Natural Resource Inventory and Monitoring, Climate Inventory
Natural Resource Inventory and Monitoring, Climate Inventory.
One of the 12 natural resource inventories, the primary objective of the Climate Inventory is to obtain park-relevant baseline climate data useful to NPS biologists, hydrologists and resource managers. Information on climate has been compiled via the inventories of climate observations stations relevant to parks; the acquisition of historical climate data; and development of tools that facilitate acquisition, processing, evaluation, and reporting of weather and climate data. The inventory of climate stations within and adjacent to NPS units has been published in 32 Inventory and Monitoring Network-specific reports. These reports include information on regional climate drivers, monitoring station locations, data provenance, measurements, periods of record, and other station metadata. An initial acquistion of a static climate data set for this inventory (PRISM data) was eventually superseded by multiple on-line data sources that are kept up-to-date and provide a variety on visualization and download capabilities. Climate inventory data needed by NPS is currently managed and stored by outside organizations that specialize in managing climate inventory data. The Inventory and Monitoring Program has developed a series of standard operating procedures (SOPs) for acquiring and analyzing data from many of these authoritative sources, along with a stable repository for climate data requested by NPS uses. This provides a means to access, manage, and use these data in a single and consistent format, and avert duplications of effort.
- Type
- Program
- Authors
- NPS Inventory & Monitoring Program
- Units
- CLI , NRIM
- Keywords
- Climate, Inventory, NCDC, raws, snotel, WRCC
Contents
- Weather and Climate Inventory, Central Alaska Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, North Coast and Cascades Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, Heartland I&M Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, Sonoran Desert I&M Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, Northern Colorado Plateau Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, San Francisco Bay Area Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, Greater Yellowstone Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, Appalachian Highlands Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, Mediterranean Coast Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, Southwest Alaska Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, Northeast Temperate Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, Southern Colorado Plateau Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, Pacific Island Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, Great Lakes Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, Gulf Coast Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, Rocky Mountain Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, Sierra Nevada Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, Eastern Rivers and Mountains Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, Arctic Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, Klamath Network
- SECN Inventory [Ongoing]: Southeast Coast Network Weather and Climate
- Weather and Climate Inventory, Upper Columbia Basin Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, Southern Plains Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, Mojave Desert Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, South Florida/Caribbean Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, Southeast Alaska Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, Mid-Atlantic Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, Chihuahuan Desert Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, Northern Great Plains Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, Cumberland/Piedmont Network
- Weather and Climate Inventory, National Capital Region Network