Clearweather.ca Data Sources

Real time radar, weather and hydrometric stations data

All weather data are downloaded from the Meterological service of Canada (MSC)
under these licenses or usage policies:
https://eccc-msc.github.io/open-data/licence/readme_en/
https://eccc-msc.github.io/open-data/usage-policy/readme_en/

The data were collected by MSC or provided to MSC by various agencies as listed below.



weather radar composite imagery - composite data from one or more radars, including US radars
     Meteorological Service of Canada, EC, Government of Canada
     MSC National composite radar from the MSC-geomet Web Map Service (WMS) 

weather radar images centred on each radar
     Meteorological Service of Canada, EC, Government of Canada
     Radar gif images at MSC datamart radar gifs 

long range GDPS model data 
     Meteorological Service of Canada, EC, Government of Canada
     MSC GDPS model netcdf raster data from the MSC-geomet Web Coverage Service (WCS)

10 minute satellite imagery - nominally "1km resolution" which degrades towards northern Canada
     United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_Operational_Environmental_Satellite
     (via MSC data servers)

Weather station observations 
     All surface weather observations from national, provincial, 
     regional governments and Nav Canada are downloaded from 
     MSC datamart  https://dd.weather.gc.ca/ or an equivalent mirror site

     The stations are grouped by station type (eg. CAAUT8) as given in the station meta data. 

     Canada 
         CAAUT8/CAAUTM :  Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada
         CABUOY : Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), in support of Ocean Protection Plan.
         CALHGT : Government of Canada: Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Canadian Coast Guard
         DNDAUT/NDMANN : Department of National Defense, Government of Canada, https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence.html 

     Nav Canada: 
         CAMAUTO, CAMANN : Nav Canada, 151 Slater St., Suite 120, Ottawa, ON   service@navcanada.ca



     British Columbia
         BCAIRQ : Government of British Columbia, Ministry of Environment
         BCSNOW : Government of British Columbia, Ministry of Environment
         BCFFOR : Government of British Columbia, Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, BC Wildfire Service 
         BCHWYS : Government of British Columbia, Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure

     Alberta
         ABAUT8 : Alberta government, observations similar to CAAUT8

     Saskatchewan
         SKFFOR : Government of Saskatchewan, Public Safety Agency

     Manitoba
         -

     Ontario
         ONFFOR : Ontario Ministry of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry, Aviation, Forest Fire and Emergency Services Branch
         ONHWYS :  Government of Ontario, Ministry of Transportation
         ONGRCA : Grand River Conservation Authority
         ONTRCA : Toronto and Region Conservation Authority

     Quebec
         QCPOML : Port of Montreal


     New Brunswick (may be available in the future)
         NBFFOR : Government of New Brunswick, Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development

 
     Nova Scotia
         NSFFOR : Government of Nova Scotia, Department of Lands and Forestry

     Newfoundland and Labrador
         NLWATR : Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Environment, Climate Change, and Municipalities, Water Resources Management Division 


     Yukon 
         YTFFOR : Government of Yukon, Department of Community Services, Wildland Fire Management 
         YTWATR : Government of Yukon, Department of Environment, Water Resources Branch
         YTAVAL : YAA, Yukon Avalanche Association


     Northwest Territories
         NTFFOR : Government of Northwest Territories, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Forest Management Division
         NTWATR : Government of Northwest Territories, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Forest Resources Division

     Nunavut
         -
 

Hydrometric station observations
     To quote the MSC github page below: "Hydrometric  data are ... are collected, interpreted 
     and disseminated by the National Hydrological Services (NHS) in partnership with the 
     provinces, territories and other agencies through the National Hydrometric Program."

     All observations from hydrometric stations are downloaded from 
     MSC datamart  https://dd.weather.gc.ca
     Also see https://eccc-msc.github.io/open-data/msc-data/obs_hydrometric/readme_hydrometric_en/

Meta data sources and other resources

Basemaps and meta data

    Basemap GIS data were provided by Google Maps (satellite hybrid and terrain hybrid map tile data)


Long range model 500mb colour scheme
    Universite du Quebec a Montreal at httpd://meteocentre.com


All software programs used for this website are open source and free to download and use

    QGIS, imagemagick, netpbm, cs2cs/proj were invaluable for generating basemaps and overlay images

    Linux is awesome, what can I say?

https://www.qgis.org
https://www.imagemagick.org
https://netpbm.sourceforge.net
https://proj.org/about.html


Online help

    w3schools.com is a very well organised and written resource for 
    learning html, css and javascript and how they work together.