Canadian Extreme Water Level Adaptation Tool (CAN-EWLAT) User guide

Select

This filter tool is located on the right above the Location List.

Click on the Select Province/Territory and then choose the region of interest from the drop-down list. Following this selection, a list of DFO Small Craft Harbours and Tide Gauge sites will appear in the Location List.

Due to the large number of sites in Canada, the Select tool is required to subset the data in order to ensure acceptable response time of the application.

Location list

This widget is found on the right.

It lists all of the locations with available information.

This widget can be expanded by clicking on the circle that appears when you move your mouse cursor over the upper right corner of the panel.

The panel can be reset to its original size by clicking on the same circle again.

Click on an item in the Location List to zoom in on the map and display sea level rise information in the panel on the left.

Map panel

This panel is found in the center.

It displays a map that shows DFO Small Craft Harbour locations and selected Tide Guage sites.

The map can be expanded by clicking on the circle that appears when you move your mouse cursor over the upper right corner of the panel. The panel can be reset to its original size by clicking on the same circle again.

The map panel has 2 tabs at the bottom:

1. Site Locations is the default tab showing an interative map of the Small Craft Harbour and Tide Gauge locations.
2. More Information provides links to background information supporting this application, such as the Open Data record.

Reset

This widget is found at the top right of the map. Click the button with home symbol to reset to the default map extent.

Legend

This widget is found at the top right of the map. Click the button with dots and lines.

It displays a summary of the symbols displayed on the map.

Basemaps

This widget is found at the top right of the map. The default map is a satellite imagery basemap. Click the button with 4 squares.

This widget will display options to change the basemap.

Choose from several ocean-related basemaps that may provide additional information, such as harbour bathymetry.

Zoom

This widget is found on the bottom right of the map.

Click the plus sign (+) to zoom in on the map.

Click the minus sign (-) to zoom out.

By zooming in or out, the Location List panel will change to include the Small Craft Harbour and Tide Guage sites that are within the bounds of the map only.

Panning the Map

To Pan the map, left click the mouse and hold then drag the map.

Data panel

This widget is found in the panel on the left.

It provides a summary of the data available for a site chosen from the Location List in the panel on the right.

This widget can be expanded by clicking on the circle that appears when you move your mouse cursor over the upper right corner of the panel. The panel can be reset to its original size by clicking on the same circle again.

You can naviate through the available data for the selected location by clicking on the arrows at the botton of the panel.

The following site information is available:

• Mean sea level rise AR6 (IPCC Assessment Report 6) for 3 future scenarios. The change in sea level is relative the the benchmark year 2010.
• Mean sea level rise AR5 (IPCC Assessment Report 5) for 3 future scenarios. The change in sea level is relative the the benchmark year 2010.
• Vertical allowance AR6 (IPCC Assessment Report 6) for 3 future scenarios. The allowance is relative the the benchmark year 2010.
• Vertical allowance AR5 (IPCC Assessment Report 5) for 3 future scenarios. The allowance is relative the the benchmark year 2010.
• Reference water level for three vertical datums provided by the Canadian Hydrgraphic Service.
• Wave climate for the winter and summer season (present and future). Wave information is not available at all sites.
• Site metadata including location code, location name, province, longitude, latitude and location type.

Disclaimer button

This widget is found in the top right. Click the white circle with the excamation mark (!).

It contains the application disclaimers.

Help button

This widget is found in the top right. Click the white circle with a question mark (?).

It provides information on how to use the application.