Data and Products of the High Resolution Deterministic Prediction System
The High Resolution Deterministic Prediction System (HRDPS) carries out physics calculations to arrive at deterministic predictions of atmospheric elements from the current day out to 48 hours into the future. Atmospheric elements include temperature, precipitation, cloud cover, wind speed and direction, humidity and others. This product contains raw numerical results of these calculations. Geographical coverage of the system is most of Canada. Data is available over specific areas in the MSC Datamart and the whole coverage is available in the MSC GeoMet web services. Data is available at a horizontal resolution of about 2.5 km up to 31 vertical levels. Predictions are performed up to four times a day.
Access
How to access the data
This data are available on the data server services MSC Datamart and the web services MSC GeoMet respectively:
- GRIB2 data available on the MSC Datamart
- Experimental 1km West GRIB2 data available on the MSC testing data repository DD-Alpha
- Data available via geospatial web services GeoMet-Weather
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 High Resolution Deterministic Prediction System is available on the Open Government Portal.
- The metadata of the Weather Elements on Grid based on the High Resolution Deterministic Prediction System is available on the Open Government Portal.
Technical documentation
- Current version of the High Resolution Deterministic Prediction System
- Technical Note for the continental domain
- Weather elements on the grid (WEonG) technical Note
- Diagram of dependencies for the continental domain
- Canadian Land Data Assimilation System (CaLDAS) technical note
Changelog
The chronology of changes to the High Resolution Deterministic Prediction System (HRDPS) is available here.