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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
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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.
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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
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• WRCC-NPS Climate Inventory Project Goals
• Complete the weather/climate inventory of each of
  the 32 IM Networks (a total of about 285 park
  units)
• Produce and assist in production of
  network-specific reports
• Develop and populate a database documenting
  weather stations in and near IM Parks
• Evaluate adequacy of coverage and identify major
  information gaps
• Begin evaluation of existing weather and climate
  monitoring protocols
• Produce templates for monitoring protocols that
  can be adopted and individualized by other parks
• Begin development of network and park specific
  web pages to access, display, manipulate and
  summarize data
• Finish this by Autumn 2006 !

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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 530) Effort will involve outright
production in some cases, assistance and advice
and suggestions in other cases
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Facets of this project Its 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 IM networks Metadata (data about data) vs
data (atmospheric measurements) Station
inventories vs data inventories (most of focus
is on former)
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• 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
• Intro, purpose and goals. Why doing this?
• General background. Which parks, basic climate,
  spatial and temporal factors. Maps, tables,
  figures as needed.
• Methodology used to obtain material.
• Climate networks (national, regional, local),
  metadata tables, station location maps, data
  locations if known.
• 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.
• References, web sites, contacts.
• Appendix Descriptions or pointers to more
  detailed descriptions of major national,
  regional, or organizational observing networks.
• Appendix if needed Additional maps.
• Electronic appendices or accompanyment map
  files, location tables

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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.
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In draft form As of 06 Feb 2006
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Tentative order reports (for planning not
carved in stone)
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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.
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Available soon
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www.calclim.dri.edu
Southern California
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(Note Needs username access code)
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Select subdirectory Upload New
subdirectory Rename Delete (Backed up
daily)
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NPS IM 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
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Last six years Sep-Aug Temperature As departure
(F) from 1961-1990 1971-2000 1950-1995 1
895-2000
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One of many motivations for better climate data.
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Whats happening with NOAA obs
programs? Cooperative program NERON National
Environmental Real-time Observational Network
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WRCC Personnel Kelly Redmond 775-674-7011
kelly.Redmond_at_dri.edu Greg McCurdy 775-674-7165
greg.mccurdy_at_dri.edu Dave Simeral 775-674-7132
dave.simeral_at_dri.edu Grant Kelly 775-674-7164
grant.kelly_at_dri.edu Christopher
Davey 775-674-xxxx davey_at_cira.colostate.edu Hea
ther Kemp 775-674-7165 heather.kemp_at_dri.edu Fax
machine 775-674-7016 NPS Fort Collins
Personnel John Gross 970-267-2111
john_gross_at_nps.gov Margaret Beer 970-267-2168
margaret_beer_at_nps.gov Danelle Malget 970-267-xxxx
danelle.malget_at_nps.gov Fax machine 970-225-3597
Fort Collins NPS NPS Elsewhere Pam
Sousanes 907-683-9573 pam_sousanes_at_nps.gov Stev
e Garman 435-719-2356 steven_garman_at_nps.gov Joh
n Ray 303-969-2820 john_d_ray_at_nps.gov 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
And You !
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Thank You !
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Discards
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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 kelly.redmond_at_dri.edu Version 20040815