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Alberta's climate future

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The report summarizes observed climatic changes across Canada and Alberta. It briefly discusses the causes of climate change and the methodology for the detection and causal attribution of... More ≫

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The report summarizes observed climatic changes across Canada and Alberta. It briefly discusses the causes of climate change and the methodology for the detection and causal attribution of long-term trends and changes in the frequency or intensity of extreme events. The report summarizes observed and projected changes for more than 30 climate indicators, from the temperature of the coldest day of the year to average precipitation during the growing season. Future simulations are generated using a set of global climate models from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project version 5 (CMIP5), under higher (RCP8.5) and lower (RCP4.5) emissions scenarios, statistically downscaled to a high-resolution grid covering the entire province, and to 21 weather stations in Alberta. Local changes in the climate indicators are scaled to global mean temperature increases of +1, +1.5, and +2, +3 and +4OC.

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Review of 2002 12 Km MM5 model results : final report

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In a previous project, RWDI Air Inc. was retained in part to produce a subset of Mesoscale Model version 5 (MM5) output files covering the Province of Alberta based on model outputs for the 2002... More ≫

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In a previous project, RWDI Air Inc. was retained in part to produce a subset of Mesoscale Model version 5 (MM5) output files covering the Province of Alberta based on model outputs for the 2002 model year provided by Environment Canada. MM5 is a model used for creating weather forecasts and climate projections. This document reports on a review of the overall performance of the model in a general sense for a limited number of key parameters and to address some issues related to the data.

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