Engineering Climate Datasets

Engineering Climate Datasets encompasses Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) Files, Canadian Weather Energy and Engineering Datasets (CWEEDS), and Canadian Weather Year For Energy Calculation (CWEC). IDF tabulates and graphs short-duration rainfall statistics across 563 locations in Canada. CWEEDS is a computer dataset of hourly conditions at specific locations, including data from 1953 until 2005. It also includes long term weather records used in urban planning and green building design, as well as estimates of hourly solar radiation amounts. CWEC datasets are created by combining 12 "Typical Meteorological Months" selected from a database of, usually, 30 years of data. Months are chosen by comparing individual means with long term monthly means for daily global radiation, mean, minimum and maximum DB temperature, mean, minimum and maximum dew point temperature, and mean and maximum wind speed.

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Metadata Record Information

File Identifier
2b9bc161-ca00-4a1e-9c75-58ed621ef4b1 XML
Date Stamp
2021-12-10T16:16:22
Metadata language

eng; CAN
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy Level
Dataset
Author
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Environment and Climate Change Canada ( Public inquiries centre )
Fontaine Building 12th floor, 200 Sacré-Coeur Blvd , Gatineau , Quebec , K1A 0H3 , Canada
1-800-668-6767
http://ec.gc.ca
 

Data identification

Date (Publication)
2014-02-14
Date (Creation)
2014-02-14
Status
On going
Metadata language

eng; CAN
Metadata language

fra; CAN
Character set
US ASCII
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Maintenance and Update Frequency
As needed
Spatial representation type
Vector
Point of contact
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Meteorological Service of Canada - National Inquiry ( National Inquiry Response Team )
77 Westmorland Street, Suite 260 , Fredericton , New Brunswick , E3B 6Z3 , Canada
+01-819-997-2800
+01-506-451-6010
Hours of Service

0900h-1500h EST

Keywords

Theme

  • rainfall

  • rain intensity

  • rain frequency

  • intensity-duration-frequency

  • idf

  • short-duration

  • idf curve

  • hourly

  • long-term weather records

  • solar radiation

  • cwec

  • cweeds

  • canadian weather for energy calculation

  • engineering

ECCC Information Category EN

  • Weather and Climate

Business Functions

  • Provide Weather Information Products and Services

  • Deliver Weather Products and Services to Clients

Geography

  • National (CA)

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

  • Climate

external.theme.EC_Branch

  • Meteorological Service of Canada

external.theme.EC_Directorate

  • Weather and Environmental Monitoring

external.theme.GC_Security_Level

  • Unclassified
 
Use Limitation

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

Access Constraints
License
Use Constraints
License
Begin Date
1984-10-01

Extent

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Ref. system Reference Systems

Reference system identifier
EPSG / EPSG:4326 /
 

Distribution

Distribution Formats

Distribution format
  • ZIP ( unknown )

 
Distributor
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Environment and Climate Change Canada ( Public inquiries centre )
Fontaine Building 12th floor, 200 Sacré-Coeur Blvd , Gatineau , Quebec , K1A 0H3 , Canada
1-800-668-6767
http://ec.gc.ca
 
 

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Keywords

canadian weather for energy calculation cwec cweeds engineering hourly idf idf curve intensity-duration-frequency long-term weather records rain frequency rain intensity rainfall short-duration solar radiation
Business Functions
Deliver Weather Products and Services to Clients Provide Weather Information Products and Services
ECCC Information Category EN
Weather and Climate
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
Climate
external.theme.EC_Branch
Meteorological Service of Canada
external.theme.EC_Directorate
Weather and Environmental Monitoring
external.theme.GC_Security_Level
Unclassified

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