| Resource Name |
Climate Change Impacts on Hydro-Climatic Regimes in the Peace and Columbia Watersheds, British Columbia, Canada — Synthesis Project Final Report |
| Unique File Number |
366 |
| Information Type |
applied Research |
| Surface Water |
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| Aquatic Ecosystem |
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| Groundwater |
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| Groundwater & Surface Water |
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| Management for Natural & Industrial Hazards |
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| Strengths |
climate change impacts on flow regime including Peace River |
| Limitations |
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| Information Subtype |
climate change |
| Organization |
PCIC |
| Resource Name |
Shrestha, RR. 2011. Climate Change Impacts on Hydro-Climatic Regimes in the Peace and Columbia Watersheds, British Columbia, Canada — Synthesis Project Final Report. Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium. |
| Resource Purpose |
The scope of the Synthesis project is to compare and contrast climate and hydrologic projections derived using two very distinct approaches. One approach (Hydrologic Modelling project) was to use climate projections, statistically downscaled from a suite of eight Global Climate Models (GCMs), to force a macro-scale hydrologic model. This is contrasted with another approach (Regional Climate Modelling Diagnostics) in which a regional climate model is used to both dynamically downscale and simulate the hydrologic response from multiple runs of a single global climate model. Due to the relatively coarse resolution of the regional climate modelling approach, comparison is made on the basis of aggregating results from the individual projects over two fairly large spatial domains represented by the Peace and Colombia River basins, respectively. This is in contrast to the more site-specific projections conducted as part of the Hydrologic Modelling project. |
| Type of Information |
report |
| How does this help decision making? |
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| Program Status |
ongoing |
| NE Coverage |
ne BC specific |
| Drinking Water |
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| Ecosystem |
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| Fish |
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| Groundwater |
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| Public Safety |
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| SW Quality |
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| SW Quantity |
y |
| Link |
http://www.pacificclimate.org/sites/default/files/publications/Shrestha.Synthesis.FinalReport.Apr2011.pdf |
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| Contact Email |
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