Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
9-30-2008
Publisher
Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Abstract
This is the final report presenting precipitation data collected under task ORD-FYO4-007 “Precipitation Monitoring at Yucca Mountain”. This task acquired data using tipping bucket rain gauges to measure, with known accuracy, the accumulation and timing of precipitation in the vicinity of Yucca Mountain. Operation of the tipping bucket precipitation monitoring network was assumed by the Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies (HRC) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) in March of 2001. Precipitation monitoring data collection concluded June of 2008. All data presented in this report were collected during that time.
Keywords
Groundwater; Nevada – Yucca Mountain; Precipitation (Meteorology) -- Measurement; Rain and rainfall – Measurement; Water table
Disciplines
Climate | Hydrology | Meteorology
Language
English
Repository Citation
McGinnis, N.,
Brandt, A.
(2008).
Results of precipitation monitoring at Yucca Mountain.
Available at:
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/yucca_mtn_pubs/20
Comments
Task ORD-FY04-007