Following a powerful atmospheric river event that broke at least 20 rainfall records across southern BC, PCIC Director Francis Zwiers was one of several experts contacted by the Canadian Press to provide some comments on the situation. Dr.
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Posted: November 17, 2021
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Posted: November 10, 2021
PCIC is seeking candidates to fill two co-op positions: a Hydrology Analyst and an Assistant Hydrologic Programmer/Analyst. The information for these two opportunities is below.
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Posted: October 25, 2021
This issue of the PCIC Update opens with the story, Assessing Changing Flood Risk, which covers a recent pilot project that PCIC has undertaken to provide guidance on design flood values.
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Posted: October 13, 2021
The Nobel Prize in Physics was recently awarded to three scientists whose work increased humanity’s understanding of complex systems: Drs. Syukuro Manabe of Princeton Universtiy, Klaus Hasselmann of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and Giorgo Parisi of Sapienza University. The inclusion of Drs.
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Posted: October 8, 2021
The PCIC 2020-2021 Corporate Report is now out. Over the 2020-2021 fiscal year, PCIC continued to push at the boundaries of knowledge in climate science.
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Posted: August 13, 2021
This issue of the PCIC Update begins with the story, PCIC Responds to the Extreme Heat Wave, which covers PCIC's response to the June heat wave, including fielding media questions and contributing to the rapid attribution analysis focused on the event.
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Posted: August 10, 2021
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just released its sixth comprehensive assessment of the physical science of climate change.
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Posted: July 20, 2021
The recent extreme heatwave that gripped Western North America shattered many long-standing temperature records over a region that spans from southern Yukon to Oregon state, north to south, and from the Pacific coast to the Rocky Mountains, east to west.
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Posted: July 15, 2021
PCIC is pleased to announce an upcoming special webinar by climatologist and lead of PCIC's Climate Analysis and Monitoring theme, Dr. Faron Anslow, for the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS). Dr. Anslow will be discussing and sharing the results of a rapid attribution study on the recent heatwave that gripped Western North America.
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Posted: July 5, 2021
PCIC has just released a report that analyses projected changes in three streamflow metrics that are of interest to decision makers, in three select watersheds in BC, using PCIC’s CMIP5 hydrologic model results.