Climate Metrics (Wahba, G., 1990: Spline Models for Observational Data. CBMS-NSF Regional Conference Series in Applied Mathematics, Vol. 59, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 169 pp.) - 3

Each annual file contains 35 metrics calculated by CANUE staff using base data provided by the Canadian Forest Service of Natural Resources Canada.The base data consist of interpolated daily maximum temperature, minimum temperature and total precipitation for all unique DMTI Spatial Inc. postal code locations in use at any time between 1983 and 2015. These were generated using thin-plate smoothing splines, as implemented in the ANUSPLIN climate modeling software. The earliest applications of thin-plate smoothing splines were described by Wahba and Wendelberger (1980) and Hutchinson and Bischof (1983), but the methodology has been further developed into an operational climate mapping tool at the ANU over the last 20 years. ANUSPLIN has become one of the leading technologies in the development of climate models and maps, and has been applied in North America and many regions around the world. ANUSPLIN is essentially a multidimensional “nonparametric” surface fitting method that has been found particularly well suited to the interpolation of various climate parameters, including daily maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation, and solar radiation.Equations for calculating the included metrics, based on daily minimum and maximum temperature, and total precipitation were developed by Pei-Ling Wang and Dr. Johannes Feddema at the University of Victoria, Geography Department, and implemented by CANUE staff Mahdi Shooshtari.

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Domain / Topic
Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
Environment
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc)
File format of the dataset.
.pdf - application/pdf
Dataset Size
Dataset size in megabytes.
Metadata Identifier
Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
Published Date
Published date of the dataset.
2017-10-01
Time Period Data Span (start date)
Start date of the data in the dataset.
1983-01-01
Time Period Data Span (end date)
End date of time data in the dataset.
2015-12-31
GeoSpatial Area Data Span
A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.
Canada
Field Value
Access category
Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).
visible
Limits on use
Limits on use of data.
These data files are provided solely for the purposes stated in the CANUE Data Sharing and Use Agreement and should not be re-distributed for any reason. These data also contain proprietary postal code data and may only be used for the project named in the CANUE Data Sharing and Use Agreement. Data can be shared only within a project team for the exclusive purposes of teaching, academic research and publishing, and/or planning of educational services in accordance to DMTI End User Agreement associated with the Spatial Mapping Academic Research Tools (SMART) Program.
Location
Location of the dataset.
https://www.canue.ca
Data Service
Data service for accessing a dataset.
Owner
Owner of the dataset.
CANUE (Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium)|Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Contact Point
Who to contact regarding access?
Publisher
Publisher of the dataset.
Publisher Email
Email of the publisher.
Author
Author of the dataset.
CANUE (Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium)|Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Author Email
Email of the author.
info@canue.ca
Accessed At
Date the data and metadata was accessed.
2023-09-18
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Identifier
Unique identifier for the dataset.
25
Language
Language(s) of the dataset
English
Link to dataset description
A URL to an external document describing the dataset.
Persistent Identifier
Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
No
Globally Unique Identifier
Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
No
Contains data about individuals
Does the data hold data about individuals?
N/A
Contains data about identifiable individuals
Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
N/A
Contains Indigenous Data
Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
N/A
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Version
Version of the datatset
Volume 59
Source
Source of the dataset.
https://www.scirp.org/(S(vtj3fa45qm1ean45vvffcz55))/reference/referencespapers.aspx?referenceid=356078
Version notes
Version notes about the dataset.
Is version of another dataset
Link to dataset that it is a version of.
Other versions
Link to datasets that are versions of it.
Provenance Text
Provenance Text of the data.
Provenance URL
Provenance URL of the data.
Temporal resolution
Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
Annually
GeoSpatial resolution in meters
Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
GeoSpatial resolution (in regions)
Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.
Field Value
Indigenous Community Permission
Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
Community Permission
Community permission (who gave permission).
The Indigenous communities the dataset is about
Indigenous communities from which data is derived.
Field Value
Number of data rows
If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
Number of data columns
If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
Number of data cells
If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
Number of data relations
If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
Number of entities
If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
Number of data properties
If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
Data quality
Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
NoData = -9999 (for numeric fields) - NoData=null (for category fields) - Data insufficient to calculate value = -1111
Metric for data quality
A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.

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