore any number of climate related themes

You can learn more about the project here.

For a look at some of our recent climate related stories around the Northwest see our Weather archive page.

Cross posted from the North Coast Review.