Data and Products of the Regional Air Quality Deterministic Prediction System FireWork
The Regional Air Quality Deterministic Prediction System FireWork (RAQDPS-FW) carries out physics and chemistry calculations, including emissions from active wildfires, to arrive at deterministic predictions of chemical species concentration of interest to air quality, such as fine particulate matter PM2.5 (2.5 micrometers in diameter or less). Geographical coverage is Canada and the United States. Data is available at a horizontal resolution of 10 km. While the system encompasses more than 80 vertical levels, data is available only for the surface level and the total column. The products are presented as historical, annual or monthly, averages which highlight long-term trends in cumulative effects on the environment.
Access
How to access the data
This data is available from the MSC GeoMet API / web services and the MSC Datamart data server:
- Data available via the GeoMet-Weather geospatial web services
- GRIB2 data available on the MSC Datamart
An overview and examples to access and use the Meteorological Service of Canada's open data is available. Example of a web map configured to display the RAQDPS-FW.EATM_PM2.5-DIFF layer served by MSC GeoMet:
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
Upcoming.
Products
Technical documentation
Changelog
The chronology of changes to operational systems is available in the changelog.