Quebec Climate Monitoring Network with 135 Stations
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Description
Quebec's Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Wildlife and Parks operates a network of 135 climate monitoring stations. The network provides continuous, quality-assessed hourly data on temperature, precipitation, rainfall, snowfall, wind, and weather phenomena. Data feeds are updated twice daily or in real time.
Use Cases
Predicting temperature trends based on hourly surface observations
Analyzing precipitation patterns based on total precipitation, rainfall, and snowfall data
Modeling wind behavior based on wind speed and direction measurements
Detecting weather phenomena based on observational reports
Strengths
135 stations provide a distributed monitoring network across Quebec
Quality assessment is confirmed for the data
Hourly sampling frequency offers high temporal granularity
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
Data is provided in HTML format, which may require parsing for structured analysis
Provenance
Source
Ministère de l’Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs du Québec
Collection Method
Mixed automated and manual observations from a surface and climate monitoring network.
Freshness
Data feed frequency is twice a day or in real time.
Geography
Quebec, Canada
Data is under the OGL-CA-2.0 license, with additional legal constraints referenced via a Quebec government copyright link.