Canadian Weather Radar Visibility
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| identifier | urn:wmo:md:ca-eccc-msc:b2634521-33fe-4223-ba63-b4d14779bfe9 |
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| created | 2025-09-15T00:00:00Z |
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| title | Canadian Weather Radar Visibility |
| description | Wind turbines can contaminate weather radar data which can compromise Environment and Climate Change Canada’s (ECCC) ability to provide quality weather forecasts and warnings to Canadians. In support of ECCC’s wind farm and weather radar siting guidelines, weather radar visibility layers were created for 150, 200 and 250 meters above ground level (mAGL) surface heights, which are representative of typical past and present wind turbine heights (base-to-tip or total) as well as potential future turbine heights given the trend. These visibility layers were generated from a viewshed analysis using ECCC’s 32 operational S-Band weather radars as observers and the three abovementioned heights as surface offsets. Within these visibility layers, turbines that are 150, 200 and 250 mAGL tall are likely to be visible to ECCC’s operational weather radars and therefore have the potential to contaminate weather radar data. A polygon layer containing 10 and 60 kilometer radius buffers around each radar denoting the turbine-radar impact zones are also included in this dataset. |
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Radar
id: Weather id: Wind Energy id: Cartography scheme: https://canada.multites.net/cst/EAEAD1E6-7DD2-4997-BE7F-40BFB1CBE8A2/CST20230912.rdf concepts: id: weather scheme: https://codes.wmo.int/wis/topic-hierarchy/earth-system-discipline |
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77 Westmorland Street, suite 260
city: Fredericton administrativeArea: New Brunswick postalCode: E3B 6Z4 country: Canada roles: host organization: Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Meteorological Service of Canada name: National Inquiry Response Team / Équipe nationale de réponse des demandes du public position: National Inquiry Response Team hoursOfService: 0700h - 1500h EST contactInstructions: email phones: value: +18199972800 emails: value: ECWeather-Meteo@ec.gc.ca links: rel: canonical type: text/html href: https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change.html |
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