| Resource Name |
PCIC Hydrologic Impacts Research Plan for 2012-2016 |
| Unique File Number |
266 |
| Information Type |
Applied research |
| Surface Water |
A |
| Aquatic Ecosystem |
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| Groundwater |
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| Groundwater & Surface Water |
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| Management for Natural & Industrial Hazards |
A |
| Strengths |
outlines PCIC hydrologic impacts research program goals to model potential effects of climate change on hydrology, specifically surface water quantity. Includes modelling on Liard, Upper Peace and Upper Hay River watersheds within BC (see Fig 2). |
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| Challenges |
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| Outstanding Research Questions |
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| Outstanding Research Questions |
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| Information Subtype |
surface water quantity |
| Organization |
Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium |
| Resource Name |
Schnorbus, M., 2012: Hydrologic Impacts, Research Plan for2012-2016. Pacific Climate Impacts
Consortium, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, 15 pp. |
| Resource Purpose |
Consequently, the aim of the Hydrologic Impacts (HI) theme at the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC), and the purpose of the proposed applied research, is to quantify the effects of climate change and variability on water resources within the Pacific and Yukon region (PYR) of western Canada. The main purposes of HI theme products are to: Inform and support the sustainable use of the region’s water resources in order to help reduce society’s vulnerability to climate change and climate variability; and Raise awareness of potential hydrologic implications of climate change and climate variability. All this is to be accomplished at spatial scales relevant to regional and local management and over multiple planning and adaptation time frames. Spatial scales range from several hundreds of thousands of square kilometres (e.g. the Fraser River basin) to several hectares (e.g. drainage culvert design) and timeframes vary from monthly to century. Of particular interest for management and planning is a greater emphasis on knowledge regarding changes in hydrologic variability and changes in extremes, such as flood and drought, and phenomena that affect that variability, such as changes in the frequency and intensity of storms affecting the PYR. |
| Type of Information |
report |
| How does this help decision making? |
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| Program Status |
ongoing |
| NE Coverage |
provincial |
| Drinking Water |
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| Ecosystem |
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| Fish |
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| Groundwater |
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| Public Safety |
Y |
| SW Quality |
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| SW Quantity |
Y |
| Link |
http://www.pacificclimate.org/sites/default/files/publications/Schnorbus.HI_Plan_April2012.pdf |
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| Contact Email |
[email protected] |
