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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. 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 grids at a horizontal resolution of 2.5 and 1.0 degrees and for a few selected vertical levels. Predictions and corresponding hindcast are made available monthly.

Access

How to access the data

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

• GRIB2 data available on the MSC Datamart
• Indices in CSV format available on the MSC Datamart
• Data available via geospatial web services

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.

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

• Temperature deterministic forecasts
• Precipitation deterministic forecasts
• Current temperature deterministic forecasts
• Current precipitation deterministic forecasts
• Temperature deterministic forecasts issued at the beginning of the previous month
• Precipitation deterministic forecasts issued at the beginning of the previous month
• Temperature deterministic forecasts issued two months ago
• Precipitation deterministic forecasts issued two months ago

Probabilistic forecasts maps

• Temperature and Precipitation Probabilistic Forecasts

Seasonal forecast

• Skill of the Deterministic Forecast System
• Verification of Past Forecasts
• Climatology of Temperature and Precipitation

Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies, Ice and Snow Cover

• Surface analysis
• Surface analysis - Daily
• Surface analysis - 1-Year animation
• Surface analysis - 30-Day Average
• Surface analysis - 30-Day animation

Technical documentation

• Technical note
• Scientific article

Changelog

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