Projects
Hydrologic Impacts
Ongoing
The Fraser River system is the largest basin in British Columbia covering a drainage area of about 230,000 square kilometers. The basin is highly heterogeneous with elevation extending from the sea level to about 4000 m, and average annual precipitation ranging from 200 mm to 5000 mm. Precipitation...
Climate Analysis and Monitoring
Completed
The Climate Analysis and Monitoring Program (CAM) at PCIC is a multi-year project under the Climate Related Monitoring Program (CRMP), developed to support the Climate Change Adaptation Strategy of the BC government. The BC Ministry of Environment leads this multi-agency program. The CAM project...
Regional Climate Impacts
Completed
The objective of PCIC’s Downscaling Intercomparison Project was to provide a rigorous evaluation of the comparative strengths and weaknesses of several popular statistical methods of downscaling climate extremes.
Meeting the need for practical local-scale climate information is a key challenge for...
Regional Climate Impacts
Completed
The objective of this project was to contribute to a greater understanding of future climate extremes affecting the Columbia Basin. Future climate change projections will be used by communities undertaking climate adaptation plans and workshops with the support of the Columbia Basin Trust (CBT)....
Climate Analysis and Monitoring
Completed
The objective of this project is to define and initiate work for the analysis of climate data and the monitoring of climate anomalies in British Columbia within the context of climate variability and change (including extreme events).
The monitoring of current climate is essential for the...
Regional Climate Impacts
Completed
Wildfire is a significant source of ecosystem disturbance and property damage in British Columbia and climate plays a significant role in determining wildfire severity. Building on the experiences of previous studies, this project produced statistically downscaled projections of future fire weather...
Regional Climate Impacts
Completed
Following on the success of its 2009 climate assessment project on British Columbia’s Coquihalla Highway, PCIC was asked to provide a similar assessment for the Yellowhead Highway between Priestly Hill and Vanderhoof. In both assessments, past and future simulations of the impact of climate change...
Regional Climate Impacts
Completed
This project was a collaborative effort with the Northern Climate Exchange at Yukon College to determine projections of future climate change in the area covered by the Atlin-Taku Land Use Plan in northern British Columbia.
Of particular concern for the Atlin-Taku region is the limited number of...
Hydrologic Impacts
Completed
The main objective of the Hydrologic Modelling project was to estimate the hydrologic impacts of future climate change on select BC watersheds. Hydroelectricity is the largest source of electric power generation in the province and much of it is generated by BC Hydro in the Peace and Columbia River...
Hydrologic Impacts
Completed
This project used a regional climate model, the Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM), to estimate future hydrologic conditions under the influence of climate variability and change. It had the following specific objectives:
to validate the modelled water balance of the CRCM in selected BC...