Mesonet Automated Land Stations Observations - TO2015 Pan and Parapan American Games

Mesonet Automated Land Stations Observations - TO2015 Pan and Parapan American Games Environment and Climate Change Canada added 40 compact stations, 10 ATMOS stations and 3 standard automated MSC Auto8 stations to the existing networks to form a high-resolution monitoring system across southern Ontario known as the Mesonet. These stations provided both high-density spacing and high-frequency minute-by-minute observations. Standard meteorological variables were reported—atmospheric pressure, wind speed and direction, relative humidity, temperature and precipitation amounts—as well as a new element recorded by a black globe thermometer, used in the evaluation of heat stress on the human body. The new automated surface weather stations were configured to report every minute, a sharp departure from the standard hourly reporting. The minute-by-minute reporting was successfully implemented at all 53 new automated weather stations in the Mesonet. All data in these datasets are essentially ‘raw’, having undergone only minimal automated Quality Control (QC) (manual QC of the ATMOS Mesonet data will be posted to the Science Showcase section of the Legacy Archive, when available). 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. Site photos for all 53 weather stations are available from the Legacy Archive Data Contact. 2022-02-21 Environment and Climate Change Canada open-ouvert@tbs-sct.gc.ca Nature and EnvironmentTO20152015 Games2015Pan AmParapan AmOntarioSouthern OntarioTorontoEnvironment CanadaEnvironment and Climate Change CanadaMSCMeteorological Service of Canadaatmospheric monitoringmeteorologyweatherweather observationsweather stationsautomated stationscompact weather stationstechnologyscienceresearchATMOSVaisala WXT520Lufft WS600Luftt WS601minutely dataraw dataprecipitationrainfalltemperatureambient temperatureair temperaturedew point temperaturewet bulb temperatureBlack Globe temperaturewindwind speedwind directionspeeddirectiongusthumidityrelative humiditypressureMSLmean sea level pressurestation pressurepressure tendency 2015-05-31 Land-surface.csvCSV https://data-donnees.ec.gc.ca/data/weather/monitor/to2015-pan-and-parapan-american-games-atmospheric-monitoring-observations/mesonet-automated-land-stations-observations-to2015-pan-and-parapan-american-games/2015-05-31_Land-surface.csv 2015-08-01 Land-surface.csvCSV https://data-donnees.ec.gc.ca/data/weather/monitor/to2015-pan-and-parapan-american-games-atmospheric-monitoring-observations/mesonet-automated-land-stations-observations-to2015-pan-and-parapan-american-games/2015-08-01_Land-surface.csv Data DocumentationXLS https://data-donnees.ec.gc.ca/data/weather/monitor/to2015-pan-and-parapan-american-games-atmospheric-monitoring-observations/Data_Documentation/ Fact Sheets - TO2015 Pan and Parapan American GamesPDF https://data-donnees.ec.gc.ca/data/weather/predict/Fact_Sheets-TO2015_Pan_and_Parapan_American_Games/ Fact Sheets - TO2015 Pan and Parapan American Games (French)PDF https://data-donnees.ec.gc.ca/data/weather/predict/Fiches_d'information-Jeux_panamericains_et_parapanamericains_de_TO2015/ Historical Climate Data (hourly)HTML https://climate.weather.gc.ca/historical_data/search_historic_data_e.html Product User GuidePDF https://data-donnees.ec.gc.ca/data/weather/monitor/to2015-pan-and-parapan-american-games-atmospheric-monitoring-observations/Product_User_Guide/ Report - TO2015 Pan and Parapan American Games ExperiencePDF https://data-donnees.ec.gc.ca/data/weather/predict/TO2015_Pan_and_Parapan_American_Games_Experience/ StationsXLS https://data-donnees.ec.gc.ca/data/weather/monitor/to2015-pan-and-parapan-american-games-atmospheric-monitoring-observations/Stations/ View EC Data Mart HTML https://data-donnees.ec.gc.ca/data/weather/monitor/to2015-pan-and-parapan-american-games-atmospheric-monitoring-observations/mesonet-automated-land-stations-observations-to2015-pan-and-parapan-american-games/ View EC Data Mart (French)HTML https://data-donnees.ec.gc.ca/data/weather/monitor/to2015-pan-and-parapan-american-games-atmospheric-monitoring-observations/mesonet-automated-land-stations-observations-to2015-pan-and-parapan-american-games/?lang=fr

Environment and Climate Change Canada added 40 compact stations, 10 ATMOS stations and 3 standard automated MSC Auto8 stations to the existing networks to form a high-resolution monitoring system across southern Ontario known as the Mesonet. These stations provided both high-density spacing and high-frequency minute-by-minute observations. Standard meteorological variables were reported—atmospheric pressure, wind speed and direction, relative humidity, temperature and precipitation amounts—as well as a new element recorded by a black globe thermometer, used in the evaluation of heat stress on the human body.

The new automated surface weather stations were configured to report every minute, a sharp departure from the standard hourly reporting. The minute-by-minute reporting was successfully implemented at all 53 new automated weather stations in the Mesonet.

All data in these datasets are essentially ‘raw’, having undergone only minimal automated Quality Control (QC) (manual QC of the ATMOS Mesonet data will be posted to the Science Showcase section of the Legacy Archive, when available). 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.

Site photos for all 53 weather stations are available from the Legacy Archive Data Contact.

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