British Columbia automated snow weather stations and snow surveys#

databc-stations · theme stations · live

Hourly and daily SWE, snow depth, precipitation, temperature, wind and barometric pressure from the BC automated snow weather station (ASWS) network, plus the manual snow survey (MSS) courses. Station ids are BC location codes (1A01P).

import easysnowdata as esd

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

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

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Sources#

source	provider	credentials	resolution	extent	temporal	latency	notes
`databc` (default)	vector_http	none	—	British Columbia	~1970/present	hours to a day	station geometry from the BC Data Catalogue WFS, observations from the ENV snow data CSVs; no account. The daily snow-depth reading is the 16:00 UTC value

Where each route points#

databc — BC Data Catalogue / BC ENV snow data live: https://openmaps.gov.bc.ca/geo/pub

Variables#

variable	units	dtype	nodata	categorical
`baro`	hPa	float64	—	no
`density`	%	float64	—	no
`precip`	mm	float64	—	no
`rh`	%	float64	—	no
`snow_line`	m	float64	—	no
`snwd`	cm	float64	—	no
`swe`	cm	float64	—	no
`temp`	°C	float64	—	no
`wind_dir`	degrees	float64	—	no
`wind_gust`	km/h	float64	—	no
`wind_run`	km	float64	—	no
`wind_spd`	km/h	float64	—	no

Provenance#

Licence · Open Government Licence – British Columbia

Cite the data as

Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy. Automated Snow Weather Station and Manual Snow Survey data, BC Data Catalogue.

Documentation

Loader · easysnowdata.stations.load

Gallery examples#

British Columbia automated snow weather stations