Environment and Climate Change Canada

4 datasets found
  • Open Data

    Extreme Weather Indices: Heat

    Cumulative heat-energy satisfies the essential requirement of field crop growth and development towards a high yield and good quality of agricultural crop products. Agriculture is an important primary production sector in Canada. Agricultural production, profitability, sustainability and food...
    Organization:
    Environment and Climate Change Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • PDF
    • ESRI REST
    • WMS
    • GeoTIF
  • Open Data

    Extreme Weather Indices: Precipitation

    Precipitation (moisture availability) establishes the economic yield potential and product quality of field crops. Both dry and wet precipitation extremes have the ability to inhibit proper crop growth. The maximum daily precipitation index covers the risk of excessive precipitation in the short...
    Organization:
    Environment and Climate Change Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • PDF
    • ESRI REST
    • WMS
    • GeoTIF
  • Open Data

    Extreme Weather Indices: Temperature

    Temperature is a key factor affecting the physiological development of field crops as well as crop yield and agricultural product quality achieved during the growing season. Crop responses to the temperature are characterized by three important cardinal temperature indices; the cardinal minimum...
    Organization:
    Environment and Climate Change Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • PDF
    • ESRI REST
    • WMS
    • GeoTIF
  • Open Data

    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...
    Organization:
    Environment and Climate Change Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • PDF
    • ESRI REST
    • WMS
    • GeoTIF