SNIH snow pillows and snow courses (Argentina)#

snih-stations · theme stations · live

Snow-pillow SWE (validated daily to 2023-24, raw telemetry since) and snow-course SWE, depth and density from Argentina’s Sistema Nacional de Información Hídrica. Station codes are SNIH- (SNIH-12817).

import easysnowdata as esd

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

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

snih (default)

stations

none

—

Argentine Andes

1951/present (courses), 1989/present (pillows)

hours (raw telemetry)

the portal’s own JSON page methods; no account. Cite SIPH and/or the network and the date of the last update

Where each route points#

snih — SNIH portal live

https://snih.hidricosargentina.gob.ar

Variables#

variable

units

dtype

nodata

categorical

density

%

float64

—

no

other

—

float64

—

no

snwd

cm

float64

—

no

swe

cm

float64

—

no

Provenance#

Licence · SNIH terms: free use with citation of SIPH and the update date

Cite the data as

Subsecretaría de Recursos Hídricos, Argentina. Sistema Nacional de Información Hídrica, https://snih.hidricosargentina.gob.ar/.

Documentation

Loader · easysnowdata.stations.load