Update, January 2017: The article below has been updated to reflect new observational data for the province. As we had initially suspected, owing to a combination of ongoing anthropogenic climate change and a strong El Niño, 2016 is one of the two warmest years on record for the province as a whole.
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Posted: December 23, 2016
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Posted: December 13, 2016
Online tools are an important way that Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium delivers climate information to those who need it. To ensure effectiveness and relevance, we rely on feedback.
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Posted: December 7, 2016
Recently, BC Ministry of Environment Senior Policy Analyst Johanna Wolf and PCIC climate scientist Trevor Murdock delivered a webinar about using online climate information and adaptation tools. This webinar was designed to help people identify where to start by using examples of the kinds of questions that users often seek to answer with online tools.
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Posted: December 2, 2016
PCIC Director Francis Zwiers is one of three UVic academics who were recently recognized by Thomson Reuters in their annual list of top-cited researchers.
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Posted: September 20, 2016
PCIC's latest Science Brief highlights articles two recent research papers that focus on extreme weather events that affect coastal British Columbia. The first paper, by Soontiens et al. (2016) examines storm surges in the Strait of Georgia.
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Posted: July 19, 2016
This PCIC Science Brief covers a recent paper by Sigmond and Fyfe (2016) that was published in Nature Climate Change. The authors investigate the causes of cooler winters over the early 2000s in North America and find that they vary by region. In the northwest, these cooler winters were largely due to a pattern of western cooling and central warming in the tropical Pacific Ocean.
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Posted: June 27, 2016
Interest in the effects of anthropogenic climate change on climate extremes is growing and this is the focus of this month's knowlEDGE. Each month the Times Colonist newspaper, along with UVic's Communications and Marketing, highlight an area of research being carried out at UVic in a half-page feature.
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Posted: March 20, 2016
This PCIC Science Brief covers two recent papers by Beedle et al. (2015) and Clarke et al. (2015) examining changes to glaciers in western Canada. Publishing in the journal The Cryosphere, Beedle et al. use photographic methods to quantify changes to 33 glaciers in the Cariboo Mountains.
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Posted: February 25, 2016
The University of Victoria's sixth Ideafest will be held between March 7th and 12th, showcasing the work of some of Canada's best researchers.
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Posted: January 19, 2016
The latest PCIC Science Brief covers a review paper by Westra et al. on future changes to short-duration extreme rainfall. Their work, published in the journal Reviews of Geophysics, summarizes current research on the analysis of future changes to the intensity, duration and frequency of short-duration extreme rainfall.