SLF IMIS stations, study plots and GCOS SWE (Switzerland)#

slf-stations · theme stations · live

Snow depth and new snow from the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF: the automatic IMIS stations and the manual study plots, plus the fortnightly GCOS SWE series. Station codes name the dataset, because SLF reuses ids across them: SLF-IMIS-WFJ2, SLF-SP-5WJ0, SLF-GCOS-5WJ.

import easysnowdata as esd

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

inv_gdf = esd.stations.inventory(aoi, networks="slf")
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

slf (default)

stations

none

—

Swiss Alps

study plots from the 1930s-1990s; IMIS from the late 1990s

a day

the SLF file service and EnviDat; no account. Cite SLF (CC BY 4.0; GCOS is ODbL)

Where each route points#

slf — SLF measurement data / EnviDat live

https://measurement-data.slf.ch

Variables#

variable

units

dtype

nodata

categorical

other

—

float64

—

no

snowfall

cm

float64

—

no

snwd

cm

float64

—

no

swe

cm

float64

—

no

temp

°C

float64

—

no

Provenance#

Licence · CC BY 4.0 (IMIS, study plots); ODbL-1.0 (GCOS)

Cite the data as

WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF. IMIS and manual study-plot measurements, https://measurement-data.slf.ch/; GCOS SWE data, EnviDat doi:10.16904/15.

Documentation

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