Weather of Appomattox Court House National Historical Park and Booker T. Washington National Monument: Mid-Atlantic Network summary report for 2011
Knight P, Imhoff K, Bahrmann C, Miller S. 2012. Weather of Appomattox Court House National Historical Park and Booker T. Washington National Monument: Mid-Atlantic Network summary report for 2011. Natural Resource Data Series. NPS/MIDN/NRDS—2012/337. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
The purpose of this report is to provide a concise climate summary for January 1–December 31, 2011, and to place current patterns and trends in an appropriate historical, regional, and global context (Marshall et al. 2012). 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 2011’s climate summary and trends.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Knight, Paul; Imhoff, Kyle; Bahrmann, Chad; Miller, Sonya
- Date of Issue
- 2012-07
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- APCO , BOWA , MIDN , NRSS
- Keywords
- Climate, Monitoring, Weather, Weather Monitor
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Air and Climate | Weather and Climate | Weather and Climate