Canada’s Changing Climate Report, Chapter 4: Temperature and Precipitation Across Canada

This chapter assesses observed and projected changes in temperature and precipitation for Canada, and it presents analyses of some recent extreme events and their causes.

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Creator Xuebin Zhang, Greg Flato, Megan Kirchmeier-Young, Lucie Vincent, Hui Wan, Xiaolan Wang, Robin Rong, John Fyfe, Guilong Li, Viatchelsav V. Kharin
Summary Changes in the observing system, such as changes in instruments or changes in location of the measurement site, must be accounted for in the analysis of the long-term historical record. The observing system is also unevenly distributed across Canada, with much of northern Canada having a very sparse network that has been in place for only about 70 years. There is very high confidence1 that temperature datasets are sufficiently reliable for computing regional averages of temperature for southern Canada14 from 1900 to present and for northern Canada2 from 1948 to present. There is medium confidence that precipitation datasets are sufficiently reliable for computing regional averages of normalized precipitation anomalies (departure from a baseline mean divided by the baseline mean) for southern Canada from 1900 to present but only low confidence for northern Canada from 1948 to present.
Local Relevance Climate data analysis
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Tags Research,Precipitation,Temperature
Geographic Region NWT
Release Date 2019-01-01
Last Modified Date 2019-01-01
Funding Program