Canadian Climate Impacts and Scenarios Introduction Print Printable Page

  • The CCIS project was a CCAF project that ran from October 1999 to June 2004.
  • This website is not supported or maintained although some parts of the data and tools on it will remain available.
  • The Canadian Climate Scenarios Network of Environment Canada provides national scenarios, bioclimate profiles, downscaling tools, technical advice on using scenarios & tools and impacts & adaptation research, and has regional nodes.
  • The Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium has a mandate to foster advances in climate impacts information for Western North America, including online tools and data with a regional focus.


The main role of the Canadian Climate Impacts and Scenarios project was to provide climate scenario information and scenario construction advice to impacts researchers in Canada to ensure that the resulting impacts studies can be used to provide Canadians with a meaningful national assessment of the impacts of climate change and can contribute to future assessments such as those undertaken by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The aims of the project can be summarised as:

  • the provision of climate change scenarios, advice and related information to the Canadian impacts and adaptation communities;
  • the development of a nationally consistent framework within which sector- and region-specific climate change scenarios will be developed through engagement of the respective impacts and adaptation research communities;
  • the development and maintenance of a capacity within the Canadian impacts and adaptation research communities to develop nationally-consistent climate change scenarios to support climate impacts and adaptation research and assessments, and
  • the engagement of the university research community and scenario users in the further development of the young and growing science of climate change scenarios.

Access to most of the website is through the following two buttons in the sidebar menu above:

Scenarios Maps and Data, Tools, and Derived from scenarios sections in which you can register, view maps, create custom plots, and download data.
Resources Contains a Climate Change Primer (overview of climate, models, scenarios and impacts), a FAQ for background information on scenario data and maps which are available, and links to other information.


Website Tour: if you are new to our website, we recommend right clicking on the link below and "Save Target As..." in order to download and run directly from your hard drive as both tours are large files. The PowerPoint Tour (1.2 MB) is recommended if you have Microsoft PowerPoint. The Stand-alone Tour (3.4 MB) will run on several platforms but is a larger file.

Updated Tue Jan 30 09:55:20 2007


IMPORTANT NOTE: CICS operated from 1993-2006. These pages serve only to document the projects, scenarios, publications, and products undertaken during the period when CICS was active. In 2006, CICS became the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC).

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