Understanding and using the latest climate data to build resilience in the transportation sector
March 14, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
10:00 am to 11:30 am PST
Canada’s changing climate and the increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events can have far-reaching impacts across transportation systems and infrastructure. In this webinar, you will hear from the Canadian Centre for Climate Services on the latest climate data and how you can apply it to understand and plan for these changes. We will first introduce CMIP6 and the concept of Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSPs), their similarities and differences to the previously used CMIP5 and Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs), and new guidance to practitioners on how to use scenarios that meet their needs when extracting future climate data from ClimateData.ca. Next, the concept of ‘Global Warming Levels’ will be discussed, specifically in relation to the new Design Value Explorer tool published by the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium. Overall, the objective is to learn how to apply these climate data concepts to transportation assets in a risk-based decision-making process.
