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The Canadian Weathership Program collected meteorological data at Station Papa (50N, 145W) in the North Pacific Ocean between 1949 and 1981. In 2014, researchers at the University of Washington (UW) Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) analyzed this historic data to determine its efficacy as a scientific tool. The data available here are the Government of Canada data files that were utilized for this analysis. The "OWSP Full Data (1949-1981)" file contains the entire Canadian Weathership Program record of data collected from Station Papa and the "OWSP Daily Averaged Wind Speed and Wave Height Data (1949-1981)" file contains daily averaged values of wind speed and wave height generated by the UW APL and NOAA PMEL researchers. The Data Dictionary for each data file contains notes on any quality controls that were applied to the data by the UW APL and NOAA PMEL researchers. The UW documents titled, "Data Documentation for Dataset 1170 (DSI-1170), Surface Marine Data, National Climatic Data Center" (https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/bitstream/handle/1773/25570/td1170.pdf?sequence=6&isAllowed=y) and "Table detailing units of data values in each file" (https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/25570), provide further information on the key values, point scales, and other units that were used in these datasets.

Resources

Name	Format	Description	Link
OWSP Daily Averaged Wind Speed and Wave Height Data (1949-1981)	CSV		https://api-proxy.edh-cde.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/561d3400-2e4c-4eb7-a042-f3135ab38224/attachments/DailyAvgPapa_EN.csv
Data Dictionary	PDF		https://api-proxy.edh-cde.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/561d3400-2e4c-4eb7-a042-f3135ab38224/attachments/Data_dictionary_EN_OWSP_1949-1981.pdf
Data Dictionary	PDF		https://api-proxy.edh-cde.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/561d3400-2e4c-4eb7-a042-f3135ab38224/attachments/Data_dictionary_FR_OWSP_1949-1981.pdf
OWSP Daily Averaged Wind Speed and Wave Height Data (1949-1981)	CSV		https://api-proxy.edh-cde.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/561d3400-2e4c-4eb7-a042-f3135ab38224/attachments/MoyQuotidiennesPapa_FR.csv
OWSP Full Data (1949-1981)	CSV		https://api-proxy.edh-cde.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/561d3400-2e4c-4eb7-a042-f3135ab38224/attachments/PapaComplet_FR.csv
OWSP Full Data (1949-1981)	CSV		https://api-proxy.edh-cde.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/561d3400-2e4c-4eb7-a042-f3135ab38224/attachments/PapaFull_EN.csv
References	PDF		https://api-proxy.edh-cde.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/561d3400-2e4c-4eb7-a042-f3135ab38224/attachments/References_EN_FR_OWSP_1949-1981.pdf
Ocean Weather Station Papa (1949-1981)	Ersi REST		https://egisp.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/arcgis/rest/services/open_data_donnees_ouvertes/ocean_weather_station_papa_1949_1981/MapServer
Ocean Weather Station Papa (1949-1981)	Ersi REST		https://egisp.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/arcgis/rest/services/open_data_donnees_ouvertes/ocean_weather_station_papa_1949_1981/MapServer

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