Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC)

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Climate Change

We provide expert advice on:

• Current state of Canadian and International climate science
• Trends in greenhouse gas concentrations
• Impacts, predictions and modelled projections of climate change

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On-line assessment documents:

Special Reports

This report addresses some of the questions often posed by the public or arguments raised by skeptics about the science of climate change. Responses and explanations are based on fundamental, well-accepted principles of physics, or on related information from IPCC reports and in recent peer-reviewed scientific papers.

Projections for Canada's Climate Future. CCD 00-01This special report provides a summary of recent results from climate change experiments undertaken with the first version of the Canadian coupled climate model. It also describes how these results were achieved and discusses their credibility and limitations.

This CCD report examines whether or not there is any scientific basis for the popular perception that extreme weather events and related disasters are becoming more extreme and/or frequent, and considers what the science community can and cannot say about future risks of such events in a warmer world.

Climate Change: Supporting Action through Science (brochure)

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The Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) is at the forefront of climate change science, having brought together experts to focus on climate data and analysis, processes and modelling, and impacts and adaptation research. Some 100 MSC experts, along with their partners across the country, provide Canadians and their governments with up-to-date scientific information and advice on climate change.

• Arctic                         [HTML] [PDF]
• Climate Modelling     [HTML] [PDF]
• Climate Monitoring    [HTML] [PDF]

Annual Reviews

CO2/Climate Report, Spring 2004

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2001 In Review: An Assessment of New Research Developments Relevant to the Science of Climate Change.

A technical review of key scientific papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals in 2000.

This newsletters provides a case-by-case analysis of various types of unusual weather events that have occurred in Canada and elsewhere over the past 5 years, provides estimates of real economic and social costs or benefits of these events where available, and considers possible linkages to climate change.

This issue of the newsletter presents reviews of special IPCC reports on carbon sinks and on greenhouse gas emission scenarios, and of recent literature on anthropogenic radiative forcing.

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Science assessment document requests:

For copies, please contact the Science Assessment and Integration Branch Office at the address below (unless otherwise indicated above)

Meteorological Service of Canada, SAIB
4905 Dufferin Street
Toronto, Ontario, M3H 5T4
Tel: 416-739-4645, Fax: 416-739-4882

Links to other climate change pages.

For more information, contact:

Elizabeth Bush: (416) 739-4332
Patti Edwards: (416) 739-4432

Science Assessment and Integration Branch (SAIB),
Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment Canada
4905 Dufferin Street, Downsview, ON, M3H 5T4

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