Live
Actively powering current features.
Central Source Registry
Sources used across NightBreath
This page consolidates every scientific reference and live data feed used across the platform, and shows exactly where each source appears.
Reference
Scientific or methodology grounding.
Planned
Roadmap source not yet fully integrated.
Evidence Governance
How NightBreath treats data responsibility
This is not a black-box score feed. NightBreath frames evidence as decision support, requiring transparent uncertainty communication and equity review before policy or operational action.
Transparency
Every operational recommendation should surface source freshness, missing fields, and confidence caveats.
Two-Eyed validation
Data interpretation is expected to be reviewed with place-based community knowledge before high-impact decisions.
Equity checks
Deployment decisions should be audited for who benefits first, who bears cost, and who remains excluded.
Systems trade-offs
Cooling actions are reviewed alongside housing pressure, energy demand, and biodiversity implications.
Scientific Evidence
Peer-reviewed and institutional evidence used to frame risk, mortality timing, and heat-justice rationale.
Environmental Research Letters
ReferenceZhao et al. 2014
Global evidence that nighttime warming is outpacing daytime warming in many urbanized regions.
Used in
Epidemiology
ReferenceMurage et al. 2017
Heat-related mortality burden concentrates in overnight and early morning windows.
Used in
Nature Climate Change
ReferenceHeaviside et al. 2017
Urban heat island amplification contributes materially to excess heat mortality.
Used in
Nature Climate Change
ReferenceMora et al. 2017
Deadly heat thresholds emerge when high temperature and humidity persist without nighttime recovery.
Used in
NASA JPL
ReferenceNASA ECOSTRESS Nighttime Thermal
Thermal remote sensing confirms strong intra-urban nighttime temperature contrast.
Used in
City of Toronto
ReferenceToronto Open Data
Neighborhood, canopy, housing, and demographic fields informed mock-data structure and ranges.
Used in
Live and Operational Data
APIs and satellite feeds powering live pulse, signals, and map layers, including planned expansion items.
Open-Meteo
LiveCurrent weather, humidity, and wind overlays
Feeds thermal stress layers and is already aligned with your pulse scoring model.
Used in
- Pulse
Real-time weather inputs for thermal stress scoring across Canada.
- Night Signals
Historical daily and hourly temperature reconstruction.
- Map
Wind vectors and hot-wind overlays.
ECCC GeoMet
PlannedCanadian weather alerts, radar, and forecast grids
Adds official Environment and Climate Change Canada alert polygons to map risk context.
Used in
- Map
Planned integration for official Environment Canada alert polygons.
Open-Meteo Air Quality
LiveModeled PM2.5, ozone, and AQI overlays
Provides keyless air-quality diagnostics that are reliable for live demos and production health checks.
Used in
- Pulse
AQI, PM2.5, PM10, ozone, and NO2 signals for city risk ranking.
NASA EONET
LiveLive natural hazards and event footprints
Adds NASA-curated hazard context (wildfires, severe storms, heat-related events) that can be layered over local vulnerability maps.
Used in
- Night Signals
Global climate event stream used in the live hazard ticker.
- Map
Regional hazard context layer for local heat analysis.
NASA POWER
PlannedHourly satellite-derived temperature, humidity, and wind
Improves model explainability by adding physically grounded climate reanalysis signals for heat and wind calibration.
Used in
- Night Signals
Monthly, daily, and climatology series for trend and moisture diagnostics.
- Map
Operational sample for live wind/temperature context.
Toronto Open Data
PlannedCooling centres, tree canopy, and vulnerable facility layers
Portal datasets are exposed through CKAN action endpoints, letting you add city assets directly into intervention planning.
Used in
- Map
Cooling spaces and shelter service operational overlays.
Statistics Canada WDS
PlannedCensus socioeconomic indicators for equity overlays
Strengthens justice scoring with official demographic and deprivation measures, with documented request-rate limits.
Used in
NASA EOSDIS GIBS
LiveNASA GIBS WMTS
Satellite layer capabilities that power Night Signals map overlays.
Used in
- Night Signals
NASA layer stack used for nighttime temperature and vegetation context.
NASA CMR
LiveNASA CMR Granules (MOD11A1)
Metadata feed used to validate ingestion freshness for thermal products.
Used in
- Sources
Centralized evidence panel for recent MODIS thermal granule updates.
NASA SEDAC
ReferenceNASA SEDAC Urban Heat Island Collection
Methodology reference for urban heat and justice framing in the Night Signals model.
Used in
- Night Signals
Methodology context for heat inequity interpretation.
Methodology and Ranking Inputs
Reference datasets used for scope, ranking boundaries, and interpretation context.
Statistics Canada
ReferenceTop 10 by population centre rank
Statistics Canada Table 98-10-0011-01 and 2026 population-centre ranking references
Used in
- Pulse
Defines the top-10 population-centre monitoring frame.
NASA CMR Evidence
MOD11A1 Granule Metadata
Confirms fresh ingestion cadence for MODIS land surface temperature products powering our GIBS overlays.
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MOD11A1.A2026115.h04v09.061.2026116093240
Updated 2026-04-26T13:33:50.218Z
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MOD11A1.A2026115.h00v10.061.2026116093241
Updated 2026-04-26T13:33:50.271Z
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MOD11A1.A2026115.h03v06.061.2026116093243
Updated 2026-04-26T13:34:50.546Z
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MOD11A1.A2026115.h03v07.061.2026116093243
Updated 2026-04-26T13:34:50.541Z
Scientific Note
Satellite LST is not identical to near-surface air temperature, but it is an essential spatial proxy for nighttime heat retention and canopy inequity. NightBreath pairs LST context with air-temperature histories from NASA POWER and Open-Meteo.