{ "title": "Woodfibre meteorology, background air and terrain data catalogue", "verifiedDate": "2026-09-05", "statusDefinitions": { "actually_acquired": "Observation, terrain or forecast values saved locally; acquisition alone does not imply validation.", "metadata_acquired": "Inventory or headers saved; not underlying values", "documented_available": "Primary provider documents access; values not fetched", "access_unverified": "Evidence exists but raw access, period or current operation unresolved", "daily_report_tables_acquired_hourly_series_unavailable": "Dated numeric daily report tables acquired and checked; original hourly logger records unavailable in checked public files." }, "scope": { "centerLonLat": [ -123.22, 49.703 ], "domainKm": [ 20, 20 ], "purpose": "Research prioritization toward validated prediction; no claim current exploratory engine is predictive" }, "datasets": [ { "id": "eccc_surface", "title": "ECCC historical hourly surface weather", "status": "actually_acquired", "dataType": "observation", "verticalType": "surface", "provider": "Environment and Climate Change Canada", "variables": [ "wind speed/direction", "temperature", "humidity", "station pressure", "precipitation", "provider flags" ], "resolution": "Hourly records; sensor heights and individual wind averaging periods require station history review", "coverage": "Squamish Airport plus Pam Rocks / Pemberton sample; additional nearby station inventory acquired", "period": "Airport 1982\u2013present catalogue; full 2025 acquired. Other station dates in stationInventory. Paired sample May 1\u20133 2025. January and June2023 Airport/Pam monthly records additionally acquired and compared with fixed WRF cells.", "access": { "stationApi": "https://api.weather.gc.ca/collections/climate-stations/items", "hourlyApi": "https://api.weather.gc.ca/collections/climate-hourly/items", "documentation": "https://eccc-msc.github.io/open-data/msc-geomet/readme_en/" }, "quality": "Original nulls/flags preserved; inspect each variable rather than treating present rows as complete observations.", "license": "ECCC MSC end-use licence / Open Government Licence \u2013 Canada", "gapClosed": "Observed wind regime timing, weather validation, inflow/outflow context", "limitations": "Airport is not representative of all Howe Sound or plume height; Pemberton pressure and wind come from separate stations.", "localFiles": [ "squamish-airport-hourly-2025.csv", "howe-sound-surface-weather-2025-05-01-to-03.csv", "howe-sound-surface-weather-sample-provenance.json" ], "stationHistoryFollowthrough": { "nominalWindHeightM": 10.0, "nominalDeploymentStart": "2016-04-29", "endDateRecorded": false, "referenceSurfaceSpecified": false, "actualJanuaryJune2023SetupResolved": false, "methods": "woodfibre-wrf-wind-january2023-methods.md" } }, { "id": "bc_verified", "title": "BC verified ambient and meteorological archive", "status": "actually_acquired", "dataType": "observation", "verticalType": "surface", "provider": "BC Ministry of Environment and Parks; network owner varies", "variables": [ "NO", "NO2", "NOx", "O3", "PM2.5", "SO2", "other station-dependent pollutants and meteorology" ], "resolution": "Native hour-ending ambient means: DATE/TIME 24:00 normalizes to next-day DATE_PST 00:00. Exact meteorological averaging intervals and sensor heights require station metadata.", "coverage": "Complete E304570 hourly station records for 2023\u20132025, six pollutants; other stations remain metadata-only here.", "period": "Verified air pollutants through 2025; meteorology through 2024 stated by current catalogue. Station opened date is not proof every parameter exists continuously.", "access": { "catalogue": "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/77eeadf4-0c19-48bf-a47a-fa9eef01f409", "archive": "ftp://ftp.env.gov.bc.ca/pub/outgoing/AIR/AnnualSummary/", "stationMetadata": "ftp://ftp.env.gov.bc.ca/pub/outgoing/AIR/AnnualSummary/2025/bc_air_monitoring_stations.csv" }, "quality": "Provider-verified annual archive; no per-row QA flag supplied. 157,824 native rows, 149,871 numeric, 7,953 NA. No absent timestamps or duplicates. All 432 previous May calendar sample rows exactly reconfirmed. No filling or source attribution.", "license": "Open Government Licence \u2013 British Columbia", "gapClosed": "Three-year station chronology, hourly/daily/monthly observations and independently reproduced current B.C. station objective comparison. Model-background spatial/source representativeness remains unresolved.", "limitations": "One monitor is not a uniform 20\u00d720km background or source-attribution dataset. Current station metadata under annual directories is not historical siting/calibration evidence. Partial-source byte-window hashes do not identify unacquired full provincial files.", "localFiles": [ "squamish-elementary-verified-calendar-days-2025-05-01-to-03.csv", "squamish-elementary-calendar-sample-provenance.json", "woodfibre-observed-air-intervals.csv", "woodfibre-observed-case-findings.md", "woodfibre-observed-case-audit.json", "squamish-elementary-2023-native.csv", "squamish-elementary-2024-native.csv", "squamish-elementary-2025-native.csv", "woodfibre-ambient-baseline-2023-2025-findings.md", "woodfibre-ambient-baseline-2023-2025-results.json", "woodfibre-ambient-baseline-2023-2025-coverage.json" ], "currentSample": { "status": "actually_acquired", "nativeCalendarDays": [ "2025-05-01", "2025-05-02", "2025-05-03" ], "measurementIntervalPst": [ "2025-05-01 00:00", "2025-05-04 00:00" ], "hourEndingTimestampsPst": [ "2025-05-01 01:00", "2025-05-04 00:00" ], "rows": 432, "numericReadings": 417, "originalRowsReconfirmed": 426, "additionalBoundaryRows": 6, "csvSha256": "2c71061e69699ee1a6a557fbaf3b56a049e930017d6e991e0b9a77b749eb1d1f", "primaryTimeConvention": "https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/environment/air-land-water/air/reports-pub/aqhi_network_review.pdf" }, "originalSamplePreserved": { "csv": "squamish-elementary-verified-2025-05-01-to-03.csv", "json": "squamish-elementary-verified-sample.json", "hourEndingTimestampsPst": [ "2025-05-01 00:00", "2025-05-03 23:00" ], "actualMeasurementIntervalPst": [ "2025-04-30 23:00", "2025-05-03 23:00" ], "note": "Original extraction selected normalized DATE_PST end timestamps:includes final hour of30April and omits final hour of3May. 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Sensor heights remain unverified.", "coverage": "Met UTM 481610,5501369 NAD83 zone10N; adjacent AQMS481569,5501374", "period": "June2026 full daily tables acquired; May2025 and January2026 formats also checked; complete raw hourly archive unavailable in checked public files.", "access": { "exampleReport": "https://woodfibrelng.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/WLNG-AQMS-Monthly-Report-2025-05-May-2025_v.01.pdf", "juneReport": "https://woodfibrelng.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/WLNG-AQMS-Monthly-Report-2026-06-June-2026.pdf" }, "quality": "Report says Level0 validation for presented air quality data; request final QA and meteorological flag descriptions.", "license": "Public report; raw-data reuse terms not established", "gapClosed": "Recoverable daily onsite observations are now acquired; they do not close hourly wind, timing, sensor-height or vertical-profile gaps.", "limitations": "Do not digitize wind roses into hourly records. Monthly passive samples cannot resolve a flare episode. Report station coordinates are not flare coordinates.", "localFiles": [ "outputs/woodfibre-onsite-june2026-observations.json", "outputs/woodfibre-onsite-june2026-air.csv", "outputs/woodfibre-onsite-june2026-weather.csv", "outputs/woodfibre-onsite-data-availability.md" ], "acquisition": { "airDailyRows": 30, "weatherDailyRows": 30, "sourceQuality": "Air values Level0; separate met QA level unestablished", "timezoneConfirmed": false, "hourlyWindDirectionsAcquired": false, "sourceReportSha256": "0e1f83192626a227b559b5ae8a38f244e19f1423b521802fed8d03eb2d27626e" }, "dailyStudyUpdate": { "onsiteDailyYear": 2025, "fullYearComparisonComplete": true, "findings": "woodfibre-onsite-town-2025-findings.md", "nativeHourlyMeteorologyAcquired": false, "dailyJune2026Rows": 30 } }, { "id": "squamish_profiler", "title": "Historical Squamish wind profiler / RASS", "status": "published_existence_verified_raw_access_unverified", "dataType": "observation", "verticalType": "upper_air", "provider": "Environment Canada; Vancouver2010 / SNOW-V10 researchers", "variables": [ "horizontal/vertical wind", "RASS virtual temperature", "signal-to-noise and quality diagnostics" ], "resolution": "2006 installation: low-mode winds to about3km; RASS about1.5km. Research averaging varies (15/30min winds, hourly RASS).", "coverage": "Squamish Airport", "period": "Documented Vancouver2010 campaign and later published analysis; current operation and raw archive availability unverified", "access": { "governmentReport": "https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2013/ec/En4-110-1-2013-eng.pdf", "research": "https://doi.org/10.1080/07055900.2016.1233094" }, "quality": "Request original height gates, consensus/SNR filters, missing profiles, calibration and time convention.", "license": "Raw-data licence must be established with custodian", "gapClosed": "Direct local wind shear, return flow and inversion/cold-pool structure", "limitations": "A paper or library PDF record is not an accessible operational profiler feed. Historical episodes cannot establish present profile.", "localFiles": [], "additionalDistinctStudy": { "title": "Mariani et al.2020, Squamish Halo Doppler lidar from May2016", "doi": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12020323", "dataRoute": "Paper page18 says ECCC products via former obrs.ca or upon request; hostname failed DNS at this check.", "rawProfilesAcquired": false, "currentOperationVerified": false, "scopeNote": "Distinct from2010 radar/RASS; later CAWS dataset links forIqaluit/Whitehorse do not establish a Squamish download.", "evidence": "outputs/woodfibre-onsite-data-availability.md" }, "archiveFollowthrough": { "snowV10MembersAudited": 160, "localWindOrRassProfilesRecovered": false, "contents": "surface/scalar observations", "laterInstitutionalSearches": "bounded searches did not recover local measured profiles; no global absence claim", "historicalCampaignsOverlapAcquiredWRF2019To2023": false, "requestStatus": "drafts unsent" } }, { "id": "igra", "title": "NOAA IGRA2.2 radiosonde archive", "status": "station_inventory_acquired_profiles_not_acquired", "dataType": "observation", "verticalType": "upper_air", "provider": "NOAA NCEI; soundings originate national services", "variables": [ "pressure", "temperature", "height", "humidity", "wind direction/speed", "launch elapsed time" ], "resolution": "Sounding levels irregular; nominal synoptic launches, exact station/time availability must be checked", "coverage": "Port Hardy and Quillayute are regional context outside Howe Sound; Vancouver archive ended1996", "period": "Station inventory current to2026; recent1\u20133year files and full-period files documented", "access": { "documentation": "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/weather-balloon/integrated-global-radiosonde-archive", "stationList": "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/igra/igra2-station-list.txt", "recent": "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/igra/data-y2d/" }, "quality": "NCEI removes gross errors; preserve source and level flags. Not homogenized for all instrument/site changes.", "license": "NOAA public access; retain station/provider and IGRA citation", "gapClosed": "Large-scale vertical forcing and independent regional profile checks", "limitations": "Distant stations cannot measure a shallow Squamish inversion or local wind reversal.", "localFiles": [] }, { "id": "hrdps_2p5", "title": "HRDPS 2.5km:one archived operational forecast acquired and compared", "status": "actually_acquired", "dataType": "numerical_forecast", "verticalType": "surface_and_upper_air", "provider": "ECCC", "variables": [ "temperature", "u/v wind", "geopotential height", "humidity", "surface/AGL diagnostics" ], "resolution": "2500m grid; hourly; cycles [0, 6, 12, 18] UTC; lead 48h", "coverage": "Howe Sound lies within Canadian/western domain; terrain smoothed at grid scale", "period": "Acquired cycle2026-09-02T00:00:00Z,leads1\u201324,valid2026-09-02T01:00:00Z through2026-09-03T00:00:00Z. 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This verifies processing, not atmospheric or dispersion prediction.", "license": "ECCC MSC end-use licence", "gapClosed": "First reproducible24-hour operational forecast versus surface-weather comparison, demonstrating station-dependent wind error and source-grid terrain mismatch.", "limitations": "One late-summer forecast cycle,two stations,nearest native grid points,no bias/elevation correction. Exact observation wind averaging intervals unresolved; instant forecast fields are not full-hour means. Woodfibre proxy nearest gridpoint orography568.4m at1.15km distance;985/950hPa are below its model surface. 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Preserve cycle, lead, valid time, model version and GRIB metadata.", "license": "ECCC MSC end-use licence", "gapClosed": "3D meteorological forcing / boundaries and prospective comparison", "limitations": "Rotated-grid winds require coordinate verification; remove below-ground pressure levels. Dense model vertical levels are not the same as publicly distributed pressure levels. Forecast does not equal observed local wind.", "localFiles": [] }, { "id": "hrdps_west_1", "title": "Experimental HRDPS West 1 km: matched six-hour diagnostic acquired", "status": "actually_acquired", "dataType": "numerical_forecast", "verticalType": "surface_and_upper_air", "provider": "ECCC", "variables": [ "temperature", "u/v wind", "geopotential height", "humidity", "surface/AGL diagnostics" ], "resolution": "1000m grid; hourly; cycles [0, 12] UTC; lead 48h", "coverage": "Howe Sound lies within Canadian/western domain; terrain smoothed at grid scale", "period": "Acquired 2026-09-05 00 UTC cycle, leads 1\u20136, compared with the same operational 2.5 km cycle and 12 observed station timestamps. West September 2 first-hour U-wind URL returned HTTP404; DD-Alpha documentation specifies 24-hour retention.", "access": { "liveDirectory": "https://dd.alpha.weather.gc.ca/model_hrdps/west/1km/grib2/00/000/", "example925hPaTemperature": "https://dd.alpha.weather.gc.ca/model_hrdps/west/1km/grib2/00/000/CMC_hrdps_west_TMP_ISBL_0925_rotated_latlon0.009x0.009_20260905T00Z_P000-00.grib2", "episodeManifest": "woodfibre-hrdps-resolution-raw-manifest-2026-09-05.json", "originalListingNote": "Original September5 00UTC inventory retained; exact acquired leads1\u20136 files and hashes are in the new manifest." }, "quality": "Exact listed files acquired and hashed; initialization/validity and units checked. Each model uses its own pole for rotation, with independent WDIR/WIND checks; below-ground levels masked. Processing checks do not establish model suitability.", "license": "ECCC MSC end-use licence", "gapClosed": "Actual finer-grid terrain and matched local forecast comparison. Woodfibre proxy nearest point improves from 1.15 km/568.4 m to 170 m/135 m, while remaining elevated above the shoreline.", "limitations": "Experimental model differs in configuration as well as resolution. Six same hours show worse airport errors and slightly smaller but still large Pam Rocks errors. No onsite measured weather, no accepted source forcing, no general skill ranking or downscaling. 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Native137model levels via separate access.", "coverage": "Global; far coarser than Howe Sound", "period": "1940\u2013present; preliminary ERA5T about5days behind real time, final about2\u20133months later", "access": { "officialOverview": "https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/datasets/era5-hourly-data-pressure-levels-1940-present", "data": "https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/reanalysis-era5-pressure-levels" }, "quality": "Reanalysis assimilates observations but remains a model estimate. Account for changing observations and provisional updates.", "license": "Copernicus licence; CDS account/API and acceptance may be required", "gapClosed": "Long historical forcing when event-specific local NWP archive is unavailable", "limitations": "Cannot resolve valley flow/inversion by simply sampling one grid cell. 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