Weather and climate inventory, National Park Service, Pacific Island Network

Davey CA, Redmond KT, Simeral DB. 2006. Weather and climate inventory, National Park Service, Pacific Island Network. Natural Resource Technical Report. NPS/PACN/NRTR—2006/003. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado

This report inventories past and present climate monitoring efforts in PACN. In the report, we provide the following information:• Overview of broad-scale climatic factors and zones important to PACN park units.• Inventory of weather station locations in and near PACN park units.• Results of an inventory of metadata on each weather station, including affiliationsfor weather-monitoring networks, types of measurements recorded at these stations,and information about the actual measurements (length of record, etc.).• Initial evaluation of the adequacy of coverage for existing weather stations andrecommendations for improvements in monitoring weather and climate.

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Published Report
Authors
Davey, C; Redmond, K; Simeral, D
Date of Issue
2006
Publisher
National Park Service
Units
AMME , CLI , HALE , HAVO , KALA , NPSA , NRSS , PACN , PUHE , PUHO , WAPA
Keywords
Aesthetics, Climate, Climate change detection, Climate Monitoring, Precipitation, Weather, Weather/climate stations, WRCC-Report

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