Legacy paper charts (15,000+ station-years) are being digitized. The Manual sets standards for historical data rescue, including uncertainty attribution for pre-digital measurements.
British Columbia’s diverse geography—ranging from coastal rainforests to semi-arid plateaus—presents a unique challenge for water monitoring. Operational hydrology is the "boots on the ground" science of collecting data to understand how these environments respond to precipitation, snowmelt, and human activity. manual of operational hydrology in british columbia