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The Ontario Climate Data Portal, a user-friendly portal of Ontario-specific climate projections

Earth Sciences

The Ontario Climate Data Portal, a user-friendly portal of Ontario-specific climate projections

H. Zhu, J. Liu, et al.

Discover the Ontario Climate Data Portal, a groundbreaking online resource launched by researchers including Huaiping Zhu and Jinliang Liu, providing high-resolution climate change projections for Ontario. This user-friendly platform offers rich data and insights, empowering both researchers and the public to understand and assess climate risks effectively.... show more
Abstract
An easily accessible climate data portal, http://yorku.ca/ocdp, was developed and officially launched in 2018 to disseminate a super ensemble of high-resolution regional climate change projections for the province of Ontario, Canada. The spatial resolution is ~10 km × ~10 km and temporal resolution is one day, UTC. The data covers 120 years from 1981 to 2100. This user-friendly portal provides users with thousands of static and interactive maps, decadal variation trend lines, summary tables, reports and terabytes of bias-corrected downscaled data. The data portal was generated with an emphasis on interactive visualization of climate change information for researchers and the public to understand to what extent climate could change locally under different emission scenarios in the future. This paper presents an introduction to the portal structure and functions, the large extent of the datasets available and the data development methodology.
Publisher
Scientific Data
Published On
May 19, 2020
Authors
Huaiping Zhu, Jinliang Liu, Xiaolan Zhou, Xiaoyu Chen, Xin Qiu, Richard L. Bello, Ziwang Deng
Tags
climate change
Ontario
data portal
projections
risk assessment
interactive maps
downscaled data
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