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ClimateBC: Your access to interpolated climate data for BC.

Citation:

Spittlehouse, D. 2006. ClimateBC: Your access to interpolated climate data for BC. Streamline Watershed Management Bulletin 99:16-21.

Abstract:

ClimateBC is a computer program that offers high-resolution, spatial climate data for current and future climate change scenarios. The program was developed because applying climate data in resource management often requires matching spatial scales of climate and resource databases. ClimateBC provides data for BC and the Alaska Panhandle, to 113 degress W in Alberta, and to 2 degrees of latitude into Yukon Territories and the United States adjacent to BC. You can obtain data using a stand-alone MS Windows application that is available to the public. Users of ClimateBC input the latitude, longitude, and elevation of their point of interest. The program outputs monthly maximum and minimum air temperature, precipitation, seasonal summaries, and derived variables such as degree-days and frost-free period for 1961–1990 climate normals. A primary reason for developing ClimateBC is to help analyze the effect of climate change on forest resources and develop adaptive actions. Consequently, the user can obtain the above-mentioned variables from ClimateBC for six climate change scenarios at three periods during the 21st century.

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