Weather of Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site and Valley Forge National Historical Park: Mid-Atlantic Network summary report for 2013
Knight P, Imhoff K, Person A, Miller S. 2014. Weather of Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site and Valley Forge National Historical Park: Mid-Atlantic Network summary report for 2013. Natural Resource Data Series. NPS/MIDN/NRDS—2014/718. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
The purpose of this report is to provide a concise weather and climate summary for January 1 to December 31, 2013, 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 objective: Document current status and long-term trends in air temperature and precipitation at multiple temporal scales (e.g., daily, monthly, seasonal, annual, and decadal) and spatial scales (e.g., individual stations and aggregated stations such as climate divisions) utilizing existing weather and climate monitoring programs and datasets. To accomplish this objective, 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 and outlined in the Weather and Climate Monitoring Protocol for the Eastern Rivers and Mountains Network and Mid-Atlantic Network of the National Park Service (Marshall et al. 2012). Through this analysis, a select number of weather/climate observing stations were chosen as representative of each park; these are the primary data sources used in the profile of 2013’s climate summary and trends.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Knight, Paul; Imhoff, Kyle; Person, Aurthur; Miller, Sonya
- Date of Issue
- 2014-10
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- HOFU , MIDN , NRSS , VAFO
- Keywords
- Climate, Monitoring, Weather, Weather Monitor
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Air and Climate | Weather and Climate | Weather and Climate