British Columbia
Drought
BC Agriculture Water Calculator
The BC Agricultural Water Calculator uses 10 years of historical climate data, from 2001 to 2010, to calculate how much water farmers should need for their farm in the “new climate normal”, which farmers can reference in their water licence applications. Government of BC staff involved with water authorizations also use this calculator when reviewing applications. Data are available for individual land parcels in tabular format.
Organization: Government of Canada, Government of British Columbia, Partnership for Water Sustainability in British Columbia, Investment Agriculture Foundation, Okanagan Basin Water BoardPLAN2ADAPT
The Plan2Adapt tool generates maps, plots, and data describing projected future climate conditions for regions throughout British Columbia. It is designed to help assess climate change in regions of BC based on a standard set of climate model projections. Climate variables include temperature, precipitation, snowfall, and growing and heating degree days. Impacts of change in these climate variables are also discussed. Data can be explored based on regional districts, health authority boundaries, ecoprovinces, and forestry regions over three time periods (2020s, 2050s, and 2080s), seasonally and annually.
Organization: Pacific Climate Impacts ConsortiumProvincial Groundwater Observation Well Network
The British Columbia Provincial Groundwater Observation Well Network (PGOWN) is comprised of groundwater level and chemistry monitoring stations which are cooperatively operated by the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations and the Ministry of Environment. There are around 190 monitoring stations distributed across BC. Data include historical and current groundwater level and chemistry. Data are available for download in tabular formats.
Organization: Government of British Columbia – Ministry of Environment and Climate Change StrategyQuarterly Climate Outlooks
Quarterly Climate Outlooks provide historical and future gridded precipitation and temperature data for various areas and locations in Alaska and Northwestern Canada. Reports are available quarterly between March of 2017 and 2018.
Organization: National Integrated Drought Information System
Climate Change on Species
Cultural Effects of Climate Change on First Nations
Traditional Knowledge (TK) and Climate Change
Climate Change on Hunting and Fishing
Climate Change on Languages
Social Effects of Climate Change on First Nations