Water Stewardship Information Sources

Resource Name Provincial Snow Monitoring Program
Unique File Number 167
Information Type Monitoring
Surface Water A
Aquatic Ecosystem A
Groundwater B
Groundwater & Surface Water B
Management for Natural & Industrial Hazards A
Strengths
Limitations
Challenges
Outstanding Research Questions
Outstanding Research Questions
Information Subtype status and trend
Organization Environment Canada and Ministry of Environment
Resource Name Provincial Snowmonitoring Program
Resource Purpose To provide snow pillow information for use in predictions of water supply and flood risk
Type of Information air temperature, precipitation and snow water
How does this help decision making? Information to predict water supply
Program Status Ongoing
NE Coverage Coverage in NE BC
Drinking Water
Ecosystem
Fish
Groundwater
Public Safety
SW Quality
SW Quantity Y
Link http://bcrfc.env.gov.bc.ca/about/index.htm
Text Query http://bcrfc.env.gov.bc.ca/data/
Google Earth
iMap Path Link Air and Climate/Snow… + Air and Climate/Automated Snow Pillow Locations
Spatial Metadata https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/geometadata/metadataDetail.do?recordUID=32670&recordSet=ISO19115
Map http://bcrfc.env.gov.bc.ca/data/asp/realtime/index.htm
Contact Email [email protected]