Welcome to a tour of the Scenarios WebsiteWelcome to a tour of the Scenarios Website

www.cics.uvic.ca/scenarioswww.cics.uvic.ca/scenarios

PLEASE NOTE: This tour does NOT PLEASE NOTE: This tour does NOT currently reflect several recent currently reflect several recent enhancements to the website. Please enhancements to the website. Please visit the New page for details.visit the New page for details.

Summary of Material Available on Summary of Material Available on Scenarios WebsiteScenarios Website

layperson’s primer on scenarios science detailed scenarios background information scenario visualization (maps) scenario data download scenario tools data and plots derived from scenarios

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The website is bilingualThe website is bilingual

Navigate to main sections via left barNavigate to main sections via left bar

Non-technical primer availableNon-technical primer available

The primer provides an overview of climate, The primer provides an overview of climate, models, scenarios and impactsmodels, scenarios and impacts

To visualize or download scenario data, To visualize or download scenario data, register then log inregister then log in

““More Info” section provides further technical More Info” section provides further technical details which will be of interest to users of scenario details which will be of interest to users of scenario datadata

To access scenarios, you can choose to either To access scenarios, you can choose to either “View Maps” or “Download Data”“View Maps” or “Download Data”

The next step is to choose the specific The next step is to choose the specific experiment experiment (SRES experiments now available)(SRES experiments now available)

Finally, choose type of map, time of year, variable, scenario Finally, choose type of map, time of year, variable, scenario time period and whether or not to display data over the ocean time period and whether or not to display data over the ocean

You may view scenarios either (a) stepwise colourmap with You may view scenarios either (a) stepwise colourmap with “mouseover” display of data, latitude and longitude, or...“mouseover” display of data, latitude and longitude, or...

(b) you may view scenarios on a continuous colourmap(b) you may view scenarios on a continuous colourmap

You may download data and longitude, latitude, land/sea You may download data and longitude, latitude, land/sea mask, and zip files containing all data from an experimentmask, and zip files containing all data from an experiment

Scenario tools – scatter plots may be plotted for any one or Scenario tools – scatter plots may be plotted for any one or two variables to compare projections for a given time and two variables to compare projections for a given time and location from several models location from several models

Scenario tools – SDSM data available through the website Scenario tools – SDSM data available through the website may be used for downscaling may be used for downscaling

Data and plots derived from scenarios – bio-climate profiles Data and plots derived from scenarios – bio-climate profiles (climate projections at stations), Climate Severity Index (climate projections at stations), Climate Severity Index (projections of climate comfort for layperson), and data from (projections of climate comfort for layperson), and data from several other sources outside of the CCIS projectseveral other sources outside of the CCIS project

Feedback is encouraged so we may Feedback is encouraged so we may improve the siteimprove the site

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Scenarios Principal Investigator: Elaine Barrow elaine.barrow@ec.gc.ca

Climate Applications Manager: Rick J. Lee rjlee@uvic.ca

Webmaster & Programmer Analyst: Trevor Murdock tmurdock@uvic.ca

CICS Executive Director: Fred Herfst herfstf@uvic.ca

Scenarios Project Director: Roger Street roger.street@ec.gc.ca

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