Weather and Climate Inventory National Park Service Southern Colorado Plateau Network

Climate drives many of the environmental processes in the Southern Colorado Plateau Inventory and Monitoring Network (SCPN). In this report, the authors provide the following information: - Overview of broad-scale climatic factors and zones important to SCPN park units; - Inventory of weather and climate station locations in and near SCPN park units relevant to the National Park Service (NPS) I&M Program; - 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.); and - Initial evaluation of the adequacy of coverage for existing weather stations and recommendations for improvements in monitoring weather and climate.