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Data of the hurricane trajectories
This page describes the data of the hurricane trajectories available on the MSC Datamart in GeoJSON format when storms of tropical origin threatens or risks to threaten Canadian territory.
Hurricane tracks in the Atlantic region, from the NOAA National Hurricane Center are republished by the Canadian Hurricane Centre and are also available in GeoJSON format.
Data location
MSC Datamart data can be automatically retrieved with the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) as soon as they become available. An overview and examples to access and use the Meteorological Service of Canada's open data is also available.
The data is available via the HTTPS protocol. It is possible to access it with a standard browser. In this case, we obtain a list of links giving access to GeoJSON files.
Data can be found on the MSC Datamart at this address:
File name nomenclature
File naming convention is:
{YYYYMMDD}T{HHmm}Z_MSC_Hurricane_{NAME}.json
Where :
- YYYYMMDD : Year, month and day of data transmission
- T: Time delimiter according to ISO8601 standards
- HHmm : Hour and minute of data transmission
- Z: Time zone (UTC hour)
- MSC: Constant character string for Meteorological Service of Canada, the data source
- Hurricane : Constant string indicating the name of the product contained in the files, i.e. hurricane trajectories
- NAME : Constant string indicating the name of the hurricane
- json: Constant string indicating that the format is GeoJSON
Ex: 20240708T2100Z_MSC_Hurricane_BERYL.json
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