Weather Records for the Elora Research Station, Elora, Ontario [Canada]: Meteorological data 2008 to 2012

The University of Guelph, School of Environmental Sciences, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Group, in cooperation with Environment Canada, maintains an automatic weather station at the Elora Research Station located a few kilometres south of Elora, Ontario. This station collects hourly climatic data including air temperature, relative humidity, wind direction and speed at 2m and 10m above ground, solar radiation, longwave radiation, precipitation, snow on ground, snowfall, amount of sunshine, and soil temperature. This data set includes climatic data collected from January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2012, and is presented as monthly data files broken down into five categories: hourly data, 0800 (maximum/minimum values for data collected from 1700 yesterday to 0800 today except soil temperatures which are measured at 0800), 1700 (maximum/minimum values for data collected from 0800 today to 1700 today except soil temperatures which are measured at 1700), 24 hour (data for 24 hour period from 0100 hours), and precipitation (at every minute of occurrence) data. Annual files are also provided for hourly, 0800, 1700, and 24 hour data.