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The probability of effective growing season degree days above 175 for cool season crops. This condition must be maintained for at least 5 consecutive days in order for EGDD to be accumulated (egdd_cool_175prob). Week 1 and week 2 forecasted probability is available daily from April 1 to October 31. Week 3 and week 4 forecasted probability is available weekly (Thursday) from April 1 to October 31. Cumulative heat-energy satisfies the essential requirement of field crop growth and development towards a high yield and good quality of agricultural crop products. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) have together developed a suite of extreme agrometeorological indices based on four main categories of weather factors: temperature, precipitation, heat, and wind. The extreme weather indices are intended as short-term prediction tools and generated using ECCC’s medium range forecasts to create a weekly index product on a daily and weekly basis.

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Name	Format	Description	Link
Pre-packaged GeoTIF files (No linguistic component)	Unknown		https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/data_donnees/extremeWeatherIndices/data_donnees/tif/heat/
Pre-packaged Maps (English)	PDF		https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/data_donnees/extremeWeatherIndices/maps_cartes/en/heat/
Pre-packaged Maps (French)	PDF		https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/data_donnees/extremeWeatherIndices/maps_cartes/fr/chaleur/
Data Product Specification (English)	PDF		https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/data_donnees/extremeWeatherIndices/supportdocument_documentdesupport/en/ISO_19131_ExtremeWeatherIndices_Heat_-_Data_Product_Specification.pdf
Data Product Specification (French)	PDF		https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/data_donnees/extremeWeatherIndices/supportdocument_documentdesupport/fr/Indices_de_conditions_meteorologiques_extremes_Chaleur_SPC_ISO_19131.pdf

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