Extreme Weather Indices: Wind

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. 2023-02-23 Environment and Climate Change Canada Agri-Geomatics-Agrog@agr.gc.ca Nature and EnvironmentScience and TechnologyExtreme Weather IndicesMeteorologyAgricultureWindFarmlandsWeather forecastsWeatherClimate Data Product Specification (English)PDF https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/data_donnees/extremeWeatherIndices/supportdocument_documentdesupport/en/ISO_19131_ExtremeWeatherIndices_Wind_-_Data_Product_Specification.pdf Extreme Weather Indices: WindESRI REST https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/rest/services/mapservices/extreme_weather_indices/MapServer/174 Extreme Weather Indices: WindESRI REST https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/rest/services/mapservices/extreme_weather_indices/MapServer/174 ESRI REST – FR https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/rest/services/servicesdecarte/indices_de_conditions_meteorologiques_extremes/MapServer/174 Extreme Weather Indices: WindWMS https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/services/mapservices/extreme_weather_indices/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS&layers=174 Extreme Weather Indices: WindWMS https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/rest/services/servicesdecarte/indices_de_conditions_meteorologiques_extremes/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS&layers=174 Data Product Specification (French)PDF https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/data_donnees/extremeWeatherIndices/supportdocument_documentdesupport/fr/Indices_de_conditions_meteorologiques_extremes_Vent_SPC_ISO_19131.pdf Pre-packaged GeoTIF files (No linguistic component)GeoTIF https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/data_donnees/extremeWeatherIndices/data_donnees/tif/wind/ Pre-packaged Maps (English)PDF https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/data_donnees/extremeWeatherIndices/maps_cartes/en/wind/ Pre-packaged Maps (French)PDF https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/data_donnees/extremeWeatherIndices/maps_cartes/fr/vent/

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.

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