CanCoast - Significant Wave Height Including Sea Ice Effects 2090-2099 Version 1.0

CanCoast is a geospatial database of the physical characteristics of Canada's marine coasts. It includes both feature classes that are not expected to change through time, and feature classes that are expected to change as climate changes. CanCoast includes: wave-height change with sea ice (early and late 21st century); sea-level change (early and late century); ground ice content; coastal materials; tidal range; and backshore slope. These are mapped to a common high-resolution shoreline and used to calculate indices that show the coastal sensitivity of Canada's marine coasts in modelled early and late 21st century climates.

Date ( RI_367 ): 2019-05-01

Date ( RI_366 ): 2017-09-01

RI_415

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Atlantique - Gavin Manson ( Coastal Geologist )

1 Challenger Drive , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , Canada

voice; +01-902-426-3144

RI_413

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Atlantique - Gavin Manson ( Coastal Geologist )

1 Challenger Drive , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , Canada

voice; +01-902-426-3144

RI_409

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Atlantique - Gavin Manson ( Coastal Geologist )

1 Challenger Drive , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , Canada

voice; +01-902-426-3144

RI_414

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada

Presentation form: mapDigital;carteNumérique RI_391

Name: Open File

Other citation details: Manson, G.K., Couture, N.J, James, T.S., 2019. CanCoast 2.0: Data and Indices to Describe the Sensitivity of Canada's Marine Coasts to Changing Climate; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8551, 18 + ii p. https://doi.org/10.4095/314669

Purpose: The purpose of this CanCoast feature class is to quantify the spatial variability in decadal mean significant wave heights including sea ice along the marine coasts of Canada from 2090 to 2099. It was developed from CMIP5 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5) data which analysed an ensemble of different projections of climate variables for time periods including the early and late 21st century. This feature class is an average of significant wave heights output from the BCC-CSM1-1, EC-EARTH, GFDL-ESM2M, INMCM4, and MIROC5 models using IPCC RCP 8.5, in a subset for coastal Canada. It contributes to calculations of Canada's coastal sensitivity to changing climate. Positive change indicates increasing wave height, negative change indicates decreasing wave height.

Credit: Funding for CanCoast was provided by the Climate Change Geoscience Program of the Lands and Minerals Sector of Natural Resources Canada under the Supporting Adaptation in Coastal Regions project. Additional funding was provided by the Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations Division of Natural Resources Canada.

Status: completed; complété RI_593

Maintenance and update frequency: notPlanned; nonPlanifié RI_542

GSC Keywords Vocabulary - Thesaurus Thésaurus - vocabulaire de mots-clé de la CGC ( RI_528 )

Coastal and Marine Geology

NRCan - GSC - Coastal domain - Keywords list Liste de mots-clés - RNCan - CGC - Domain côtier ( RI_528 )

sea ice

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )

Coasts

Use limitation: Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2018

Use limitation: Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)

Access constraints: license; licence RI_606

Use constraints: otherRestrictions; autresRestrictions RI_609

Spatial representation type: vector; vecteur RI_635

Metadata language: eng; CAN

Character set: utf8; utf8 RI_458

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Description: Canada's marine coasts.

Begin date: 2010-12-31

End date: 2011-12-31

Supplemental Information: CMIP5 data were provided by the Climate Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada. Subsequent processing was conducted by the Geological Survey of Canada, Natural Resources Canada. The CanCoast Marine Shoreline Version 3.0 was developed by the Geological Survey of Canada, Natural Resources Canada.

Reference system identifier: http://www.epsg-registry.org/ / EPSG:4617 / 6.14

Spatial representation info

No information provided.

Distribution format

SHP ( ESRI ArcGIS )

RI_412

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Atlantique - Gavin Manson ( Coastal Geologist )

1 Challenger Drive , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , Canada

voice; +01-902-426-3144

RI_414

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada

Transfer size: 274

OnLine resource: CanCoast - Changemement de la hauteur moyenne des vagues significatives, et les effets de la glace de mer de 2090 à 2099, version 1.0 ( HTTPS )
Dataset;HTML;eng

OnLine resource: CanCoast - Significant Wave Height Including Sea Ice Effects 2090-2099 Version 1.0 ( HTTPS )
Dataset;HTML;eng

OnLine resource: CanCoast - Significant Wave Height Including Sea Ice Effects 2090-2099 Version 1.0 - English ( HTTPS )
Dataset;ZIP;eng

OnLine resource: CanCoast - Significant Wave Height Including Sea Ice Effects 2090-2099 Version 1.0 - French ( HTTPS )
Dataset;ZIP;fra

Hierarchy level: dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622

Absolute external positional accuracy

Quantitative result

Value: 50

Absolute external positional accuracy

Quantitative result

Value: 10

Statement: Generic process step - data source list Process step no. 1 Process step no. 2 Process step no. 3 Process step no. 4 Process step no. 5 Process step no. 6

Description: This generic process step lists all the data sources used to create the dataset

Date / Time: 2018-03-30T00:00:00.0

RI_416

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Atlantique - Gavin Manson ( Coastal Geologist )

Description: CMIP5 significant wave height projections, 2090-2099, coastal Canadian domain |- CanCoast Marine Shoreline Version 3.0

Description: Using MatLab, monthly mean significant wave height data for the 10 year time period of interest were extracted from NetCDF files of the CMIP5 model projections to .csv format.

Date / Time: 2018-03-30T00:00:00.0

RI_416

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Atlantique - Gavin Manson ( Coastal Geologist )

Description: See the generic process step for a list of data sources.

Description: Using MatLab, the mean of the 10 year time period of interest was calculated for each model node in the coastal Canadian domain.

Date / Time: 2018-03-30T00:00:00.0

RI_416

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Atlantique - Gavin Manson ( Coastal Geologist )

Description: See the generic process step for a list of data sources.

Description: Using ArcCatalog, imported the .csv file to a new shapefile.

Date / Time: 2018-03-30T00:00:00.0

RI_416

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Atlantique - Gavin Manson ( Coastal Geologist )

Description: See the generic process step for a list of data sources.

Description: Using the ArcGIS spatial join tool, joined closest points in the shapefile to line segments of the CanCoast shoreline.

Date / Time: 2018-03-30T00:00:00.0

RI_416

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Atlantique - Gavin Manson ( Coastal Geologist )

Description: See the generic process step for a list of data sources.

Description: Using ArcGIS, deleted unnecessary fields and created new field to contain scores, and with python scripting scored attribute values according to criteria established using expert knowledge.