Checking for non-preferred file/folder path names (may take a long time depending on the number of files/folders) ...

BCCZO -- Precipitation -- B1 Historical Precipitation Site (B1_Hist_Precip) -- B1 Historical Site -- (1952-1964)


Authors:
Owners: This resource does not have an owner who is an active HydroShare user. Contact CUAHSI (help@cuahsi.org) for information on this resource.
Type: Resource
Storage: The size of this resource is 127.4 KB
Created: Nov 19, 2019 at 7:33 a.m.
Last updated: Nov 21, 2019 at 8:09 p.m.
Citation: See how to cite this resource
Content types: Single File Content 
Sharing Status: Public
Views: 2016
Downloads: 30
+1 Votes: Be the first one to 
 this.
Comments: No comments (yet)

Abstract

Precipitation data were collected from a ridgetop climate station East of Niwot Ridge (B1 at 2591 m) throughout the year using a chart recorder. Initially, instrumentation consisted of an 8-inch metal rain gauge with receiving rim about 3 feet off the ground and measurements were made on approximately weekly basis. More recently, instrumentation consisted of a Fegusson type weighing rain gage. Precipitation was caught in a bucket containing ethylene glycol (to melt snow) and light oil (to prevent evaporation). Asthe weight of the bucket increased, the pen moved up via a spring mechanism and recordedona rotating chart. Precipitation was recorded on a continuous basis.

Subject Keywords

Coverage

Spatial

Coordinate System/Geographic Projection:
WGS 84 EPSG:4326
Coordinate Units:
Decimal degrees
Place/Area Name:
Boulder Creek Watershed, B1 Historical Site
North Latitude
40.3234°
East Longitude
-104.9676°
South Latitude
39.6819°
West Longitude
-105.7385°

Temporal

Start Date:
End Date:

Content

ReadMe.md

BCCZO -- Precipitation -- B1 Historical Precipitation Site (B1_Hist_Precip) -- B1 Historical Site -- (1952-1964)


OVERVIEW

Description/Abstract

Precipitation data were collected from a ridgetop climate station East of Niwot Ridge (B1 at 2591 m) throughout the year using a chart recorder. Initially, instrumentation consisted of an 8-inch metal rain gauge with receiving rim about 3 feet off the ground and measurements were made on approximately weekly basis. More recently, instrumentation consisted of a Fegusson type weighing rain gage. Precipitation was caught in a bucket containing ethylene glycol (to melt snow) and light oil (to prevent evaporation). Asthe weight of the bucket increased, the pen moved up via a spring mechanism and recordedona rotating chart. Precipitation was recorded on a continuous basis.

Creator/Author

Mark Losleben

CZOs

Boulder

Contact

BcCZOdata@colorado.edu

Subtitle

ID: B1_Hist_Precip




SUBJECTS

Disciplines

Climatology / Meteorology

Topics

Precipitation

Subtopic

B1 Historical Precipitation Site (B1_Hist_Precip)

Keywords

B1|Meteorology|Met|Precipitation|Climate|Rain|Snow

Variables

date|year|julianday|precip|qdays (qualifying days)

Variables ODM2

Precipitation




TEMPORAL

Date Start

1952-10-01

Date End

1964-12-31




SPATIAL

Field Areas

Boulder Creek Watershed

Location

B1 Historical Site

North latitude

40.32340768787086

South latitude

39.68192824657209

West longitude

-105.73852879278799

East longitude

-104.96763506818859




REFERENCE

CZO ID

6523

Related datasets

BCCZO -- Air Temperature -- B1 Air Temp & Relative Humidity (B1_TempRH) -- B1 -- (2012-2015)

BCCZO -- Climate, Air Temperature, Electrical Conductivity, Snow Depth -- B1 Meteorological Site (B1_Met) -- B1 -- (2017-2018)

BCCZO -- Precipitation -- B1 Historical Precipitation Site (B1_Hist_Precip) -- B1 Historical Site -- (1952-1964)

BCCZO -- Climate, Meteorology -- B1 Historical Meteorological Site (B1_Hist_Met) -- B1 Historical Site -- (1952-1970)

BCCZO -- Air Temperature, Solar Radiation -- B1 Historical AirT Site (B1_Hist_AirT) -- B1 Historical Site -- (1987-2000)




COMMENTS

Comments

An EasyEntry program was written in order to efficiently get the precipitation data contained in the 3 Marr et al. reports (listed above) into an electronic form. Data were entered and rekeyed during the early summer of 1993 by Susan Kindig and Mike Sannes. The resulting files were further processed and archived on niwotlter, the NWT LTER server. These files were the source of the data that appear in the data section in this file.The weighing-bucket gauges are currently not in use, although partial precipitation records may exist for the post-1964 period. For periods where the precipitation quantity represents more than a 24-hr period, that quantity is recorded on the final day of the period and the number of days over which that quantity occurred is given in the final field.Metadata for B1 climatological data from other sources can be found at:http://niwot.colorado.edu/meta_data/b-1dp219.ml.meta.txthttp://niwot.colorado.edu/meta_data/b-1mtape.ml.meta.txthttp://niwot.colorado.edu/meta_data/b-1hobo.hourly.jm.meta.txt

Additional Metadata

Name Value
czos Boulder
czo_id 6523
comments An EasyEntry program was written in order to efficiently get the precipitation data contained in the 3 Marr et al. reports (listed above) into an electronic form. Data were entered and rekeyed during the early summer of 1993 by Susan Kindig and Mike Sannes. The resulting files were further processed and archived on niwotlter, the NWT LTER server. These files were the source of the data that appear in the data section in this file.The weighing-bucket gauges are currently not in use, although partial precipitation records may exist for the post-1964 period. For periods where the precipitation quantity represents more than a 24-hr period, that quantity is recorded on the final day of the period and the number of days over which that quantity occurred is given in the final field.Metadata for B1 climatological data from other sources can be found at:http://niwot.colorado.edu/meta_data/b-1dp219.ml.meta.txthttp://niwot.colorado.edu/meta_data/b-1mtape.ml.meta.txthttp://niwot.colorado.edu/meta_data/b-1hobo.hourly.jm.meta.txt
keywords B1, Meteorology, Met, Precipitation, Climate, Rain, Snow
subtitle ID: B1_Hist_Precip
variables date, year, julianday, precip, qdays (qualifying days)
disciplines Climatology / Meteorology
related_datasets 6524, 6526, 6523, 6522, 6521
related_datasets_hs https://www.hydroshare.org/resource/4fa25c67f23d4218980603f05d7012be/, https://www.hydroshare.org/resource/3ecfe3f27550493683fb32a8f3b6b50c/, https://www.hydroshare.org/resource/c74ee10b17a740af885ee404644abbed/, https://www.hydroshare.org/resource/e440e0d3ad5b49929927e63f25226307/, https://www.hydroshare.org/resource/9dfb6ae4748845ceb94676ec589e75a5/

How to Cite

Losleben, M. (2019). BCCZO -- Precipitation -- B1 Historical Precipitation Site (B1_Hist_Precip) -- B1 Historical Site -- (1952-1964), HydroShare, http://www.hydroshare.org/resource/c74ee10b17a740af885ee404644abbed

This resource is shared under the Creative Commons Attribution CC BY.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
CC-BY

Comments

There are currently no comments

New Comment

required