User Guides: Documents
Key Points
- User Guide
- 18 special reports
- Summary tables of provincial, regional and municipal averages
- 4 Basic Variables + 38 Indexes
Introduction
In the Documents section includes a large number of summary tables (Factsheets) for Ontario and reports about some topics. The summary tables include:
- A table for Ontario averages
- 50 tables for census divisions
- 151 tables for municipalities
Each table provides changes of the four basic variables and the 38 climate indices for the 2050s and 2080s under the 4 RCPs.
Values in the tables for Provincial and regional averages are spatial averages over the grids within Ontario and each region, respectively. Values in the tables for municipalities are changes at the corresponding weather stations.
In addition, we have created many specific reports to answer some common questions from the public and government agencies, and some examples of application of data from the portal.
This section also contains the full version of the user guide.
Special reports
Reports in web page format
- Report-01: Ontario Climate Trends and Variations Bulletin – 2018
- Report-03: Trends of Precipitation in Ontario
- Report-03: Trends of Precipitation in Ontario
- Report-04: Ontario Has Been Getting Hotter
- Report-05: Where Year 2016 Stands in Ontario’s Changing Climate?
- Report-06: Ontario Frost-Free Season (FFS)
- Report-07: Extreme Climate Indices for Building Code Calculation: Developing Extreme Climate Indices for Building Code Calculation in Ontario from the IPCC AR5 Multi-model Ensemble
Reports in PDF/PNG format
- Report-8: Historical and Projected Climate Trends over Ontario
- Report-09: Trends in Historical Temperature and Heat Wave Duration (pdf file)
- Report-10: Projected changes in annual total precipitation in the 2050s and 2080s from the 1981-2010 averages
- Report-11: Projected changes in annual mean temperature in the 2050s and 2080s from the 1981-2010 averages
- Report-12: PROJECTED TEMPERATURE CHANGES IN ONTARIO BY 2050s (pdf file)
- Report-13: PROJECTED PRECIPITATION CHANGES IN ONTARIO FOR 2050s (pdf file)
- Report-14: Precipitation Change for 1900 to 2100 relative to 1986-2005 from AR5 CMIP5 subset
- Report-15: Temperature Change for 1900 to 2100 relative to 1986-2005 from AR5 CMIP5 subset (pdf file)
- Report-16: High Resolution Climate Change Projections for Ontario (pdf file)
- Report-17: The Earth Is Getting Warmer and Warmer (pdf file)
- Report-18: An update on 2016 Ontario Climate Statistics (pdf file)
Factsheets
Summary tables based on the data from this data portal.
For example:
- Each table has 42 rows with each row represents a variable/index.
- Each table has 11 columns:
- Index: index/variable name
- Ref: reference value - average over the reference period (1986-2005)
- RCP26_2050: change in 2050s relative to the reference value under RCP 2.6
- RCP45_2050: change in 2050s relative to the reference value under RCP 4.5
- RCP60_2050: change in 2050s relative to the reference value under RCP 6.0
- RCP85_2050: change in 2050s relative to the reference value under RCP 8.5
- RCP26_2080: change in 2080s relative to the reference value under RCP 2.6
- RCP45_2080: change in 2080s relative to the reference value under RCP 4.5
- RCP60_2080: change in 2080s relative to the reference value under RCP 6.0
- RCP85_2080: change in 2080s relative to the reference value under RCP 8.5
Provincial Averages
The values in the table are cacluated using values of all grid cells (8964) within Ontario.
Regional Averages
The values in the table are cacluated using values of all grid cells within each of the 50 sub regions
Municipal Averages
The values in the table are calculated using the values of the weather station in each of the 150 cities.
Gallery
To help people understand climate change we generated many maps and time-series figures basd on other data sources as well.