Mesonet Marine Stations Observations: Buoy 45155 - TO2015 Pan and Parapan American Games

The high spatial and temporal resolution network was comprised of new automated land- and marine-based weather stations, and additional experimental monitoring platforms. Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) designed the Mesonet to monitor weather at the venues, while providing close tracking of southern Ontario lake breezes, which can be associated with severe weather initiation and high air pollutant concentrations. To track the lake breeze, existing land and marine monitoring capacity was identified and expanded to define the Mesonet.


The Games hosted a number of open-water events in the inner harbour and south of the Toronto Islands, an area where the competition or logistics could be affected by thunderstorms, severe weather or heat stress. Marine buoys were part of the Mesonet system of additional monitoring technologies, with higher than standard temporal reporting, put in place to inform the ECCC forecast process. The more frequent reporting of marine weather conditions was a test and evaluation designed to determine whether it could provide an improvement in marine forecast accuracy or response times for alerts during active marine weather conditions.


The AXYS WatchKeeper™ buoy is a self-contained, solar-powered data acquisition system outfitted with a suite of meteorological and oceanographic instrumentation to measure wind speed and direction, air temperature, atmospheric pressure, water temperature, and wave height, period and direction. This WatchKeeper™ buoy is the first in Canada outfitted with a cellular modem to enable the transmission of weather reports every 10 minutes (standard is once per hour), directly to CMC in Montréal.


All data in these datasets are essentially ‘raw’, having undergone only minimal automated Quality Control (QC). The user is referred to an additional Instrumentation Metadata XLS file posted with the Datasets that describes specific data issues that the users must be aware of before using the datasets.

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Metadata Record Information

File Identifier
c6d4d9c8-6632-4134-b273-45d44dd67862 XML
Date Stamp
2021-05-14T17:23:21
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 (Creation)
2015-08-31
Date (Publication)
2016-06-30
Status
Completed
Metadata language

eng; CAN
Character set
UTF8
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 - Diane Johnston ( Pan American and Parapan American Games Project Lead )
4905 Dufferin Street , Toronto , Ontario , M3H 5T4 , Canada
416-739-4128

Keywords

Theme

  • TO2015, 2015 Games, 2015, Pan Am, Parapan Am, Ontario, Southern Ontario, Lake Ontario, Great Lakes, Environment Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, MSC, Meteorological Service of Canada, atmospheric monitoring, marine, meteorology, weather, weather observations, weather stations, technology, science, research, raw data, buoy, moored buoy, WatchKeeper, temperature, air temperature, ambient temperature, SST, sea surface temperature, lake temperature, wind, wind speed, wind direction, speed, direction, gust, pressure, station pressure, wave, wave height, wave period, wave spread, significant wave height, peak wave height

  • Observation/Measurement

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

  • Meteorological data

ECCC Information Category EN

  • Weather and Climate

Business Functions

  • Monitor Weather Parameters and Manage Data

  • Provide Weather Information Products and Services

Geography

  • Ontario (ON)

external.theme.EC_Branch

  • Meteorological Service of Canada

external.theme.EC_Directorate

  • Weather and Environmental Monitoring

external.theme.EC_Program_PAA

  • 2.1.1. Weather Observations, Forecasts and Warnings

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
2015-05-12
End Date
2015-08-31

Extent

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Ref. system Reference Systems

Reference system identifier
EPSG / 4326 /
 

Distribution

Distribution Formats

Distribution format
  • CSV ( 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

Observation/Measurement TO2015, 2015 Games, 2015, Pan Am, Parapan Am, Ontario, Southern Ontario, Lake Ontario, Great Lakes, Environment Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, MSC, Meteorological Service of Canada, atmospheric monitoring, marine, meteorology, weather, weather observations, weather stations, technology, science, research, raw data, buoy, moored buoy, WatchKeeper, temperature, air temperature, ambient temperature, SST, sea surface temperature, lake temperature, wind, wind speed, wind direction, speed, direction, gust, pressure, station pressure, wave, wave height, wave period, wave spread, significant wave height, peak wave height
Business Functions
Monitor Weather Parameters and Manage Data Provide Weather Information Products and Services
ECCC Information Category EN
Weather and Climate
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
Meteorological data
external.theme.EC_Branch
Meteorological Service of Canada
external.theme.EC_Directorate
Weather and Environmental Monitoring
external.theme.EC_Program_PAA
2.1.1. Weather Observations, Forecasts and Warnings
external.theme.GC_Security_Level
Unclassified

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