ClimateData.ca Webinar Questions Summary

We are currently working with established regional climate service providers including the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC) for British Columbia and Ouranos in Québec and are collaborating with provinces and territories to advance the development of regional service providers in the North, the Prairies, and the Atlantic regions. [...] Is climatedata.ca replacing the Climate Data Extractor and Viewer available on the Canadian Centre for Climate Services Website? The Canadian Centre for Climate Services website has changed, where can I find the Climate Data Extractor and Viewer? ClimateData.ca is not replacing the Climate Data Extractor nor Viewer on the Canadian Centre for Climate Services Website. [...] Many of the datasets available on the Climate Data Extractor and Viewer, including lower resolution CMIP5 datasets for variables such as wind, sea ice and snow, are not available on ClimateData.ca The viewer and extractor are still accessible from the Canadian Centre for Climate Services website at www.canada.ca/climate-services. [...] How does ClimateData.ca compare in consistency, or are there any concerns with comparing ClimateData.ca with existing portals such as the Ontario Climate Data Portal at ? The data on ClimateData.ca is consistent with the statistically downscaled data hosted on the Canadian Centre for Climate Services and data used in the Climate Atlas of Canada. [...] The historical data provided is only until 2005, why are more recent data not available? Why is the data available for the climate normals available until 2010? The historical data shown on the figures and on the maps are modelled historical data from the BCCAQv2 dataset (the same dataset as the projections) which was downscaled from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) datase.