Inventories
Climate Inventory
The primary objective of the first climate inventory was to compile baseline climate data useful to NPS biologists, hydrologists, and resource managers. The inventory integrated data from more than 6,000 precipitation stations and 4,000 temperature stations across the conterminous United States to develop maps with relevant climate variables. The inventory produced both GIS-based and tabular products and these are now available for most NPS units. Data in the climate atlas can be downloaded from the original Natural Resource FTP site at: http://science.nature.nps.gov/nrftp by selecting "All NPS Units" in the Pick Park(s) field, selecting Climate from the Area Category list, and clicking on "'Area Data."
NPClime - Climate data for the NPS
The goal of the NPClime project is to (1) provide information on real-time weather, historical climate patterns, and climate-station metadata for any NPS unit to NPS staff, citizens, and scientists from a single, easy-to-use Internet portal, and (2) have the climate information system be widely recognized and respected as a model enterprise-level information system that seamlessly accesses information from many sources, that provides data interpretations and raw data that are valuable to casual visitors and sophisticated analysts, and that is intelligently designed to minimize the need for manual revision and maintenance. Download a fact sheet on the overall climate project.
NPClime currently has three phases. The first phase was to inventory existing resources and climate recording stations. Climate Station Inventory Reports for all 32 I&M Vital Signs networks have been completed and they can be downloaded from http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/nps/reports.php. You can also access the climate station inventory report for the Klamath Network by clicking on the link below.KLMN Climate Station Inventory Reports
Phase 2 is focused on accessing and evaluating existing climate data and sources, primarily in collaboration with WRCC and leveraging the Applied Climate Information System (ACIS). We are now deeply into Phase 2.
Phase 3 is to evaluate and address longer-term needs for things like QA/QC, data management, archiving, and a sustainable structure for data management and provision.
The following diagrams show the yearly patterns of precipitation and temperature at each of the Klamath Network parks.
