Daily temperature data from the Foothills Climate Array Mesonet, Canadian Rocky Mountains, 2005-2010
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Daily temperature data from the Foothills Climate Array Mesonet, Canadian Rocky Mountains, 2005-2010
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Near-surface air temperatures were monitored from 2005 to 2010 in a mesoscale network of 230 sites in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Alberta, Canada. The monitoring network covers a range of elevations from 890 to 2880 m above sea level and an area of about 18 000 km², sampling a variety of topographic settings and surface environments with an average spatial density of one station per 78 km². This paper presents the multiyear temperature dataset from this study, with minimum, maximum, and mean daily temperature data. In this paper, we describe the quality control and processing methods used to clean and filter the data and assess its accuracy. Overall data coverage for the study period is 91 %. We introduce a weather-system-dependent gap-filling technique to estimate the missing 9 % of data. Monthly and seasonal distributions of minimum, maximum, and mean daily temperature lapse rates are shown for the region.
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Wood, Wendy H; Marshall, Shawn J; Fargey, Shannon E; Whitehead, Terri L (2017): Daily temperature data from the Foothills Climate Array Mesonet, Canadian Rocky Mountains, 2005-2010. PANGAEA,
https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.880611Wood, WH et al. (2018): Daily temperature records from a mesonet in the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, 2005-2010. Earth System Science Data, 10(1), 595-607,
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-595-2018
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