The methodology was developed iteratively with user feedback for a range applications, ensuring the relevance of the climate scenarios for adaptation stakeholders.
This project provided an objective method to estimate how future global emissions will affect regional climate changes that does not rely on assumptions about a particular greenhouse gas emissions scenario.
Updating the database has contributed to improving and validating climate tools and products.
Managers now have access to an interactive tool enabling them to better understand the issues and to integrate climate information in their decision-making process.
The future portrait of 81 climate indicators for the territory of Nunavik will drive a variety of climate change impact and adaptation studies, including studies on the food security of Aboriginal populations and fauna/ecosystem modelling. The use of alternative data made it possible to produce finer subdivisions of northern bioclimate, which may serve as a baseline for ecologists.
A notable outcome are the 2013 and 2015 editions of the Hydroclimatic Atlas of Central Québec by Direction de l’Expertise hydrique (MDDELCC) providing profound insight into the future modifications of the hydrology of Québec. This helped decision makers to understand these changes and develop and adapt strategies in order to respond to the new normal.
