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 23, 2020
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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.
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Posted: November 17, 2020
The November 2020 issue of the PCIC Update newsletter is now out. The newsletter opens with A Preview of Winter?
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Posted: November 5, 2020
PCIC is proud to announce the release of its 2019-2020 Corporate Report. This year's annual report covers the wide variety of research activities conducted at PCIC and the increases to the climate services that PCIC has provided over the past year.
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Posted: September 9, 2020
In a recent article in The Conversation, PCIC Director Francis Zwiers and University of Manitoba Professor Ronald Stewart discuss changes in precipitation extremes.
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Posted: August 18, 2020
The August 2020 edition of the PCIC Update is out, now! This edition covers: the release of the 2019 in BC, in Climatological Context report; the New Plan2Adapt tool; and the Survey on Future Climate Data and Information Needs in the Building Sector.
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Posted: June 8, 2020
PCIC is pleased to announce our line-up of June webinars and presentations. These will begin this Thursday, June 11th, with the first of two webinars as part of the Agriculture Climate Data series by the BC Agricultural Climate Adaptation Research Network (ACARN).
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Posted: May 15, 2020
PCIC is pleased to announce the release of our newest Science Brief. This Science Brief covers a recent paper in Nature Climate Change by Natali et al.
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Posted: May 15, 2020
The May 2020 edition of the PCIC Update has been released. It opens with a special update on COVID-19. This issue of the newsletter contains the following Project and Research Updates: Modelling Climate Impacts on the Nechako River, Okanagan Climate Projections Report Gets Media Attention and New Hydrologic Model Output Available on PCIC's Data Portal. The May 2020 Staff Profile is Dr.
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Posted: April 3, 2020
We recognize that our community is saturated with the steady stream of coronavirus updates and related news. In light of this, PCIC wishes only to assure our partners and the users we serve that operations are continuing, with PCIC scientists carrying out their work remotely, working to build a more resilient province. We have also just welcomed Dr.