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Spatially representative climate data are required input in various agricultural and environmental modelling studies. An agricultural ecodistrict climate database for Canada was developed from climate station data using a spatial interpolation procedure. This database includes daily maximum and minimum air temperatures, precipitation and incoming global solar radiation, which are necessary inputs for many agricultural modelling studies. The spatial interpolation procedure combines inverse distance squared weighting with the nearest neighbour approach. Cross-validation was performed to evaluate the accuracy of the interpolation procedure. In addition to some common error measurements, such as mean biased error and root mean square error, empirical probability distributions and accurate rates of precipitation occurrence were also examined. Results show that the magnitude of errors for this database was similar to those in other studies that used similar or different interpolation procedures. The average root mean square error (RMSE) was 1.7°C, 2.2°C and 3.8 mm for daily maximum and minimum temperature, and precipitation, respectively. The RMSE for solar radiation varied from 16 to 19% of the climate normal during April through September and from 21 to 28% of the climate normal during the remainder of the year.Key words: Maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation, solar radiation, ecodistrict, interpolation, cross validation

Abstract. The co-occurrence of storm tide and rainstorm during tropical cyclones (TCs) can lead to compound flooding in low-lying coastal regions. The assessment of TC compound flood risk can provide vital insight for research on coastal flooding prevention. This study investigates TC compound flooding by constructing a storm surge model and overland flooding model using Delft3D Flexible Mesh (DFM), illustrating the serious consequences from the perspective of storm tide. Based on the probability distribution of storm tide, this study regards TC1415 as the 100-year event, TC6311 as the 50-year event, TC8616 as the 25-year event, TC8007 as the 10-year event, and TC7109 as the 5-year event. The results indicate that the coastal area is a major floodplain, primarily due to storm tide, with the inundation severity positively correlated with the height of the storm tide. For 100-year TC event, the inundation area with a depth above 1.0 m increases by approximately 2.5 times when compared with 5-year TC event. Comparing single-driven flood (storm tide flooding and rainstorm inundation) and compound flood hazards shows that simply accumulating every single-driven flood hazard to define the compound flood hazard may cause underestimation.