CEAZA-Met snow stations (Chile)#

ceaza-stations · theme stations · live

Snow depth and, at a few sites, SWE from the CEAZA-Met network in the arid Andes of Atacama and Coquimbo. Station codes are CEAZA- (CEAZA-HDC). CEAZA asks users to register a user name by e-mail; set it in CEAZA_USER.

import easysnowdata as esd

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

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

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Sources#

source

provider

credentials

resolution

extent

temporal

latency

notes

ceaza (default)

stations

none

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Atacama and Coquimbo, Chile

~2011/present (snow)

hours

the CEAZA-Met web service; a registered user name is asked for (CEAZA_USER) and the data credited to CEAZA

Where each route points#

ceaza — CEAZA-Met web service live

https://www.ceazamet.cl/ws/pop_ws.php

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; register a user name and credit CEAZA

Cite the data as

Datos provistos por el laboratorio de meteorología CEAZA, https://www.ceazamet.cl/.

Documentation

Loader · easysnowdata.stations.load