Weather and Climate Inventory National Park Service Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network (Natural Resource Technical Report NPS/NCBN/NRTR?2006/008)

This project was initiated to inventory past and present climate monitoring efforts in the Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network (NCBN). In this report, the authors provide the following information: • Overview of broad-scale climatic factors and zones important to NCBN park units; • Inventory of weather and climate station locations in and near NCBN park units relevant to the 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.