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The Census of Agriculture is disseminated by Statistics Canada's standard geographic units (boundaries). Since these census units do not reflect …
Minimum Temperature represents the lowest recorded temperature value (°C) at each location for a given time period. Time periods include …
Percent of Average Precipitation represents the accumulation of precipitation for a location, divided by the long term average value. The …
The Versatile Soil Moisture Budget (VSMB) is a soil water budget model that is continuous and deterministic in nature and …
Precipitation Percentiles represents the accumulated precipitation (mm) for the time period compared to historical information for the same time period. …
The Census of Agriculture is disseminated by Statistics Canada's standard geographic units (boundaries). Since these census units do not reflect …
Growing degree days (GDDs) are used to estimate the growth and development of plants and insects during the growing season. …
Crop Heat Units (CHU) are calculated on a daily basis, using the maximum and minimum temperatures in order to account …
Dry spell periods are defined as the number of days (April 1 – October 31) where daily precipitation is less …
The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) is computed similarly to the SPI. The main difference is that SPI assesses precipitation …