North American Radar Composite (1 km)
This mosaic is calculated over the North American domain with a horizontal spatial resolution of 1 km. This mosaic therefore includes all the Canadian and American radars available in the network and which can reach a maximum of 180 contributing radars. To better represent precipitation over the different seasons, this mosaic renders in mm/h to represent rain and in cm/h to represent snow. For the two precipitation types (rain and snow), we use two different mathematical relationships to convert the reflectivity by rainfall rates (mm/h rain cm/h for snow). This is a hybrid mosaic composed of different estimation precipitation products : PRECIP-ET product used only for C-Band radars (which are in the process of being replaced with S-Band radars) and DPQPE (Dual-Pol Quantitative Precipitation Estimation) for S-Band radars. For the US Nexrad radars, ECCC uses the most similar product from the US Meteorological Service (NOAA). This product displays radar reflectivity converted into precipitation rates, using the same formulas as the Canadian radars.
Simple
- Date ( RI_367 )
- 2023-02-02
- Date ( RI_366 )
- 2018-03-08
RI_414
Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Meteorological Service of Canada
+01-506-451-6010
77 Westmorland Street, suite 260
,
Fredericton
,
New Brunswick
,
E3B 6Z4
,
Canada
+01-819-997-2800
+01-506-451-6010
- Status
- onGoing; enContinue RI_596
- Maintenance and update frequency
- continual; continue RI_532
- Keywords ( RI_528 )
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- Atmospheric conditions
- Meteorology
- Weather
- Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( Theme )
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- Radar
- Remote sensing
- Weather
- Business Functions Fonctions de l'entreprise ( Theme )
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- Provide Weather Information Products and Services
- Deliver Weather Products and Services to Clients
- Branch Direction Générale ( Theme )
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- Meteorological Service of Canada
- Directorate Direction ( Theme )
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- Weather and Environmental Operations
- Geography Portée Géographique ( Place )
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- International
- Use limitation
- Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions; autresRestrictions RI_609
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions; autresRestrictions RI_609
- Spatial representation type
- grid; grille RI_636
- Metadata language
- eng; CAN
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 2018-03-08
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- Reference system identifier
- http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:4326 /
- Distribution format
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WMS
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1.3.0
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WMS
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1.3.0
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RI_412
Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Meteorological Service of Canada
+01-506-451-6010
77 Westmorland Street, suite 260
,
Fredericton
,
New Brunswick
,
E3B 6Z4
,
Canada
+01-819-997-2800
+01-506-451-6010
- OnLine resource
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Radar precipitation rate (Rain) (1 km) [mm/h]
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OGC:WMS
)
Web Service;WMS;eng
- OnLine resource
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Radar precipitation rate (Rain) (1 km) [mm/h]
(
OGC:WMS
)
Web Service;WMS;fra
- File identifier
- 37aecae5-7783-4274-b595-df02aa003ac3 XML
- Metadata language
- eng; CAN
- Character set
- utf8; utf8 RI_458
- Hierarchy level
- dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
- Date stamp
- 2023-02-03T20:01:42
- Metadata standard name
- North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
- CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_414
Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Meteorological Service of Canada
+01-506-451-6010
77 Westmorland Street, suite 260
,
Fredericton
,
New Brunswick
,
E3B 6Z4
,
Canada
+01-819-997-2800
+01-506-451-6010
Overviews

ecdc_thumbnail_radar-composite.jpg
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