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Description

This data set contains hourly and daily meteorological data from 23 meteorological stations across Canada from January 1975 to January 1997. The surface meteorology parameters include: date, time, temperature, precipitation, snow, snow depth, sea level pressure, station pressure, dew point, wind direction, wind speed, dry and wet bulb temperature, relative humidity, cloud opacity and cloud amount.

Product Summary

Platforms
METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS
Instruments
SNOW MEASURING ROD ,
TEMPERATURE LOGGERS ,
HUMIDITY SENSORS ,
RAIN GAUGES ,
WIND MONITOR ,
VISUAL OBSERVATIONS ,
BAROMETERS ,
ANEMOMETERS ,
DEWPOINT HYDROMETERS ,
DRY BULB THERMOMETERS ,
WET BULB THERMOMETERS
Projects
BOREAS
Spatial Extent

N: 57.35 S: 52.17 E: -97.83 W: -107.87

Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
1975-01-01 to 1997-01-01
Data Partner
THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC) (ORNL_DAAC)
Concept ID
C2759278030-ORNL_CLOUD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
2
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Snow ,
Snow Depth ,
Rain ,
Air Temperature ,
Cloud Dynamics ,
Humidity ,
Atmospheric Pressure Measurements ,
Maximum/Minimum Temperature ,
Wind Speed ,
Wind Direction ,
Dew Point Temperature ,
Sea Level Pressure

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Funk, B. (2017). BOREAS AES Canadian Hourly and Daily Surface Meteorological Data, R1 (Version 2). ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/235 Date Accessed: 2026-08-14

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