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2 unusual facts about Environment Canada


Arnold Nogy

These were produced by the Royal Canadian Mint partnered with the Canadian Wildlife Federation and Environment Canada.

PERCS

Major deployments have been for network-intensive and memory-intensive applications (as opposed to FLOPS-intensive), such as weather & climate modeling (ECMWF, UKMO, Environment Canada, Japan Meteorological Agency), and scientific research (University of Warsaw, Slovak Academy of Sciences, and several other government laboratories in the U.S., and other countries).


Arctic Goose Joint Venture

In Canada, the national Canadian Wildlife Service of Environment Canada is a participant, as is the Ministry of Natural Resources agency of the government of Ontario and Manitoba Conservation, a department of the government of Manitoba.

Mount Musgrave

The summit of the mountain hosts Environment Canada's doppler weather radar station "XME", part of the Canadian weather radar network.

Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre

The Centre's Rattlesnake Research Program receives support from Environment Canada to study Western Rattlesnakes and Great Basin Gopher snakes.

Weather radio

(The first option is not available, or at least legal, in Canada, where Environment Canada's forecasts are under crown copyright.) Accuweather (through United Stations) and The Weather Channel (through Dial Global's NBC Radio Network) both operate large national weather radio networks through AM and FM stations.


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