GIS Resources

Climate and Weather Data

Alberta

• Current and Historical Alberta Weather Station Viewer
• Agriculture Climate Information Services (ACIS)
• Alberta Climate Records  from the University of Lethbridge, allows you to visualize and export climate data 1950-2010 by 10km cells
• Calgary Historic Rainfall data  1988 - present, various rain gauges throughout the City

Canada

• Climate data from Environment Canada
• Canadian Climate Normals & Averages 1961 - 2010
• Annual 30-year Average Number of Days with minimum daily temperature above 20°C (see other datasets at bottom of page)
• Canadian Gridded Temperature and Precipitation Anomalies
• Canada in a Changing Climate: Regional Perspectives Report: Prairie Provinces
• Climate Atlas of Canada, a collaboration between the University of Winnipeg and the International Institute for Sustainable Development; interactive website includes climate data, geovisualizations, and multimedia
• Canadian Wind Energy Atlas
• Canadian Disaster Database
• Climate Data for a Resilient Canada (Climatedata.ca), supported by the Canadian Centre for Climate Services (CCCS) of Environment and Climate Change Canada
• National Ecological Framework
  • see GIS data for boundary files, join with attribute data from data tables
• Northern Tornadoes Project, a partnership between Western University, ImpactWx and Environment and Climate Change Canada that aims to better detect tornado occurrence throughout Canada, improve severe and extreme weather prediction, mitigate against damage to people and property and investigate future implications due to climate change.
• Pan-Canadian Wind Integration Study (PCWIS) - completed in 2016, assessed the operational and economic implications of integrating large amounts of wind energy into the Canadian electricity system.
• Yukon and White Pass Route Weather Data sets  1902-1957, weather and river observations

USA

• NOAA Climate Data Online
• NOAA Climate.gov Maps and Data

International

• Global Registry of Fossil Fuels datasets and downloads
• Global Wind Atlas web application developed to help identify potential high-wind areas for wind power generation
• SUBAK Data Catalogue - A collection of climate and energy data resources
• Wind Resource Database (WRDB) - a collection of modeled wind resource estimates for the United States and various countries around the globe of various lengths up to over 20 years.
• Windytv worldwide animated weather map
• WorldClim set of global climate layers (gridded climate data), 1km resolution
• World Meteorological Organization