Environment and Climate Change Canada

2 datasets found
  • Open Data

    Weather Radar - CAPPI

    Due to the curvature of the Earth, the height of a radar beam, in relation to the ground, increases as it travels further from the radar. When the radar is pointed down near the ground (a low elevation angle), the beam starts off near the ground but then its height above the ground slowly...
    Organization:
    Environment and Climate Change Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • GIF
    • HTML
  • Open Data

    Weather Radar - DPQPE

    DPQPE product: DPQPE stands for: Dual Polarization Quantitative Precipitation Estimation. The DPQPE product is available only for S-Band radars. It is a two-dimensional representation of the precipitation rate estimated by the lowest sweep of the radar (elevation angle of 0.4 degrees for the...
    Organization:
    Environment and Climate Change Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • GIF
    • HTML