Snowfall and Snow Depth for Canada 1943-1982

Dataset Identification:

Resource Abstract:
Data include monthly snowfall and end-of-month snow depth for 140 stations across Canada. Stations that maintained at least 20 years of data were chosen. The original data are from Atmospheric Environment Service Canadian Climate Centre and from NOAA's National Climatic Data Center. Data are divided into eight files by region or province: British Columbia (17 stations), Yukon and Northwest Territories (33 stations), Alberta (12 stations), Saskatchewan (115 stations), Manitoba (10 stations), Ontario (19 stations), Quebec (20 stations) and Atlantic Provinces (14 stations). Each data record contains a variable indicator to identify data as snow on the ground on the last day of the month (centimeters) or total snowfall for the month (millimeters). A list of stations, with latitude and longitude to hundredths of a degree, is included in documentation for this data set.
Citation
Title Snowfall and Snow Depth for Canada 1943-1982
publication  Date   1996-01-01
edition Date 1996-01-01
cited responsible party - custodian
individual Name NSIDC User Services
organisation Name  National Snow and Ice Data Center
position Name none
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 1 303 492-6199
Address
National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, 80309-0449 Country USA
electronic Mail Address nsidc@nsidc.org
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://nsidc.org
cited responsible party - custodian
individual Name NOAA User Services
organisation Name  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
position Name none
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 1 303 492-6199 x
Address
National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, 80309-0449 Country USA
electronic Mail Address nsidc@nsidc.org
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://nsidc.org/noaa/
Topic Category:  climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Keywords:
Location keywords:
Continent > North America
Continent > North America > Canada > Alberta
thesaurus name >
Title NASA / GCMD Location Keywords
revision  Date   2008-02-05
Discipline keywords:
EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Precipitation > Snow
EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow Depth > Snowfall
EARTH SCIENCE > Terrestrial Hydrosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow Depth > Snowfall
thesaurus name >
Title NASA / GCMD Science Keywords
revision  Date   2008-02-05
Theme keywords (theme):
Climatology
Global Change
Snow Depth
Snow Fall
purpose:
Scientific Research
Resource language:  eng; usa
Character set encoding of resource:  UTF8
Resource progress code:  complete
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:  asNeeded
update scope:  dataset
update scope:  series
update scope:  attribute
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
Access Constraints  otherRestrictions
use constraint:  otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Access Constraints : none
Other constraints
Use Constraints : none
Resource extent
Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude  -142
eastBoundLongitude  -55
northBoundLatitude  75
southBoundLatitude  45
Temporal Extent
19430101 19821231
Credits:
Walsh, J. E. 1996. Snowfall and Snow Depth for Canada 1943-1982. [indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. http://dx.doi.org/10.7265/N5TD9V75.
point of contact - principalInvestigator
individual Name John E Walsh
organisation Name  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
position Name none
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 1 217 333-7521 x
Address
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801 Country USA
electronic Mail Address walsh@wx.atmos.uiuc.edu
point of contact - pointOfContact
individual Name NSIDC User Services
organisation Name  National Snow and Ice Data Center
position Name none
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 1 303 492-6199 x
Address
CIRES, 449 UCB, Boulder, CO, 80309-0449 Country USA
electronic Mail Address nsidc@nsidc.org
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Resource distribution information

Distributor
distributor contact - custodian
individual Name NSIDC User Services
organisation Name  National Snow and Ice Data Center
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 1 303 492-6199
Address
National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, 80309-0449 Country USA
electronic Mail Address nsidc@nsidc.org
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://nsidc.org
Distributor
distributor contact - custodian
individual Name NOAA User Services
organisation Name  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 1 303 492-6199 x
Address
National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, 80309-0449 Country USA
electronic Mail Address nsidc@nsidc.org
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://nsidc.org/noaa/
Format
Format name 
Format version 
specification > FTP
Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
URL: ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/pub/DATASETS/NOAA/G00922/
link function function
Description Data Access URL
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://nsidc.org/data/docs/noaa/g00922_canada_snowfall_depth/index.html
link function function
Description Documentation URL
Medium of distribution
name  onLine
density Units 
medium Note FTP

Metadata data stamp:  2015-08-13
Metadata contact - pointOfContact
individual Name NSIDC User Services
organisation Name  National Snow and Ice Data Center
position Name none
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 1 303 492-6199 x
Address
CIRES, 449 UCB, Boulder, CO, 80309-0449 Country USA
electronic Mail Address nsidc@nsidc.org
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://nsidc.org
Metadata scope code  dataset
Metadata hierarchy level name:  Snowfall and Snow Depth for Canada 1943-1982
Metadata language  eng; usa
Metadata character set encoding:   UTF8
Metadata standard for this record:  ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata First Edition
standard version:  ISO 19115:2003
Metadata record identifier:  noaa.ncei.nsidc.G00922
URI for dataset described: > http://nsidc.org/data/g00922.html

Metadata record format is ISO19139-2 XML (MI_Metadata)