Spatial Information Systems Institute -- GIS METADATA

LIBRARY: SONOMARIN

COVERAGE NAME: RAIN_GUAGES

METADATA FILE: RAIN_GUAGES.TXT

METADATA FILE DATE: 11/01/02


COVERAGE DESCRIPTION:

Theme name: PORE rain gauges 
Description: Point Reyes National Seashore (PORE) monitors rainfall at these locations.  Data found in KRIS West Marin comes from the Bear Valley station and includes monitoring from 1965-1998.


Contact Person:      Brannon Ketcham
                     Point Reyes National Seashore
                     Point Reyes Station, CA  94956
                     brannon_ketcham@nps.gov

                     415-464-5192



VITAL STATISTICS:

Datum:                     NAD 27
Projection:                UTM
Units:                     Meters
1st Std. Parallel:         34 00 00 (34.0 degrees N)
2nd Std. Parallel:         40 30 00 (40.5 degrees N)
Longitude of Origin:      -120 00 00 (120.0 degrees W)
Latitude of Origin:        00 00 00 (0.0 degrees)
False Easting (X shift):   0
False Northing (Y shift):  0

Conversion Software:       ARC/Info rev 7.2.1 
Data Structure:            Vector
ARC/INFO Coverage Type:    Points
ARC/INFO Precision:        Single
ARC/INFO Tolerances:
Number of Features: arcs; polygons; 
Layer Size:
Data Updated:
Updated by:
Notes/Comments:


DATA DICTIONARY:

Structure for          .PAT

COLUMN   ITEM NAME        WIDTH OUTPUT  TYPE N.DEC
    1  AREA                   4    12     F      3
    5  PERIMETER              4    12     F      3
    9  RAIN_GUAGES#           4     5     B      -
   13  RAIN_GUAGES-ID         4     5     B      -
   17  ID                     8     8     F      0


DATA QUALITY ASSESSMENT: Unknown


DOCUMENTATION DATES:

   August 2002:     Reprojected to UTM NAD27 (no shift), and clipped to KRIS Project study area. 


   Contact Name:       P. J. Trichilo
                       Institute for Fisheries Resources (IFR)
                       791 Eighth Street
                       Arcata, CA  95521

   Contact's Phone:    (707) 822-9428