Long Term Climate Extremes, Virtual Climate Stations
A Virtual Climate station is the result of threading together climate data from proximate current and historical stations to construct a long term threaded data set. For the purpose of identifying and tabulating daily extremes of record for temperature, precipitation and snowfall, the Meteorological Service of Canada has threaded or put together data from closely related stations to compile a long time series of data for about 750 locations in Canada to monitor for record-breaking weather. The length of the time series of virtual stations is often greater than 100 years. A Virtual Climate station is always named for an “Area” rather than a point, e.g. Winnipeg Area, to indicate that the data are drawn from that area (within a 20km radius from the urban center) rather than a single precise location.
- Publisher - Current Organization Name: Environment and Climate Change Canada
- Licence: Open Government Licence - Canada
Data and Resources
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MSC DatamartCSVEnglish dataset CSV
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MSC DatamartCSVFrench dataset CSV
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MSC Datamart AMQPCSVEnglish dataset CSV
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MSC Datamart AMQPCSVFrench dataset CSV
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OGC API - FeaturesGEOJSONEnglish application GEOJSON
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OGC API - FeaturesGEOJSONFrench application GEOJSON
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MSC Open Data documentationHTMLEnglish guide HTML
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MSC Open Data documentationHTMLFrench guide HTML
Contact Information
Delivery Point: 77 Westmorland Street, suite 260
City: Fredericton
Administrative Area: New Brunswick
Postal Code: E3B 6Z4
Country: Canada
Electronic Mail Address: ECWeather-Meteo@ec.gc.ca