PCIC science brief: On the Canadian precipitation analysis

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dc.contributor.authorPacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC)
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-17T21:30:43Z
dc.date.available2025-03-17T21:30:43Z
dc.date.issued2019-02
dc.description.abstractReal-time precipitation data can be of use to areas ranging from forecasting to forest fire management. This Science Brief covers a recent paper that examines the past ten years of a near real-time Canadian precipitation product. Writing in Atmosphere-Ocean, Fortin et al. (2018) examine the Canadian Precipitation Analysis (CaPA), a near real-time precipitation product covering all of North America that is produced by Environment and Climate Change Canada. They review papers that evaluate CaPA compared to precipitation observations as well as the applications of CaPA for various types of research, ranging from hydrology1 and hydrometeorology2 to biogeophysics3. They find that CaPA compares favourably against other precipitation data, and report that it has been used successfully in studies across a number of fields, including hydrometeorology, hydrology, land surface and atmospheric modelling.
dc.description.reviewstatusUnreviewed
dc.description.scholarlevelFaculty
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/21601
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherPacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC)
dc.subjectUN SDG 13: Climate Action
dc.subject#science brief
dc.subjectPacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC)
dc.titlePCIC science brief: On the Canadian precipitation analysis
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