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Item How are we doing weather forecasts? The Canadian recipe(Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC), 2026) Gagnon, Normand; Brunet, GilbertNormand Gagnon, acting director of the Meteorological Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), and Dr. Gilbert Brunet, a retired ECCC meteorologist whose career spans over three decades of leadership, research and international collaboration, present "How are we doing weather forecasts? The Canadian recipe." Weather forecasting has evolved greatly in the last decades thanks to increased model realism, computer power and enhanced remote sensing observations. The process of forecasting the atmosphere behavior is complex and it needs big computers to be able to tackle this non-linear process in time to deliver timely useful forecast. The quality of the weather outlooks has improved significantly over the last decades in a quiet revolution. Canadian scientists were pioneers in this endeavor and the Canadian Meteorological Centre in Dorval is among the top 5 best centers in the world. In this talk, the presenters will go thru the actual steps needed to do numerical weather forecasting from ingesting input observations data, preparing the initial conditions and then go forward in the future with a numerical model. The impact of the arrival of Artificial Intelligence in the fields will be discussed as well. There will be a special emphasis on the Canadian contributions to numerical weather and environmental fields.Item Introduction to the Design Value Explorer: Integrating future climate data into the built environment (national context)(Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC), 2023-06-08) O’Sullivan, Stacey; Lepage, Rob; Radhakrishnan, HarshanCalling all building sector professionals! We are pleased to invite you to an interactive climate change training session on PCIC’s newest web-based tool - the Design Value Explorer (DVE). The DVE is the result of a collaborative project between PCIC, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Infrastructure Canada, and the National Research Council of Canada. The DVE provides revised climatic design data relevant to the National Building Code of Canada and the Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code. The tool provides building professionals with historical and future-projected design values for all of Canada that incorporate projected changes in climate. This session will be jointly delivered by PCIC, the Canadian Centre for Climate Services (CCCS), and Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia. It will begin with the fundamentals of climate science and an explanation of key considerations for using the tool, leading to an in-depth demonstration of the tool itself. We will examine the unique data and features of the tool that will aid building and infrastructure design professionals in the consideration of climate change risks and the incorporation of climate change into design and construction phases.Item PCIC Climate Explorer: Tour of basic features(Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC), 2019) Glover, RodTraining resource for PCIC's Climate ExplorerItem PCIC Climate Explorer: Tutorial demonstrating advanced features(Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC), 2019) Glover, RodTraining resource for PCIC's Climate ExplorerItem PCIC Seminar: "Weather to run: Building climate data infrastructure for science and society"(Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC), 2026-01-14) Hiebert, JamesBritish Columbia’s climate varies dramatically over short distances, from coastal rainforests to inland fjords and glaciated alpine terrain. Capturing that variability requires more than static datasets: it demands continuous, high-resolution climate monitoring supported by robust data infrastructure. This talk describes the Provincial Climate Data Set (PCDS)–a product of PCIC and BC’s Climate Related Monitoring Program–as a living, relational database designed to ingest near-real-time observations from many official and operational sources, manage evolving metadata, and track revisions to observations and metadata over time. Using a simple and relatable use case—the percentage of “runnable” days per year defined by temperature and precipitation thresholds–this talk demonstrates how structured, provenance-aware climate data enable reproducible analysis across stations, regions, and decades. The example illustrates why relational data models, change tracking, and sustained technical investment are essential for trustworthy climate services. While the case study is grounded in everyday experience, the underlying message is serious: decisions affecting safety, infrastructure, and livelihoods rely on climate data that can accommodate variability, uncertainty, and change.Item Plan2Adapt tool demo(Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC), 2025-03-06) Beard, Ed; Feffer, LoniTraining resource for Plan2AdaptItem Quantifying future freshwater hazard exposure for Pacific salmon in British Columbia(Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC), 2024-06-05) Schnorbus, Markus A.; Zeman, LeeThe changing climate in British Columbia (BC) is expected to affect various hydrological factors pertinent to salmon growth, survival, and habitat interconnectivity, leading to changes in species distribution at broad spatial scales. Mitigating the threats to salmonids requires action to protect genetic diversity to ensure the greatest potential for adaptation to changing climatic conditions. As the climate continues to warm, more information will be required to support actions to protect wild salmon and associated habitat. To be effective, there needs to be a concerted effort to bridge the significant knowledge gaps that remain regarding the nature and magnitude of regional impacts of climate change on hydrology in many BC watersheds. To this end, researchers from the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC), in collaboration with scientists from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), have recently completed a project to better understand how climate change may affect terrestrial freshwater environments in which salmon populations are found. Flow and thermal exposure indicators have been produced that capture and quantify historical and potential future freshwater hazards over a large spatial domain and at multiple temporal scales (daily, weekly, and monthly). This knowledge will be delivered to a broad range of users via the Salmon Climate Impacts Portal (SCIP), which is an online tool developed at PCIC to locate, visualize, summarise, and download summary data describing projected changes to salmon exposure in the freshwater environment within the BC Coastal domain. The intended use of this tool is for conducting regional population- and watershed-based exposure summaries. We believe that this data, and associated tool, will support assessments of ecological vulnerability to climate change across diverse salmon habitats and populations. Speaker Bios: As Lead of PCIC’s Hydrologic Impacts Theme, Markus Schnorbus is responsible for planning and managing PCIC’s effort to quantify the effects of climate change on hydrological processes throughout the PCIC domain. This work involves continual development and deployment of state-of-the-science modelling tools, the generation of hydrologic projections to keep pace with the latest climate projections, and analysis and interpretation of model outputs in response to stakeholder-driven questions and issues. It also includes the delivery of data, information and tools to facilitate adaptation and risk reduction in support of water resources planning and management activities.” Lee Zeman is a Hydrologic Programmer/Analyst with the Computational Support Group at the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, working under the British Columbia Salmon Restoration and Innovation Fund. His main focus is developing web tools to enable exploration and analysis of climate data.Item Rapid attribution of extreme events in Canada(Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC), 2026) Gillett, NathanIn recent years, Canada has experienced a number of impactful extreme events, such as the 2021 BC heatwave, which was the deadliest natural disaster on record in Canada, and the 2021 BC floods, which were the costliest natural disaster on record in BC. Quantification of the influence of human-induced climate change on the probability of such extreme events can help inform climate change adaptation and public understanding of the effects of climate change, and such information is much more impactful if available shortly after an event. This has prompted Environment and Climate Change Canada to develop a rapid event attribution system for extreme events in Canada. The system runs automatically on a daily basis and provides information on the human influence on hot extremes, cold extremes and precipitation extremes for extreme events across Canada shortly after they are observed. This talk will describe the current event attribution system, based on existing CMIP6 coupled climate model simulations, and describe its extension to higher resolution atmosphere model simulations using Canadian climate and weather predictions models, which will allow the better representation of impactful phenomena such as atmospheric rivers and post-tropical cyclones. Examples of results for recent extreme events in BC will also be presented.