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Monthly Areas of Drought in Canada

The Canadian Drought Monitor (CDM) brings together Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's drought monitoring capabilities and collaboration with external agencies (federal and provincial) to produce, through analysis and consolidation of multiple indices and indicators, an easily understood comprehensive national drought severity map and report each month. The monitor provides specific details on agricultural impacts of the current drought situation, including statistics on land area, cattle, and the number of producers impacted.

The Canadian Drought Monitors are based on a five class system ranking the severity of the drought condition. The Monitor map identifies general drought areas, labelling droughts by intensity, with D1 being the least intense and D4 being the most intense. The classifications are as follows: D0 (Abnormally Dry) - represents an event that occurs once every 3-5 years; D1 (Moderate Drought) - represents an event that occurs every 5-10 years; D2 (Severe Drought) - represents an event that occurs every 10-20 years; D3 (Extreme Drought) - represents an event that occurs every 20-25 years; and D4 (Exceptional Drought) - represents an event that occurs every 50 years.

D0 is not recognized as a drought classification; however, it provides a warning of areas

that are currently vulnerable to drought or areas that are recovering from drought. For more information visit: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/292646cd-619f-4200-afb1-8b2c52f984a2

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Date ( Revision )
2020-06-17T02:04:28Z
Date ( Publication )
2017-06-30T09:08:13Z
Point of contact
  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada -
Canada
Keywords ( Theme )
  • climate, precipitation, drought
Service Type
OGC:WMS
Service Version
1.3.0
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© Government of Canada (2018). Data are subject to the Government of Canada Open Data Licence Agreement: http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada. The terms of this Agreement govern your use and reproduction of the data instead of the copyright reproduction statements found in Important Notices on the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada website.

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OnLine resource
https://www.agr.gc.ca/atlas/services/mapservices/aafc_canadian_drought_monitor/MapServer/WmsServer?SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities
OnLine resource
Service in Spatineo Directory ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Service in Spatineo Directory

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Character set
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Hierarchy level
Service
Date stamp
2021-02-28T18:13:09Z
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  Spatineo Inc.
Kellosilta 2 D , Helsinki , FI-00520 , Finland
+358 20 703 2210
 
 

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