Canadian Homogenized Surface Air Temperatures – Version 3.1 (CanHomT V3.1)

Canadian Homogenized Surface Air Temperature – Version 3.1 (CanHomT V3.1) This dataset is an update of the Third Generation Homogenized Temperature dataset (Vincent et al. (2020), extended through 2023. It was developed for climate trend analysis and includes long-term daily maximum, minimum, and mean temperature series for 780 stations (776 locations) in Canada. The key enhancement in V3.1 is the inclusion of both Original and Adjusted data, together with their associated data flags and the source station climate ID, providing improved traceability, reproducibility, and transparency. Key processing steps include: • Merging observations from nearby sites to create long records • Quality control of data • Adjusting daily minimum temperatures since July 1961 for the observing-time (climatological day definition) change at 96 principal stations (Vincent et al., 2009) • Detecting non-climatic shifts in annual and seasonal average temperature data series using homogeneity tests with reference and station metadata. • Applying Quantile-Matching (QM) adjustments with reference data (including parallel observations) to correct non-climatic changes (Vincent et al., 2018; Wang et al.,…

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Environment and Climate Change Canada

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2026-08-04