Statistically downscaled climate scenarios from CMIP6 global climate models (CanDCS-U6 & CanDCS-M6)

Statistically downscaled climate scenarios from CMIP6 global climate models (CanDCS-U6 & CanDCS-M6) is an open dataset from Environment and Climate Change Canada with 12 files (NETCDF, HTML, WMS); catalogue record updated 2025-10-21. On CanQuery you can follow the original downloads. Files are available in English and French.

Environment and Climate Change Canada’s (ECCC) Climate Research Division (CRD) and the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC) previously produced statistically downscaled climate scenarios based on simulations from climate models that participated in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5) in 2015. ECCC and PCIC have now updated the CMIP5-based downscaled scenarios with two new sets of downscaled scenarios based on the next generation of climate projections from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6). The scenarios are named Canadian Downscaled Climate Scenarios–Univariate method from CMIP6 (CanDCS-U6) and Canadian Downscaled Climate Scenarios–Multivariate method from CMIP6 (CanDCS-M6). CMIP6 climate projections are based on both updated global climate models and new emissions scenarios called “Shared Socioeconomic Pathways” (SSPs). Statistically downscaled datasets have been produced from 26 CMIP6 global climate models (GCMs) under three different emission scenarios (i.e., SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5, and SSP5-8.5), with PCIC later adding SSP3-7.0 to the CanDCS-M6 dataset. The CanDCS-U6 was downscaled using the Bias Correction/Constructed Analogues…

Publisher

Environment and Climate Change Canada

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12

Catalogue metadata updated

2025-10-21