Climate Data Products

Climate Data Products at Environment Canada comprise of four different datasets: Almanac Averages and Extremes, Monthly Climate Summaries, Canadian Climate Normals, and Canadian Historical Weather Radar. Almanac Averages and Extremes provides average and extreme temperature and precipitation values for a particular station over its entire period of record. Monthly Climate Summaries contains values of various climatic parameters, including monthly averages and extremes of temperature, precipitation amounts, degree days, sunshine hours, days without precipitation, etc. Canadian Climate Normals are used to summarize or describe the average climatic conditions of a particular location. Data is available for stations with at least 15 years of data between the periods of 1961-1990, 1971-2000 and 1981-2010. Canadian Historical Weather Radar compirses of historical images from the radar network providing a national overview of where percipitation is occuring.

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Metadata Record Information

File Identifier
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Date Stamp
2022-01-21T14:39:05
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

  • average temperature

  • extreme temperature

  • mean temperature

  • days without precipitation

  • snowfall (cm)

  • total precipitation

  • sunshine hours

  • degree days below 18

  • degree days above 18

  • percent of normal precipitation

  • highest temperature

  • lowest temperature

  • greatest rainfall

  • greatest snowfall

  • most snow on the ground

  • average maximum temperature

  • average minimum temperature

  • normales climatiques

  • radar

  • historical radar

  • precipitation

  • almanac

ECCC Information Category EN

  • Weather and Climate

Business Functions

  • Deliver Climate Products and Services to Clients

  • Provide Climate Information Products and Services

Geography

  • National (CA)

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

  • Climate change

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
1840-01-01

Extent

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Ref. system Reference Systems

Reference system identifier
EPSG / EPSG:4326 /
 

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Distribution Formats

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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

almanac average maximum temperature average minimum temperature average temperature days without precipitation degree days above 18 degree days below 18 extreme temperature greatest rainfall greatest snowfall highest temperature historical radar lowest temperature mean temperature most snow on the ground normales climatiques percent of normal precipitation precipitation radar snowfall (cm) sunshine hours total precipitation
Business Functions
Deliver Climate Products and Services to Clients Provide Climate Information Products and Services
ECCC Information Category EN
Weather and Climate
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
Climate change
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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