Tim Bardsley and Mark W. Williams
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research and
Department of Geography, CB 450,
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Figure 2.
Location of
Belfort precipitation recording gages
at D1 (3,700 m) and at the Saddle on Niwot Ridge
(3,500 m).
The saddle site has an uninterrupted fetch of about two
kilometers and is the location of intensive biogeochemical
research; the D1 site is located close to the continental
divide with little fetch.
Niwot Ridge is a Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) network site funded by the National Science Foundation. Meteorlogical measurements in addition to precipitation amount include solar radiation, wind speed, and air temperature, among others.