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  • Posted: October 31, 2024

    PCIC is pleased to announce the release of the October edition of the PCIC Update newsletter.

  • Posted: July 26, 2024

    Some of the global climate models used to study the Earth's climate system and make climate projections share components and computer code, much as if they were members of the same “families.” PCIC is pleased to announce the release of a new Science Brief covering a paper in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems that examines to what extent these family resemblances affect... more

  • Posted: June 20, 2024

    After collecting data for nearly 13 years, the Pacific Climate Data Set recently surpassed one billion observations for British Columbia. The PCDS holds observations from over 7000 stations across the province, with the oldest records going back to 1870.

  • Posted: June 14, 2024

    PCIC is proud to announce the release this month of the Salmon Climate Impacts Portal (SCIP). This online tool enables users to locate, visualize, summarise, and download summary data describing projected changes to salmon exposure in the freshwater environment within the BC Coastal domain.

  • Posted: April 4, 2024

    On Feb 27th, PCIC held a workshop with local government staff from the Capital Regional District and the Regional District of Nanaimo, focused on PCIC's Design Value Explorer (DVE) online tool. The DVE provides historical and future-projected climatic design data relevant to the National Building Code of Canada and the Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code at a national scale.

  • Posted: February 26, 2024

    PCIC is pleased to announce the release of the February 2023 edition of the PCIC Update.

  • Posted: November 21, 2023

    A recent UVic News article reports on PCIC's new director, Dr. Xuebin Zhang. PCIC is pleased to welcome Dr. Zhang, who joined as our new director, president and chief executive officer, on October first. The article discusses some of Dr.

  • Posted: September 29, 2023

    PCIC is pleased to announce the release of the September 2023 edition of the PCIC Update.

  • Posted: July 24, 2023

    PCIC is pleased to announce the release of new downscaled model output that is now available on our Data Portal. This product uses a multivariate technique, N-dimensional Multivariate Bias Correction (MBCn), to downscale output from global climate models participating in the sixth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6).

  • Posted: July 6, 2023

    How the interplay between the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and anthropogenic climate change will affect climate change impacts is a key question that scientists are trying to answer. The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a climate pattern with global effects that results from periodic variations in the sea surface temperature across the equatorial Pacific Ocean.

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