Excel · dataset · 2024
Snow Survey measurement locations
Listed in Ontario Open Government Data
This dataset contains location information for 2 of Ontario’s snow monitoring networks:
Description
- Surface Water Monitoring Centre (SWMC)
- Snow Network for Ontario Wildlife (SNOW), administered by the Wildlife Research and Monitoring Section Snow course data is collected by:
- conservation authorities
- Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) districts
- Ontario Power Generation SWMC network data is collected twice a month from November 15 until May 15. SNOW network data is collected once a week from the first snowfall until snowmelt. The Surface Water Monitoring Centre uses the data to assess:
- current snow cover
- frozen ground conditions
- snowpack
- potential snowmelt
- contributions to streamflow MNR’s Science and Research Branch use the data to:
- help manage wildlife species including deer, moose, wild turkey, elk, wolves and coyotes
- help ministry resource managers and scientists administer programs and conduct research
- inform game management decisions such as white-tailed deer harvest quotas
- support flight planning for the Moose Aerial Inventory program
Links
Get the data
- Snow survey measurement locations geohub.lio.gov.on.ca/datasets/93daa564e2b94250a8551b52d92613ac ↗
download · from data ontario ca
- Data Dictionary data.ontario.ca/dataset/7959c804-8fba-45e1-b764-8bdd7f883a13/resource/97fb9f93… ↗
download · from data ontario ca
- Emplacements de mesure du relevé des neiges geohub-fr.lio.gov.on.ca/datasets/e362f2114f3c4a2e825ac8e1fc1a3bb3 ↗
download · from data ontario ca
Where it is published
- Ontario Open Government Data dataset page data.ontario.ca/dataset/snow-survey-measurement-locations ↗
landing page · from data ontario ca
Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.ontario.ca/api/3/action/package_show?id=7959c804-8fba-45e1-b764-8bdd7f883… ↗
metadata API · from data ontario ca
Topics
- From keywords
- Climate · Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science
- Inferred from text
- Hydrology 71%
Provenance · 1 source records, 10 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ontario Open Government Data | 7959c804-8fba-45e1-b764-8bdd7f883a13 | 12 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:3707 | enrichment · data ontario ca | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (71%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data ontario ca | connector:data_ontario_ca@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data ontario ca | connector:data_ontario_ca@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[subject].local:topic:climate | mapping · data ontario ca | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['climate'] |
| created_date | source · data ontario ca | connector:data_ontario_ca@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · data ontario ca | connector:data_ontario_ca@1.0.0 | /notes |
| license_text | source · data ontario ca | connector:data_ontario_ca@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · data ontario ca | connector:data_ontario_ca@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · data ontario ca | connector:data_ontario_ca@1.0.0 | /title |
| updated_date | source · data ontario ca | connector:data_ontario_ca@1.0.0 |