Salish Sea Bioregion Total Annual Precipitation

1991-2020 average total annual precipitation for the Salish Sea Bioregion. Created for the Salish Sea Atlas (wp.wwu.edu/SalishSeaAtlas).

Average annual total precipitation for the Salish Sea Bioregion.

1991-2020 average climate variables were statistically downscaled to 90 meter resolution using the standalone ClimateNA software based on elevations from the Salish Sea Atlas's Digital Elevation Model. The data were converted to raster format for analysis and clipped to the Salish Sea Atlas's bioregional boundary dataset. All processing and analysis was completed using the NAD 83 UTM Zone 10 N coordinate system.

For visualization purposes, raster climate datasets were reclassified into discrete ranges of values, then converted to vector polygons. Simplified attributes were calculated for each polygon.

Gridded raster versions of the data can be downloaded from the Salish Sea Atlas data portal.

Date (Publication): 2021-12-31

Code: 10.48689/dfbf38ee-63ba-4de3-b4a2-6041a9d58c9c

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Purpose: 1991-2020 average total annual precipitation for the Salish Sea Bioregion. Created for the Salish Sea Atlas (wp.wwu.edu/SalishSeaAtlas).

Credit: Analysis and cartography by Aquila Flower

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Western Washington University	Aquila Flower	Aquila.Flower@wwu.edu	Point of contact

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

Precipitation
Water
Climate
Environmental indicators

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

Precipitation
Water
Climate
Environmental indicators

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Other constraints: License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Details: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. You are free to download, modify, and share this dataset for non-commercial purposes, but you must include a citation (such as "Salish Sea Atlas, Aquila Flower, 2021"). If you do use the dataset, I'd love to hear from you about how you're using it.

Language: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Environment

Description: Salish Sea watershed basin

Supplemental Information: Data sources:

Original climate records were downscaled using ClimateNA: Wang T, Hamann A, Spittlehouse D, Carroll C (2016) Locally Downscaled and Spatially Customizable Climate Data for Historical and Future Periods for North America. PLoS ONE 11(6): e0156720. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0156720

ClimateNA downscaled data are derived from gridded climate records from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University: Daly, C., Halbleib, M., Smith, J. I., Gibson, W. P., Doggett, M. K., Taylor, G. H., ... & Pasteris, P. P. (2008). Physiographically sensitive mapping of climatological temperature and precipitation across the conterminous United States. International Journal of Climatology: a Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 28(15), 2031-2064.

Elevation data from the Salish Sea Atlas were used in downscaling temperature data.

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Western Washington University	Aquila Flower	Aquila.Flower@wwu.edu	Distributor

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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related	https://wp.wwu.edu/salishseaatlas/data/	Salish Sea Atlas

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Date stamp: 2023-12-17T20:45:47.411Z

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Metadata standard version: NAP - CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Western Washington University	Aquila Flower	Aquila.Flower@wwu.edu	Point of contact

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