Extreme Weather Indices: Wind
Winds can significantly influence crop growth and yield mainly due to mechanical damage of plant vegetative and reproductive organs, an imbalance of plant-soil-atmosphere water relationships such as evapotranspiration, and pest and disease distributions in agricultural fields. The maximum wind speed and the number of strong wind days over the forecast period represent short term and extended strong wind events respectively.
Agriculture is an important primary production sector in Canada. Agricultural production, profitability, sustainability and food security depend on many agrometeorological factors. Extreme weather events in Canada, such as drought, floods, heat waves, frosts and high intensity storms, have the ability to significantly impact field crop production.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) have together developed a suite of extreme agrometeorological indices based on four main categories of weather factors: temperature, precipitation, heat, and wind. The extreme weather indices are intended as short-term prediction tools and generated using ECCC’s medium range forecasts to create a weekly index product on a daily basis.
- Publisher - Current Organization Name: Environment and Climate Change Canada
- Licence: Open Government Licence - Canada
Data and Resources
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Data Product Specification (English)PDFEnglish guide PDF
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Extreme Weather Indices: WindESRI RESTEnglish web_service ESRI REST
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Extreme Weather Indices: WindESRI RESTFrench web_service ESRI REST
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Extreme Weather Indices: WindWMSEnglish web_service WMS
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Extreme Weather Indices: WindWMSFrench web_service WMS
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Data Product Specification (French)PDFFrench guide PDF
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Pre-packaged GeoTIF files (No linguistic component)GeoTIFNo linguistic content; Not applicable dataset GeoTIF
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Pre-packaged Maps (English)PDFEnglish guide PDF
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Pre-packaged Maps (French)PDFFrench guide PDF
Geographic Information
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