GM-WICS Data References

Station Data

Climate Data
Canadian Climate Normals 1961-1993 and Monthly Averages. Environment Canada.

U.S. Cooperative Summary of the Day, National Climate Data Center (NCDC)

Discharge Data
HYDAT 1998 : Surface Water and Sediment Data.
National CD-ROM Version 98-1.05.8
Atmospheric Environment Program, Environment Canada. 1999
      Data Distributed By:  Greenland International Consulting Inc.
                                           7880 Keele Street, Unit 205
                                           Concord, Ontario, Canada L4K 4G7

USGS Historical NWIS-W Data

USGS Provisional Real Time Water Data

Gridded Data - 2 arc minute grid resolution
Dimensions
North
South
Vertical 3.5 km 3.7 km
Horizontal 2.5 km 2.8 km
Diagonal 4.4 km 4.8 km
Grid Cell Area 8.8 km2 10.4 km2

Climate Data
Canadian Climate Normals 1961-1993 and Monthly Averages. Environment Canada.

U.S. Cooperative Summary of the Day; National Climate Data Center (NCDC)

Elevation Data
Global 30 Arc Second Elevation Data Set (GETOPO30); EROS Data Center

Landuse Data
North America Land Cover Characteristics Database
Based on 1 km AVHRR data (April 1992-March 1993)
EROS Data Center (EDC) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC)

Soils Data
The Digital Soil Map of the World
CD-ROM Version 3.5
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
March 1995

Water Systems Analysis Group Publications

Vorosmarty, C.J., B. Fekete, and B.A. Tucker.  1998.  River Discharge Database,
        Version 1.1 (RivDIS v1.0 supplement).  Available through the Institute
       for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space / University of New
       Hampshire, Durham NH (USA) at http://www.csrc.sr.unh.edu/hydro/.
 

Vorosmarty, C.J., B. Fekete, and B.A. Tucker.  1996.  River Discharge Database,
        Version 1.0 (RivDIS v1.0), Volumes 0 through 6.  A contribution to IHP-V
        Theme 1.  Technical Documents in Hydrology Series.  UNESCO, Paris.
 
 

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