Climate Stations - Sep.2018

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Abstract

Combined Environmental Canada Climate Station and BC Wildfire Weather Station locations for Northwest BC. Full datasets are available on DataBC.

Publication Date

Sept. 5, 2018, 6:32 p.m.

Type

Vector Data

Keywords

Category

Climatology

processes and phenomena of the atmosphere. Examples: cloud cover, weather, climate, atmospheric conditions, climate change, precipitation

Regions

Northwest BC

Responsible

SKT

More info: -

Maintenance Frequency: Data Is Updated Every Year
Language: English
Data Quality: Created by EGIS on 2018-09-05 from layers published by the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development - GeoBC/BC Wildfire Service.
Supplemental Information: No information provided
Spatial Representation Type: vector data is used to represent geographic data

Layer WMS GetCapabilities document

Attribute Name	Label	Description
STATION_TY		Source dataset (BC Climate Station or BC Wildfire Weather Station)
CUST_ORG	CUSTODIAN_ORG_DESCRIPTION	CUSTODIAN_ORG_DESCRIPTION contains the name or description of the custodial organization (usually Ministry and Branch)
STN_NAME	CLIMATE_STATION_NAME	CLIMATE_STATION_NAME is the name of climate observation station, e.g., BOB QUINN AGS.
DESCRIPTN	DESCRIPTION	DESCRIPTION describes the Occupant in more detail. e.g., Environment Canada Climate Station
LOCALITY	LOCALITY	LOCALITY is the name of the municipality, community, Federal Indian Reserve (IR), subdivision, regional district, indigenous land or natural feature the occupant site is located in, e.g., Victoria, Saanich IR 1, Capital Regional District.
LATITUDE	LATITUDE	LATITUDE is the geographic coordinate, in decimal degrees (dd.dddddd), of the location of the feature as measured from the equator, e.g., 55.323653
LONGITUDE	LONGITUDE	LONGITUDE is the geographic coordinate, in decimal degrees (-ddd.dddddd), of the location of the feature as measured from the prime meridian, e.g., -123.093544
ELEVATION	ELEVATION	ELEVATION is a measure of the observing location's height above sea level, in metres, e.g., 120.000
ACTV_STN	ACTIVE_ENVCAN_WEATHER_STN_IND	ACTIVE ENVCAN WEATHER STN IND indicates if a station is actively recording weather and the data is being processed by Environment Canada or the BC Wildfire Service, i.e., Y, N, Null (unknown)
START_YEAR	START_YEAR	START_YEAR is the year in which the station began recording climate data. Where START_YEAR is Null, this information is unknown, e.g., 1994.
END_YEAR	END_YEAR	END_YEAR is the year in which the station stopped recording climate data. Where START_YEAR is not Null, if END_YEAR is Null, the station is active. Where START_YEAR and END_YEAR are both Null, this information is unknown.
DT_UPDATE	DATE_UPDATED	DATE_UPDATED contains the date that the Occupant data was updated in the Occupant structure (system-generated) - BC Climate Stations only
CLIMATE_ID	CLIMATE_ID	CLIMATE_ID is a unique identifier assigned by the Meteorological Service of Canada to the climate station, e.g., 1200R0J. - BC Climate Stations only
WEBSITE	WEBSITE_URL	WEBSITE_URL contains the link to the Home page of the Occupant's Website - BC Climate Stations only
TC_ID	TC_ID	TC_ID is an optional station identification code assigned by Transport Canada to identify meteorological reports from airport observing sites, e.g., BW4. - BC Climate Stations only
WMO_ID	WMO_ID	WMO_ID is a 5-digit international identifier assigned by the Meteorological Service of Canada to standards of the World Meteorological Organization for stations that transmit observations in international meteorological formats in real time, e.g., 71104.
SEQ_ID	SEQUENCE_ID	SEQUENCE_ID contains a value to distinguish occupant instances. Where a single occupant can have multiple instances (representing different services, for example)
WTHR_STTNS	WEATHER_STATIONS_ID	WEATHER STATION ID is a system generated unique identifier number - BC Wildfire Service only
STTN_CD	STATION_CODE	STATION_CODE is the internal unique number assigned to this weather station, e.g., 67 - BC Wildfire Service only
INSTLL_DT	INSTALL_DATE	INSTALL_DATE is the date when the weather station was physically installed - BC Wildfire Service only
STTN_ACRON	STATION_ACRONYM	STATION_ACRONYM is a 4 character airport code for the closest airport to the station. This is used for weather forecasting software. This is not populated for all weather stations. The leading "C" may be dropped from most of the values, e.g.,CYYJ

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