Alberta River Basins snow pillows and snow courses (AEPA)#

alberta-stations · theme stations · live

Daily and sub-hourly SWE and snow depth from Alberta Environment and Protected Areas’ snow pillows on the Rocky Mountain eastern slopes, plus monthly snow surveys, read through the Alberta River Basins site. Station codes are ARB- (ARB-05BB803); the BC Snow Survey and SNOTEL pillows the site mirrors are better read from their own networks.

import easysnowdata as esd

aoi = (-121.94, 46.72, -121.54, 46.99)   # Mount Rainier

inv_gdf = esd.stations.inventory(aoi, networks="alberta")
obs_ds = esd.stations.load(inv_gdf, variables=["swe", "snwd"],
                           time="2023-10/2024-09")

No account needed

Every route to this product is open. Nothing to set up.

Sources#

source

provider

credentials

resolution

extent

temporal

latency

notes

alberta (default)

stations

none

—

Alberta

1984/present (pillows)

hours

the endpoints the site’s own pages call; no documented API and no account. A failed download raises unless allow_partial=True

Where each route points#

alberta — Alberta River Basins (rivers.alberta.ca) live

https://rivers.alberta.ca

Variables#

variable

units

dtype

nodata

categorical

precip

mm

float64

—

no

snwd

cm

float64

—

no

swe

cm

float64

—

no

temp

°C

float64

—

no

Provenance#

Licence · No licence stated (site disclaimer only)

Cite the data as

Alberta Environment and Protected Areas. Alberta River Basins, https://rivers.alberta.ca/.

Documentation

Loader · easysnowdata.stations.load