| Abstract/Description or Keywords |
The Hydrologic Impacts Theme of the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium is developing an updated version of the Variable Infiltration Capacity macro-scale hydrologic model for all watersheds flowing in or out of BC that includes a dynamic representation of glaciers. This model will be used to estimate daily streamflow out to 2100 for a range of climate scenarios from the 5th Coupled Modelling Inter-comparison Project (CMIP5). Methods of selecting climate scenarios or global climate models and statistical downscaling to bias correct these temperature and precipitation fields is being done in a way to improve our ability to project changes to hydrologic extremes, such as floods and droughts. Results from the CMIP3 models for the Campbell, Fraser, Peace and Columbia river basins are available on our website along with downscaled climate projections for Canada from CMIP5. |
