Weather and Climate Inventory National Park Service Northern Colorado Plateau Network

Climate drives many of the environmental processes in the Northern Colorado Plateau Inventory and Monitoring Network (NCPN). In this report, we provide the following information: - Overview of broad-scale climatic factors and zones important to NCPN park units. - Inventory of weather and climate station locations in and near NCPN park units. - Results of an inventory of metadata on each weather station, including affiliations for 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 and recommendations for improvements in monitoring weather and climate.