Archive Automated Snow Weather Station Data

The British Columbia Automated Snow Weather Station Network comprises monitoring stations operated by the Ministry of Environment, BC Hydro, Rio Tinto Alcan, the Greater Vancouver Water District and many other partner organizations. There are Automated Snow Weather Stations (ASWS) around the province, mostly in remote and high elevation locations. Station location data are available here. Data is collected hourly and transmitted through the GOES satellites. Near real-time remotely sensed snow and meteorological data from ASWS for the current water year (October 1st to September 30th) are available here. Archived ASWS data include: 1. hourly archived data (snow water equivalent in mm, snow depth in cm, air temperature in degrees Celcius, cumulative precipitation in mm) for all ASWS stations in the province from October 1st 2011 to January 8 2016; and 2. daily archived data (maximum air temperature in degrees Celcius, minimum air temperature in degrees Celcius, precipitation in mm, accumulated precipitation in mm, snow depth in cm and snow water equivalent in mm) for all ASWS stations in the province from date of installation to September 30th 2011 or when the ASWS station was…

Publisher

Government of British Columbia

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9

Catalogue metadata updated

2026-04-17