Scientific Investigations Report 2006–5274
U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Scientific Investigations Report 2006–5274
Table 2. Climate stations used in model simulations or to estimate missing data.
[NWS, National Weather Service; NRCS, Natural Resources Conservation Service; Reclamation, Bureau of Reclamation. All stations record daily precipitation and daily minimum and maximum air temperature]
| Station name (real-time station) |
Agency | Latitude | Longitude | Altitude (feet) |
Period of record | Record used in study |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (degrees, minutes, and seconds) | ||||||
| Conconully | NWS | 48 33 00 | 119 45 00 | 2,319 | June 1948 to present | precipitation and temperature, Oct. 1948–Sept. 1999, used as model input temperature, Oct. 1948–Sept. 1989, used to calculate synthetic daily minimum and maximum air temperatures for Omak OMAW AgriMet station |
| Conconully CCR | Reclamation | 48 32 17 | 119 44 50 | 2,290 | Aug. 1999 to present | precipitation and temperature, Oct. 1999–Sept. 2004, used as model input |
| Omak 4 N | NWS | 48 27 00 | 119 31 00 | 1,301 | Jan. 1931 to present | precipitation and temperature, Oct. 1948–Sept. 1999, used to estimate missing record for Conconully station temperature, Oct. 1948–Sept. 1989, used to calculate synthetic daily minimum and maximum air temperatures for Omak OMAW AgriMet station |
| Omak OMAW | Reclamation | 48 24 09 | 119 34 34 | 1,235 | Jan. 1989 to present | precipitation, Oct. 1989–Sept. 1996, used as model input temperature, Oct. 1989–Sept. 2004, used as model input temperature, Feb. 1989–Sept. 1998, used to compute lapse rates between this station and Salmon Meadows SNOTEL station |
| Salmon Meadows | NRCS | 48 40 00 | 119 50 00 | 4,500 | precipitation: Oct. 1981 to Oct. 1982Oct. 1983 to present temperature: Feb. 1989 to present |
precipitation, Oct. 1989–Sept. 1996, used as model input temperature, Feb. 1989–Sept. 1998, used to compute lapse rates between this station and Omak OMAW AgriMet station |
| Winthrop 1 WSW | NWS | 48 27 00 | 120 12 00 | 1,755 | Jan. 1931 to present | precipitation and temperature, Oct. 1948–Sept. 1999, used to estimate missing record for Conconully station temperature, Oct. 1948–Sept. 1989, used to calculate synthetic daily minimum and maximum air temperatures for Omak OMAW AgriMet station |
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