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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 from 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.

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Date ( RI_367 )
2024-11-28
Date ( RI_366 )
2018-03-08
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Meteorological Service of Canada
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 )
  • Atmospheric conditions
  • Meteorology
  • Weather
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Radar
  • Remote sensing
  • Weather
Business Functions Fonctions de l'entreprise ( RI_528 )
  • Deliver Weather Products and Services to Clients
  • Provide Weather Information Products and Services
Branch Direction Générale ( RI_528 )
  • Meteorological Service of Canada
Directorate Direction ( RI_528 )
  • Weather and Environmental Operations
Geography Portée Géographique ( Place )
  • 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
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Begin date
2018-03-08
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Reference system identifier
http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:4326 /
Distribution format
  • WMS ( 1.3.0 )

RI_412
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Meteorological Service of Canada
77 Westmorland Street, suite 260 , Fredericton , New Brunswick , E3B 6Z4 , Canada
+01-819-997-2800
+01-506-451-6010
OnLine resource
Radar precipitation rate (Rain) (1 km) [mm/h] ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;eng

OnLine resource
Radar precipitation rate (Rain) (1 km) [mm/h] ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;fra

OnLine resource
MSC Open Data documentation ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;HTML;eng

OnLine resource
MSC Open Data documentation ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;HTML;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
2025-03-10T18:17:06.895Z
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
77 Westmorland Street, suite 260 , Fredericton , New Brunswick , E3B 6Z4 , Canada
+01-819-997-2800
+01-506-451-6010
 
 

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