Program directory · Environment and Climate Change Canada

Weather and Environmental Observations, Forecasts and Warnings

Department

Environment and Climate Change Canada

Program code

BGU01 (EC)

Core responsibility

Predicting Weather and Environmental Conditions

In Departmental Plans

2018-19 – 2025-26 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

The objective of this Program is to provide authoritative weather and related environmental information to enable Canadians to make decisions about their health and safety. The Program provides tailored weather services to Environment and Climate Change Canada clients (including other federal departments and weather-sensitive economic sectors, such as aviation and marine) and exchanges weather data and modelling approaches with other countries. A comprehensive array of activities includes monitoring, prediction, outreach and consultation with partners and clients, and science and technology research to support innovation. Through collaboration with international meteorological service providers, other federal departments, provincial and territorial governments and local health authorities, academia and the private sector, the Program delivers weather forecasts, severe weather warnings and watches, information on local weather quality (through the Air Quality Health Index), as well as marine forecasts, and ice information and warnings.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Employees (FTEs)

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.