Central Sierras 5-station Precipitation Index

A combination of 5 long stations of precipitation values in the Central Sierras.

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Time-series Plotting page

Description

The time-series shows Central Sierras precipitation (high elevation) by combining 5 different stations into a single index. The stations are Calaveras Big Trees (5100'), Hetch Hetchy (4000'), South Entrance Yosemite (6192'), North Fork Ranger Station (3140'), and Huntington Lake (7020').

Specifications

Temporal Coverage

Monthly values: 1913/01 to near present
Update Status:Monthly, Irregular

Data Notes

Units: inches
Missing data value: -99.0

Get Data

Time-series List

Central Sierra Precipitation: Standard PSL Format, CSV, NetCDF (What is standard format?)

Usage

Usage Restrictions

None

Caveats

None

Related time-series and links

Related Time-series

North Sierras precipitation ind
South Sierras precipitation index.

Links

Analysis pages that use time-series

Analysis pages

Source, References, and Citation

Original Source

Data is from the California department of water resources. It can be plotted here: https://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/precipapp/get5SIPrecipIndex.action. Original historic values are here. Recent updates are here. Values between the 2 are here.

Time-series source dataset(s)

Input is station data.

References

Please cite the California Department of Water resources