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 15, 2021
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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.
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Posted: July 2, 2021
PCIC is pleased to announce the release of our next Science Brief.
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Posted: March 31, 2021
The March 2021 issue of the PCIC Update newsletter is now out. It opens with 2020: A Year in Review, which examines the last year and place is in climatological context. Two New Birds Join the DACCS Birdhouse covers the release of Chickadee and Quail, two new tools that perform downscaling and compute climate extremes indices, respectively.
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Posted: March 25, 2021
High winds are the main cause of tree- and weather-related power outages in the Pacific Northwest. These occur primarily in the winter and spring seasons and are often caused by extratropical cyclones as they make landfall along the coast.
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Posted: February 12, 2021
PCIC is proud to announce the release of our newest Science Brief. This Science Brief covers a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, by Xu et al.
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Posted: January 21, 2021
PCIC is pleased to announce that the Climate-Resilient Buildings and Core Public Infrastructure Report has just been released.
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Posted: January 14, 2021
The January 2021 edition of the PCIC Update is now out.
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Posted: December 23, 2020
Owing to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere up until December of this year have been about 5% lower than the same period in 2019. Yet, the trend of increasing carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere has continued apace.
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Posted: December 4, 2020
Ongoing research by PCIC Post-Doctoral Scientist Qiaohong Sun examining how warming has affected extreme precipitation was recently featured in UVic’s knowlEDGE and the Times Colonist newspaper. Understanding this connection between anthropogenic climate change and extreme precipitation is important because of the damage that can be caused by extreme precipitation.