Despite only identifying one RAWS station within CRLA (Panhandle), there are numerous RAWS stations within 40 km of the park unit (Table 4.3). The RAWS stations “Big Butte” and “Rover” have data records that are unreliable. Other than these two stations, the remaining stations have fairly complete data records. The longest data records come from the RAWS stations “Buckeye” (29 km west of CRLA) and “Toketee” (22 km northwest of CRLA), both starting in January 1985. The only RAWS stations for which we didn’t note significant data gaps are “Chiloquin” (1986-present), located 26 km southeast of CRLA, and “Klamath NWR” (2002-present), located 26 km southeast of CRLA.
We identified five SNOTEL sites (all active) within 40 km of CRLA (Table 4.3). Along with RAWS sites, SNOTEL sites are the primary sources of automated weather data for the region surrounding CRLA. The closest SNOTEL site to CRLA is “Sevenmile Marsh,” located 11 km south of the park unit. “Cold Springs Camp” is another SNOTEL station located south of CRLA (28 km from park unit). The remaining SNOTEL stations we identified were located north and northeast of the park unit (Figure 4.1).
We identified two stations (both active) within LABE (Table 4.3; Figure 4.1). The COOP station “Lava Beds N M” is located in south-central LABE and provides a data record going back to 1948.This data record is fairly complete but had numerous data gaps during the 1970s and 1980s. The RAWS station “Indian Well” is also located in south-central LABE and has been providing near-real-time weather data since 1997. There were numerous data gaps at this RAWS site from 1997 to 1999, but the data record has been very complete since 1999.
