Climate Monitoring Protocol for the North Coast and Cascades Network (Mount Rainier National Park, Olympic National Park, North Cascades National Park, Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, Ebey’s Landing National Historical Reserve, San Juan Island National Historical Park, Fort Vancouver National Historic Site): Volume 1. Narrative and Appendices,Version 5/26/2010
Lofgren RA, Samora B, Baccus B, Christoe B. 2010. Climate Monitoring Protocol for the North Coast and Cascades Network (Mount Rainier National Park, Olympic National Park, North Cascades National Park, Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, Ebey’s Landing National Historical Reserve, San Juan Island National Historical Park, Fort Vancouver National Historic Site): Volume 1. Narrative and Appendices,Version 5/26/2010. Natural Resource Report. NPS/NCCN/NRR—2010/240. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
This protocol narrative outlines the rationale, sampling design and methods proposed for monitoring climate in the North Coast and Cascades Monitoring Network (NCCN). The NCCN, one of 32 networks of parks in the National Park System, comprises seven national park units in the Pacific Northwest, including three large, mountainous, natural area parks (Mount Rainier [MORA] and Olympic [OLYM] National Parks, North Cascades National Park Service Complex [NOCA]) and four small historic-cultural parks (Ebey’s Landing National Historical Reserve [EBLA], Lewis and Clark National Historical Park [LEWI], Fort Vancouver National Historical Park [FOVA], San Juan Island National Historical Park [SAJH]). This narrative reflects decisions made by the NCCN climate monitoring group, which includes National Park Service (NPS) representatives from each of the large parks in the Network and with the assistance of several agencies including National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS).
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Lofgren, Rebecca; Samora, Barbara; Baccus, Bill; Christoe, Bret
- Date of Issue
- 2010-09
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- EBLA , FOVA , IMDP , LEWI , MORA , NOCA , NRSS , OLYM , SAJH
- Keywords
- ASOS, Automated Surface Observation System, Climate, Climate Change, climate monitoring, Climate Reference Network, CRN, Ebey’s Landing National Historical Reserve, Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, Monitoring, Mount Rainier National Park, National Weather Service Cooperative Observer Program, NCCN Monitoring Protocol, North Cascades National Park, Northwest Weather and Avalanche Center, NWAC, NWS-COOP, Olympic National Park, Precipitation, raws, Remote Automated Fire Weather Stations, San Juan Island National Historical Park, snotel, Snowfall, Snowpack, Snowpack Telemetry, Temperature, Weather
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Air and Climate | Weather and Climate | Weather and Climate