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WRCC – NPS Climate Inventory Project
Kelly T. Redmond
Western Regional Climate Center
Desert Research Institute
Reno Nevada
National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Workshop
San Diego, California 2006 February 7-10
A busy web site … about 127,000 accesses per day in January 2006,
and 1.55 Gb / day of data / products. Driven largely by user requests.
Some Prehistory
Long involvement with western resource management agencies
Climate Reference Network Project. Visited 35-40 western parks.
Several smaller projects
Crater Lake water budget and climate studies since 1986 (NPS)
Channel Islands (NPS / USGS)
Southwest Alaska Network (NPS)
Central Alaska Network (NPS)
Yosemite Hydroclimate (NSF and CEC)
Aligns with a large number of observational activities of WRCC
Aligns very closely with fundamental mission of WRCC
Much overlap with many ongoing projects
Many of the necessary tools are in place or well into development
Have good internal access to main national data historical / live data
WRCC-NPS Climate Inventory Project Goals
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Complete the weather/climate inventory of each of the 32 I&M
Networks (a total of about 285 park units)
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Produce and assist in production of network-specific reports
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Develop and populate a database documenting weather stations in
and near I&M Parks
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Evaluate adequacy of coverage and identify major information gaps
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Begin evaluation of existing weather and climate monitoring protocols
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Produce templates for monitoring protocols that can be adopted and
individualized by other parks
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Begin development of network and park specific web pages to
access, display, manipulate and summarize data
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Finish this by Autumn 2006 !
Current Status of Inventories
32 Networks
At least half will need to be produced nearly from scratch (15-17 ?)
Remaining half are in different stages of preparation
Some are essentially “done” ?
Some are “close” ?
Some are “assembling” ?
Some are “very early” ?
Some existing reports address several phases at once
Inventories
Design
Protocols
Some involve contractors, most are in-house (reminder to meet 5:30)
Effort will involve outright production in some cases, assistance and
advice and suggestions in other cases
Facets of this project
It’s complicated !
Lots of people and networks, with activities at different stages
Will try to use web to assist with coordination, communication, status
www.wrcc.dri.edu/nps
Much material can be found on web. Build access methods to:
Basic background climate, monitoring, upload/download
Prototypes and initial efforts: CAKN and NCPN
Mostly inventories. Some protocol & design, web pages, data access.
Usual situation: metadata not tied to data.
Nomenclature
At WRCC we call this: NPS Climate Inventory Project
Climate networks vs NPS I&M networks
Metadata (data about data) vs data (atmospheric measurements)
Report Template (first will be CAKN, then NCPN)
Would like similar format for all reports
“Weather and Climate Inventory: NPS XXXX Network”
0. Executive summary
1. Intro, purpose and goals. Why doing this?
2. General background. Which parks, basic climate, spatial and
temporal factors. Maps, tables, figures as needed.
3. Methodology used to obtain material.
4. Climate networks (national, regional, local), metadata tables, station
location maps, data locations if known.
5. Recommendations, suggestions, guidelines. General considerations
that apply to all regions. Specific considerations that apply to this
network. Gaps in coverage. Duplications. Partnership and
leveraging opportunities.
6. References, web sites, contacts.
7. Appendix: Descriptions or pointers to more detailed descriptions of
major national, regional, or organizational observing networks.
8. Appendix if needed: Additional maps.
9. Electronic appendices or accompanyment: map files, location tables
Current Status
Have hired a post-doc to oversee the daily details of the project.
Christopher Davey, CSU (Ecology and Atmospheric Science)
Strong interest in station siting
Personnel at WRCC
Kelly Redmond – Overall project oversight and coordination
Christopher Davey – Inventory preparation, detailed project mgmt
Grant Kelly – Access to metadata, web development, forms for entering metadata
Greg McCurdy – Computer admin, applications, data feeds, web, protocols, field
Dave Simeral – GIS, field maintenance, cold and wind and rain work
Web pages under development
Planning on a method for remote metadata entry via web. Including photos.
Several visits, WRCC with Fort Collins, regional meetings, national meeting
First report will be CAKN, then NCPN. Tentative schedule prepared. Now allowing about 6
weeks per Network, overlapping.
Drawing significantly on previous reports. Lots of overlap in many topics.
Will likely post for review for a short time.
In draft form
As of 06 Feb 2006
Tentative order reports (for planning … not carved in stone)
A busy web site … about 127,000 accesses per day in January 2005,
and 1.55 Gb / day of data / products. Driven largely by user requests.
Available soon …
www.calclim.dri.edu
Southern
California
(Note: Needs username & access code)
Select subdirectory
Upload
New subdirectory
Rename
Delete
(Backed up daily)
NPS I&M
Climate and Weather
Project
web pages
Reachable through a
link from
www.wrcc.dri.edu/nps
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Courtesy of Mike Dettinger, USGS / Scripps.
Dettinger MD. 2005. From climate change spaghetti to climate-change distributions for 21st
Century California. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science. Vol. 3, Issue 1, (March
2005), Article 4.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/jmie/sfews/vol3/iss1/art4
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Courtesy of Mike Dettinger, USGS / Scripps.
Dettinger MD. 2005. From climate change spaghetti to climate-change distributions for 21st
Century California. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science. Vol. 3, Issue 1, (March
2005), Article 4.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/jmie/sfews/vol3/iss1/art4
Last six years
Sep-Aug
Temperature
As departure (F)
from
1961-1990
1971-2000
1950-1995
1895-2000
One of many
motivations
for better
climate data.
What’s happening with NOAA obs programs?
Cooperative program
NERON – National Environmental Real-time Observational Network
WRCC Personnel
Kelly Redmond
775-674-7011 [email protected]
Greg McCurdy
775-674-7165 [email protected]
Dave Simeral
775-674-7132 [email protected]
Grant Kelly
775-674-7164 [email protected]
Christopher Davey 775-674-xxxx [email protected]
Heather Kemp
775-674-7165 [email protected]
Fax machine
775-674-7016
NPS Fort Collins Personnel
John Gross
970-267-2111 [email protected]
Margaret Beer
970-267-2168 [email protected]
Danelle Malget
970-267-xxxx [email protected]
Fax machine
970-225-3597 Fort Collins NPS
NPS Elsewhere
Pam Sousanes
907-683-9573 [email protected]
Steve Garman
435-719-2356 [email protected]
John Ray
303-969-2820 [email protected]
And …
You !
Mailing addresses:
Inventory and Monitoring Program
National Park Service
1201 Oakridge Drive, Suite 150
Ft Collins, CO 80525
Western Regional Climate Center
Desert Research Institute
2215 Raggio Parkway
Reno, Nevada 89512-1095
WRCC main telephone number: 775-674-7010
WRCC web address: www.wrcc.dri.edu
Thank
You !
Discards
Photographic Documentation of
Long-Term Climate Stations
Kelly T. Redmond
Regional Climatologist
Western Regional Climate Center
Desert Research Institute
Reno Nevada 89512-1095
775-674-7011 voice
775-674-7016 fax
[email protected]
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