Identification

Title

Canadian climate summary: Monthly review of Canadian climate and water

Abstract

This resource contains climatological information observed and compiled by the Canadian Meteorological Centre. It includes visual summary of monthly information; Maps of departure from normal mean temperature, mean temperature; Weather extremes (minimum temperature, maximum temperature, greatest precipitation by territory; maps of percent normal precipitation, total precipitation; Table of seasonal total of heating degree-days to end of month, maps of heating energy requirement (heating degree-days): by month and through the season; maps of 50 kPa atmospheric circulation of Arctic pole: mean geopotential heights, mean geopotential anomaly, normal geopotential heights, mean difference w/r to previous month; Tabular summary of monthly climate observations by station: temperature, snowfall, precipitation, bright sunshine 9hrs), degree-days below 18 C.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

Unique resource identifier

code

ocn237075958

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

geoscientificInformation

2017-07-14

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

East bounding longitude

North bounding latitude

South bounding latitude

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1996-01-01

End position

1998-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

1998-12-31

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

This resource is available as a physical item in the Library of the NCAR Mesa Laboratory in Boulder, CO. Any further access limitations, such as copyright restrictions, are described on the resources themselves.

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Library

full postal address

Boulder

USA

email address

ncarref@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact