Ocean Weather Station Papa, 1949-1981

The Canadian Weathership Program collected meteorological data at Station Papa (50N, 145W) in the North Pacific Ocean between 1949 and 1981. In 2014, researchers at the University of Washington (UW) Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) analyzed this historic data to determine its efficacy as a scientific tool. The data available here are the Government of Canada data files that were utilized for this analysis. The "OWSP Full Data (1949-1981)" file contains the entire Canadian Weathership Program record of data collected from Station Papa and the "OWSP Daily Averaged Wind Speed and Wave Height Data (1949-1981)" file contains daily averaged values of wind speed and wave height generated by the UW APL and NOAA PMEL researchers. The Data Dictionary for each data file contains notes on any quality controls that were applied to the data by the UW APL and NOAA PMEL researchers. The UW documents titled, "Data Documentation for Dataset 1170 (DSI-1170), Surface Marine Data, National Climatic Data Center" (https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/bitstream/handle/1773/25570/td1170.pdf?sequence=6&isAllowed=y) and "Table detailing units of data values in each file" (https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/25570), provide further information on the key values, point scales, and other units that were used in these datasets.

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Date ( RI_367 )
2021-04-09
Date ( RI_366 )
2021-02-04
RI_409
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada;Ocean Sciences Division - Di Wan ( Data Products Manager )
Institute of Ocean Sciences 9860 West Saanich Road P.O. Box 6000 , Sidney , British Columbia , V8L 4B2 , Canada
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  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada;Ocean Sciences Division - Di Wan ( Data Products Manager )
Institute of Ocean Sciences 9860 West Saanich Road P.O. Box 6000 , Sidney , British Columbia , V8L 4B2 , Canada
Status
completed; complété RI_593
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned; nonPlanifié RI_542
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Climate
  • Weather
Classification
unclassified; nonClassifié RI_484
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
license; licence RI_606
Spatial representation type
grid; grille RI_636
Metadata language
eng
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Topic category
  • Oceans
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Begin date
1949-11-10
End date
1981-06-21
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Reference system identifier
http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:4326 /
Distribution format
  • CSV ( Unknown )

  • PDF ( Unknown )

RI_412
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada;Ocean Sciences Division - Di Wan ( Data Products Manager )
Institute of Ocean Sciences 9860 West Saanich Road P.O. Box 6000 , Sidney , British Columbia , V8L 4B2 , Canada
OnLine resource
Data Dictionary ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

OnLine resource
Data Dictionary ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;fra

OnLine resource
OWSP Daily Averaged Wind Speed and Wave Height Data (1949-1981) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;CSV;eng

OnLine resource
OWSP Daily Averaged Wind Speed and Wave Height Data (1949-1981) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;CSV;fra

OnLine resource
OWSP Full Data (1949-1981) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;CSV;eng

OnLine resource
OWSP Full Data (1949-1981) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;CSV;fra

OnLine resource
Ocean Weather Station Papa (1949-1981) ( ESRI REST: Map Server )

Web Service;ESRI REST;eng

OnLine resource
Ocean Weather Station Papa (1949-1981) ( ESRI REST: Map Server )

Web Service;ESRI REST;fra

OnLine resource
References ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng,fra

File identifier
561d3400-2e4c-4eb7-a042-f3135ab38224 XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2025-02-06T00:15:00.403Z
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_410
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada;Ocean Sciences Division - Di Wan ( Data Products Manager )
Institute of Ocean Sciences 9860 West Saanich Road P.O. Box 6000 , Sidney , British Columbia , V8L 4B2 , Canada
 
 

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