DRI:
Drought Research Initiative

DRI Legacy

DRI endeavoured to provide tangible outcomes of its 5 year research effort to the broader scientific community and general public. This intention was addressed through focusing on several intiatives during the wind down of the network.

These efforts are listed below:

DRI:
Drought Research Initiative
About the DRI Data Legacy Data/Metadata Portal
EC Prairie Radar Dataset (1999-2005)

Index

Metadata file identifier

  • 8fa8d779-2dae-11de-96d4-00219b106224

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    Language

  • eng

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    Character set

  • utf8

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    Contact
    Individual name

  • William Henson

    • Organisation name

  • Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences McGill University

    • Contact information
    Address
    City

  • Montreal

    • Administrative area

  • Quebec

    • Postal code

  • H3A 2K6

    • Country

  • Canada

    • Electronic mail address

  • william.henson@gmail.com

    • Role

  • user

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    Contact
    Individual name

  • Phillip Harder

    • Contact information
    Online resource
    Linkage

  • harder.phillip@gmail.com

    • Role

  • Processor

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    Metadata date stamp

  • 2011-03-11

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    Metadata standard name

  • ISO 19115

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    Metadata standard version

  • ISO19115:2003/Cor 1 2006

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    Identification Information
    Citation
    Title

  • EC Prairie Radar Dataset (1999-2005)

    • Date
    Date

  • 2011-03-11

    • Date Type

  • revision

    • Abstract

  • This dataset comprises Doppler radar information from 8 radars (Schuler, Carvel, Foxwarren, Jimmy Lake, Radisson, Spirit River, Strathmore, Woodlands) of the Canadian Radar Network that covers the Prairies region. These Doppler radars scan 24 elevations in conventional reflectivity (0.3o to 24.7o) and 4 Doppler elevations (0.3o to 1.5o) every 10 minutes. The data has a 1 km (256 km range) and 0.5 km (113 km range) range resolution for conventional scans and Doppler scans, respectively. More information about the Canadian Doppler radar network can be found at http://www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/projects/nrp. The 1999-2005 period was when many of the radars were coming online therefore data for all stations does not completely span 1999-2005. Data is stored in IRIS a binary

    • Point of contact
    Organisation name

  • Environment Canada

    • Contact information
    Address
    Delivery point

  • 4905 Dufferin Street

    • City

  • Toronto

    • Administrative area

  • Ontario

    • Postal code

  • M3H 5T4

    • Country

  • Canada

    • Role

  • resourceProvider

    • Resource maintenance
    Maintenance and update frequency

  • notPlanned

    • Descriptive keywords
    Keyword

  • RADAR

    • Thesaurus name
    Title

  • GCMD

    • Date
    Date

  • 2007-04-01

    • Date Type

  • Publication

    • Spatial representation type

  • stereoModel

    • Language

  • eng

    • Topic category

  • climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

    • Extent
    Geographic element
    West bound longitude

  • -123.32

    • East bound longitude

  • -94.18

    • South bound latitude

  • 47.85

    • North bound latitude

  • 58

    • Temporal element
    Extent
    Begin
  • Time position:

    1999-03-01T00:00:00

    • End
  • Time position:

    2005-01-15T00:00:00

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    Distribution information
    Distributor
    Distributor contact
    Organisation name

  • DRI Data Legacy

    • Contact information
    Online resource
    Linkage

  • http://www.drinetwork.ca

    • Role

  • Distributor

    • Transfer options
    Transfer size (Mb)

  • 819200

    • On-line resource
    Linkage

  • NCAR EOL Data Services

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