NEON Intermountain Region Observatory Network (IRON)
Basin and Range, Steppe and Land Transition (BAR SALT)
Onaqui (steppe) Images
Climate diagram for Vernon, UT, approximately 8 km from the proposed Onaqui_Ault site (1953-2005). Monthly average temperature data are shown in red; monthly average precipitation is shown in blue. Data are from the National Climate Data Center. Precipitation values differ from values for the Onaqui-Ault site calculated using PRISM.
Considerable meteorlogical infrastructure is already in place and maintained by agencies and universities in the vicinity of the Onaqui Wildland Site. These include stations maintained by the Tooele County Department of Emergency Management, Natural Resource Conservation Services, Bureau of Land Management, Dugway Army Proving Grounds, SageSTEP program, and Utah State University. Automated data collection is already available for nearly all of these sites through MesoWest (http://www.met.utah.edu/mesowest).
