Petersburg National Battlefield and Richmond National Battlefield Park: Weather of 2007
Knight P, Wisniewski T, Bahrmann C, Miller S. 2010. Petersburg National Battlefield and Richmond National Battlefield Park: Weather of 2007. Natural Resource Data Series. NPS/MIDN/NRDS—2010/051. Natural Resource Program Center. Fort Collins, Colorado
The purpose of this report is to provide a concise climate summary for 2007 at Petersburg NB and Richmond NBP, as part of the Mid-Atlantic Network's Weather and Climate Monitoring Program. Specifically it contains summaries for weather, temperature, and precipitation and descriptions of observing stations, stream flow, and draught status. The purpose of this report is to provide a concise climate summary for January 1–December 31, 2007, and to place current patterns and trends in an appropriate historical, regional, and global context (Knight et al., in preparation). It is our intention that this report will satisfy an inherent interest in meteorological phenomena and meet the Mid-Atlantic Network (MIDN) Weather and Climate Monitoring objectives: To document long-term trends in weather and climate through seasonal and annual summaries of selected parameters (e.g., multiple forms of precipitation, temperature); to identify and document extremes and averages of climatic conditions for common parameters (e.g., precipitation, air temperature), and other parameters where sufficient data are available (e.g., wind speed and direction, solar radiation); and to provide information on near real-time weather parameters, historical climate patterns, and climate station metadata from a single, easy to use Internet portal. To accomplish these objectives a variety of atmospheric data streams were evaluated for their quality, longevity, and applicability to the MIDN parks. Since no single weather observing network contains all the pertinent measures of atmospheric phenomena to assess ecosystem health, an objective analysis of the data networks was developed. Through this analysis, a select number of stations were chosen as representative of each park and these are the primary data sources used in the profile of 2007’s climate summary and trends.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Knight, Paul; Wisniewski, Tiffany; Bahrmann, Chad; Miller, Sonya
- Date of Issue
- 2010-05
- Publisher
- Natural Resource Program Center
- Units
- MIDN , NRSS , PETE , RICH
- Keywords
- Climate, Monitoring, Weather, Weather Monitor
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Air and Climate | Weather and Climate | Weather and Climate