Thanks to the University of Lethbridge, those interested in learning more about climate trends will now have access to a new tool that will make it a whole lot easier.
An interactive
database that can be accessed online is now up and running. It contains climate records that run from 2010 to as far back as 1950, and cover the whole of the province of Alberta.
The data in the collection was put together by the National Land and Water Information Service, which is a branch of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. The numbers were compiled from weather stations throughout Alberta starting in the mid part of the last century.
This new site allows users to find the data for a specific area by clicking on a map that has been divided into grid of squares. Each square contains the information for a specific parcel of land that is 100 square kilometers at a set latitude and longitude, and there are nearly 7,000 of these cells. A company that provides document scanning services will be able to convert any related original paper documents into a digital form that makes them more accessible to researchers who access the database and who wish to find out more.
In the near future, 43 additional climate variables will be added, and the site will be hosted through the university’s library.
