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Icefields captured at 1:1,000,000 scale from Digital Chart of the World data for the Yukon and surrounding area.
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- Non-treed vegetation was split into shrub and non-shrub (herbaceous/lichen) classes, based on the highest fractional proportion
Snow and ice are important hydrological resources. Their minimum spatial extent here referred to as annual minimum snow/ice (MSI) cover, …
The hydrographic features of the CanVec series include watercourses, water linear flow segments, hydrographic obstacles (falls, rapids, etc.), waterbodies (lakes, …
Datasets of daily and monthly snow water equivalent (SWE) over the Northern Hemisphere (excluding Greenland) were constructed using a multi-dataset …
The Annual Minimum Snow and Ice (MSI) Extent of the Atlas of Canada National Scale Data, are data sets compiled …
The MODIS surface albedo dataset was produced by the Canada Center for Remote Sensing (CCRS), Natural Resources Canada. The dataset …
The CanESM2 large ensembles are 50-member perturbed initial condition ensembles from 1950 to 2020, with all historical forcings (historical), solar …
The CanRCM4 large ensemble is a 50-member ensemble from 1950-2100 with all historical forcings for the North American Domain. Each …