How to Cite ClimateData.ca

Acknowledgements:

Whenever you publish research or present results based on information obtained from ClimateData.ca, please include the following acknowledgement or an appropriate equivalent:

“We wish to thank ClimateData.ca for providing the climate information used in this paper. ClimateData.ca was created through a collaboration between the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC), Ouranos Inc., the Prairie Climate Centre (PCC), Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montréal (CRIM).”

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Data

When publishing results based on ClimateData.ca data, please also include a citation for the dataset itself, such as the following:

CanDCS-M6

Sobie, S. R., Ouali, D., Curry, C. L. et Zwiers, F. W. (2024). Multivariate Canadian Downscaled Climate Scenarios for CMIP6 (CanDCS-M6). Geoscience Data Journal 11: 806-824. https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.257

CanDCS-U5

Cannon, A.J., S.R. Sobie, and T.Q. Murdock, 2015: Precipitation by Quantile Mapping: How Well Do Methods Preserve Changes in Quantiles and Extremes? Journal of Climate, 28(17), 6938-6959, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-14- 00754.1.

NRCANMET v1 (ANUSPLIN)

McKenney, D. W., M. F. Hutchinson, P. Papadopol, K. Lawrence, J. Pedlar, K. Campbell, E. Milewska, R. F. Hopkinson, D. Price, and T. Owen, 2011: Customized Spatial Climate Models for North America. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 92 12, 1611-1622.

Historical Station Data

Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada (and ClimateData.ca) See: https://eccc-msc.github.io/open-data/licence/readme_en/

IDF Curves

Shephard, M.W., E. Mekis, R.J., Morris, Y. Feng, X. Zhang, K. Kilcup, and R. Fleetwood, 2014: Trends in Canadian Short-Duration Extreme Rainfall: Including an Intensity-Duration-Frequency Perspective, Atmosphere-Ocean, DOI: 10.1080/07055900.2014.969677

SPEI

Tam B, Szeto K, Bonsal B, Flato G, Cannon AJ, Rong R (2018): CMIP5 drought projections in Canada based on the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index, Canadian Water Resources Journal, 44, 90-107.

Humidex

Chow, K.K.C., Sankaré, H., Diaconescu, E.P., Murdock, T.Q. & Cannon, A.J. (2024) Bias-adjusted and downscaled humidex projections for heat preparedness and adaptation in Canada. Geoscience Data Journal, 11, 680–698. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.241

Relative Sea Level Change

James, T.S., Robin, C., Henton, J.A., and Craymer, M., 2021. Relative sea-level projections for Canada based on the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report and the NAD83v70VG national crustal velocity model; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8764, 1 .zip file, https://doi.org/10.4095/327878

Vertical Allowance

Zhai, L., Greenan, B.J.W. and Perrie, W. 2023. The Canadian Extreme Water Level Adaptation Tool (CANEWLAT). Can. Tech. Rep. Hydrogr. Ocean. Sci. 348: iii + 15 p.