Monday, March 20, 2006

Frost-free days and temperatures

Question

I have a master's student looking for the following information, does anyone know where I might find this?

"I am looking for either frost free days or growing degree days data for each census division in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Is this data readily available? If this is not readily available, is it easy to obtain the daily max and min temperatures for April, May, June, and July for these geographic regions?"

Answers

1. I'm not sure if the data is presented at the CD levels, but for Alberta see the following:
http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/sag6278

2. You can get the climate normals data (which include the kind of information the student is looking for) from
http://www.climate.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/climate_normals/index_e.html

The data are arranged by province and weather station, so the student will have to hope there is one in each CD; if more than one, pick the one most representative. Some of the stations don't have all the available data elements, but with luck the student
should be able to get what he/she wants from here.

3. http://sis.agr.gc.ca/cansis/nsdb/ecostrat/district/climate.html

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