Norwegian snow pillows and snow-depth stations (NVE HydAPI)#

nve-stations · theme stations · live

Daily and hourly SWE and snow depth from the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate’s hydrological network, through HydAPI. Station ids are NVE’s dotted codes (12.142.0). This is the one network that needs a credential: a free API key in NVE_API_KEY.

import easysnowdata as esd

aoi = (6.0, 60.0, 11.0, 63.0)   # southern Norway

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

Credentials

The default route needs nve; see the credentials page for the setup.

Sources#

source

provider

credentials

resolution

extent

temporal

latency

notes

nve (default)

stations

nve

—

Norway

~1900/present (varies widely by station)

hours

free API key, sent as X-API-Key; request one at https://hydapi.nve.no/. Parameter 2003 is SWE, 2002 snow depth

Where each route points#

nve — NVE HydAPI v1 live

https://hydapi.nve.no/api/v1

Variables#

variable

units

dtype

nodata

categorical

snwd

cm

float64

—

no

swe

cm

float64

—

no

Provenance#

Licence · Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD)

Cite the data as

Norges vassdrags- og energidirektorat (NVE). Hydrological API (HydAPI), https://hydapi.nve.no/.

Documentation

Loader · easysnowdata.stations.load