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The "Canada's First Fall Frost Normals (1981-2010)" dataset contains the Mean and Median First Fall Frost Julian day calculated from the ANUSPLIN gridded data set using the date range from January 1, 1981 - December 31, 2010. The dataset also includes the Mean and Median Frost Free Period (given as a count of calendar days). For the purposes of this dataset a Frost Free day is defined as a day where the minimum daily temperature is greater than 0.0 Celsius.For more information, visit: http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/c293739c-4e16-4384-bff8-e3fdaddc5e5f
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The "Canada's First Fall Frost Normals (1981-2010)" dataset contains the Mean and Median First Fall Frost Julian day calculated from the ANUSPLIN gridded data set using the date range from January 1, 1981 - December 31, 2010. The dataset also includes the Mean and Median Frost Free Period (given as a count of calendar days). For the purposes of this dataset a Frost Free day is defined as a day where the minimum daily temperature is greater than 0.0 Celsius.For more information, visit: http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/c293739c-4e16-4384-bff8-e3fdaddc5e5f
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Canadian Homogenized Surface Air Temperature – Version 3.1 (CanHomT V3.1) This dataset is an update of the Third Generation Homogenized Temperature dataset (Vincent et al. (2020), extended through 2023. It was developed for climate trend analysis and includes long-term daily maximum, minimum, and mean temperature series for 780 stations (776 locations) in Canada. The key enhancement in V3.1 is the inclusion of both Original and Adjusted data, together with their associated data flags and the source station climate ID, providing improved traceability, reproducibility, and transparency. Key processing steps include: • Merging observations from nearby sites to create long records • Quality control of data • Adjusting daily minimum temperatures since July 1961 for the observing-time (climatological day definition) change at 96 principal stations (Vincent et al., 2009) • Detecting non-climatic shifts in annual and seasonal average temperature data series using homogeneity tests with reference and station metadata. • Applying Quantile-Matching (QM) adjustments with reference data (including parallel observations) to correct non-climatic changes (Vincent et al., 2018; Wang et al., 2010). Parallel observations —simultaneous measurements from old and new instruments or locations—were used whenever available because they provide the most reliable basis for data homogenization. Adjustments made without suitable reference data carry greater uncertainty, and this increased uncertainty should be quantified and clearly communicated (WMO, 2020). The QM method adjusts the entire distribution of data in one segment to match another (Wang et al., 2026; Vincent et al., 2018; Wang & Feng, 2013; Wang et al. 2010), ensuring that distribution changes—including variance shifts—at identified changepoints are homogenized. The gridded version of monthly CanHomT V3.1, called CanGridT mlyV3.1 [https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/781e02cc-6c1b-462e-b61b-f96c607b23bd], was found to represent Canada’s warming trend reasonably well since 1900, despite changes in data availability over time (Wang et al., 2026, see their Figure S3). References Vincent, L.A., M.M. Hartwell and X.L. Wang, 2020: A Third Generation of Homogenized Temperature for Trend Analysis and Monitoring Changes in Canada’s Climate. Atmosphere-Ocean, 58(3), 173–191. https://doi.org/10.1080/07055900.2020.1765728. Vincent, L.A., E.J. Milewska, R. Hopkinson and L. Malone, 2009: Bias in minimum temperature introduced by a redefinition of the climatological day at the Canadian synoptic stations. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol, 48, 2160-2168. DOI: 10.1175/2009JAMC2191.1. Vincent, L.A., E.J. Milewska, X. L. Wang, and M. M. Hartwell, 2018. Uncertainty in homogenized daily temperatures and derived indices of extremes illustrated using parallel observations in Canada, Intl. J. Climatol., 38:2, 692-707. DOI: 10.1002/JOC.5203. Wang, X. L. and Y. Feng, published online July 2013: RHtestsV4 User Manual. Climate Research Division, Atmospheric Science and Technology Directorate, Science and Technology Branch, Environment Canada. 28 pp. [Available online at https://github.com/ECCC-CDAS] DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.17309.17125. Wang, X. L., H. Chen, Y. Wu, Y. Feng, and Q. Pu, 2010: New techniques for detection and adjustment of shifts in daily precipitation data series. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 49, 2416-2436. DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2376.1. WMO. (2020). Guidelines on Homogenization (2020 edition). World Meteorological Organization. WMO-No. 1245. https://library.wmo.int/records/item/57130-guidelines-on-homogenization?offset=1. Wang, X. L., Feng, Y., Zwiers, F. W., & Cheng, V. Y. S. (2026). Precipitation trends in version 2 of the Canadian homogenized monthly precipitation dataset. Atmosphere-Ocean, 1–16, https://doi.org/10.1080/07055900.2026.2617861.
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Anomalous weather resulting in Temperature and Precipitation extremes occurs almost every day somewhere in Canada. For the purpose of identifying and tabulating daily extremes of record for temperature, precipitation and snowfall, the Meteorological Service of Canada has threaded or put together data from closely related stations to compile a long time series of data for about 750 locations in Canada to monitor for record-breaking weather. Virtual Climate stations correspond with the city pages of weather.gc.ca. This data provides the daily extremes of record for Temperature for each day of the year. Daily elements include: High Maximum, Low Maximum, High Minimum, Low Minimum.
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CaLDAS-NSRPS was installed as an experimental system within the National Surface and River Prediction System (NSRPS) at Environment and Climate Change Canada's (ECCC) Canadian Centre for Meteorological and Environmental Prediction (CCMEP) in July 2019. CaLDAS-NSRPS is a continuous offline land-surface assimilation system, which provides analyses of the land surface every 3 h over the domain of the High-Resolution Deterministic Prediction System (HRDPS) at a 2.5 km grid spacing. The emphasis in CaLDAS-NSRPS is to focus upon the assimilation of satellite based remote sensing observations to provide the optimal initial conditions for the predictive components of the NSRPS, the High Resolution Deterministic/Ensemble Land Surface Prediction System (HRDLPS/HRELPS) and the Deterministic/Ensemble Hydrological Prediction Systems (DHPS/EHPS). CaLDAS-NSRPS is launched 4 times per day, at 0000, 0600, 1200, and 1800 UTC.
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This dataset is included the following meteorological parameters: wind speed, wind direction, visibility, total clouds cover, air temperature, sea level pressure, pressure tendency, amount of pressure tendency, present weather(code), sea surface temperature, height of wind waves and etc. Ship Callsign:"UANA". Research vessel:"Fridtjof Nansen".
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The Canadian Seasonal to Inter-annual Prediction System (CanSIPS) carries out physics calculations to arrive at probabilistic predictions of atmospheric elements from the beginning of a month out to up to 12 months into the future, resulting in seasonal forecasts. Atmospheric elements include temperature, precipitation, wind speed and direction and others. This product contains raw numerical results of these calculations. Geographical coverage is global. Data is available on a grid at a horizontal resolution of 2.5 degrees and 1 degree and for a few selected vertical levels. In addition, forecast probabilities for below, near, and above normal temperature and precipitation are available at both resolutions. Predictions and corresponding hindcast are made available monthly.
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This dataset is included the following parameters: water temperature, salinity,air temperature,visibility (code). Research vessel:"Mikhail Somov".
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The Canadian Seasonal to Inter-annual Prediction System (CanSIPS) carries out physics calculations to arrive at probabilistic predictions of atmospheric elements from the beginning of a month out to up to 12 months into the future, resulting in seasonal forecasts. Atmospheric elements include temperature, precipitation, wind speed and direction and others. This product contains raw numerical results of these calculations. Geographical coverage is global. Data is available on a grid at a horizontal resolution of 2.5 degrees and 1 degree and for a few selected vertical levels. In addition, forecast probabilities for below, near, and above normal temperature and precipitation are available at both resolutions. Predictions and corresponding hindcast are made available monthly.
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This dataset is included the following meteorological parameters:wind speed,wind direction,visibility,total clouds cover,air temperature,dew point temperature,sea level pressure,pressure tendency,amount of pressure tendency,present weather,sea surface temperature,height of wind waves,direction of primary swell waves,concentration of arrangement of sea ice. Research vessel: "Akademik Fedorov". Call sign: "UCKZ".
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