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Extreme weather indices - Wind. |
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Extreme weather indices - Wind. |
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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Government of Canada |
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["ArcGIS Server","Data","Image Service","Service"] |
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Agriculture is an important primary production sector in Canada. Agricultural production, profitability, sustainability and food security depend on many agrometeorological factors. Extreme weather events in Canada, such as drought, floods, heat waves, frosts and high intensity storms, have the ability to significantly impact field crop production. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) have together developed a suite of extreme agrometeorological indices based on four main categories of weather factors: temperature, precipitation, heat, and wind. The extreme weather indices are intended as short-term prediction tools and generated using ECCC's medium range forecasts to create a weekly index product on a daily basis. Winds can significantly influence crop growth and yield mainly due to mechanical damage of plant vegetative and reproductive organs, an imbalance of plant-soil-atmosphere water relationships such as evapotranspiration, and pest and disease distributions in agricultural fields. The maximum wind speed and the number of strong wind days over the forecast period represent short term and extended strong wind events respectively. For more information, visit: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/c5569a81-2942-4ac4-8eaa-9a9d731b4c79 |
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© Government of Canada (2025). Data are subject to the Government of Canada Open Data Licence Agreement: https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada. The terms of this Agreement govern your use and reproduction of the data instead of the copyright reproduction statements found in Important Notices on the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada website. |
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Extreme weather indices - Wind |
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Image Service |
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https://agriculture.canada.ca/imagery-images/extreme_weather_indices/wind/ImageServer |
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["Climatology","Meteorology","Atmosphere","Farming"] |
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en-CA |
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wind |
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5.91657527591555E8 |
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WGS_1984_Web_Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere |