MSC Observations
From variable 3.5
Summary of observation-based historical datasets with total precipitation available.
- source
- MSC/ECCC
- data type
- Station data
- spatial domain
- Canada
- spatial resolution
- Point data
- temporal coverage
- Variable (1940 to present)
- time step
- Hourly; Daily; Monthly
- data format
- CSV; GeoJSON
- comments
- In-situ measurements at the automatic and manual stations of ECCC that include daily climate stations, which produce one or two observations per day of temperature and precipitation, and hourly stations, which typically measure more meteorological variables. It provides values for total precipitation, rain, snowfall as well as for the number of days when those variables are higher than specific thresholds (0.2 mm, 5 mm, 10 mm, 25 mm).