Cascades: L-moments of annual precipitation totals
Description
$L$-moments of annual precipitation totals for the
North Cascades region of Plantico et al. (1990).source
The file cascades.dat in the LMOMENTS Fortran package (Hosking, 1996).Details
The data are summary statistics of annual precipitation totals
at 19 sites in the northwest U.S.,
the North Cascades region of Plantico et al. (1990).
The precipitation data were obtained from the Historical Climatology Network
(Karl et al., 1990).References
Hosking, J. R. M. (1996).
Fortran routines for use with the method of $L$-moments, Version 3.
Research Report RC20525, IBM Research Division, Yorktown Heights, N.Y.
Karl, T. R., Williams, C. N., Quinlan, F. T., and Boden, T. A. (1990).
United States historical climatology network (HCN) serial temperature
and precipitation data.
ORNL/CDIAC-30 NDP-019/R1, Carbon Dioxide Information
Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Plantico, M. S., Karl, T. R., Kukla, G., and Gavin, J. (1990).
Is recent climate change across the United States related to rising
levels of anthropogenic greenhouse gases?
Journal of Geophysical Research, 95, 16617--16637.