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Data and Products of the Canadian Seasonal to Inter-annual Prediction System (CanSIPS)

The Canadian Seasonal to Inter-annual Prediction System (CanSIPS) carries out physics calculations to arrive at probabilistic predictions of atmospheric elements from the beginning of a month out to up to 12 months into the future, resulting in seasonal forecasts. Atmospheric elements include temperature, precipitation, wind speed and direction and others. This product contains raw numerical results of these calculations. Geographical coverage is global. Data is available on a grid at a horizontal resolution of 2.5 degrees and 1 degree and for a few selected vertical levels. In addition, forecast probabilities for below, near, and above normal temperature and precipitation are available at both resolutions. Predictions and corresponding hindcast are made available monthly.

Access

How to access the data

This data is available on the MSC GeoMet web service as well as MSC Datamart data server service:

An overview and examples to access and use the Meteorological Service of Canada's open data is available.

Licence

The end-user licence for Environment and Climate Change Canada's data servers specifies the conditions of use of this data.

MSC Open Data Service Usage Policy

The MSC Open Data Service Usage Policy determines what constitutes an acceptable use of MSC Open Data services and provides users best practices for optimal use.

Metadata

The metadata of the Canadian Seasonal to Inter-annual Prediction System are available on the Open Government Portal.

Products

List and links to the products available for this dataset :

Deterministic forecast maps

Probabilistic forecasts maps

Seasonal forecast

Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies, Ice and Snow Cover

Technical documentation

Changelog

The chronology of changes to the Canadian Seasonal to Inter-annual Prediction System (CanSIPS) is available here.