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<br />, <br />G01441r <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />-7- <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />STEP NO. 2 <br /> <br />Since 1948 the Weather Bureau has currently been entering on punch cards <br />the daily climatological observations for about 215 stations in Colorado. <br />These include regular Weather Bureau Stations and cooperative and volunteer <br />climatological stations throughout the state. As of July 1, 1958, ten years <br />of record is now available on punched cards for most of these stations. <br />. <br /> <br />In the western slopes of the Colorado Rockies which feed the Upper Colorado <br /> <br /> <br />River Basin there are some 30 stations which have a record of 11 years or more <br /> <br />prior to 1948. In addition to the 20 stations listed above for which the greater <br /> <br /> <br />record has already been shown, additional stations which havs records that oould <br /> <br /> <br />and should be placed on punch cards are: <br /> <br />Aspen <br />Norwood <br />Northdale <br /> <br />Green Mountain Dam <br />Greystone <br />Sunbeam <br />Wolf Creek Pass <br /> <br />Craig <br />Eagle <br /> <br />The placing of the daily precipitation (and temperature) reoords on punohed <br /> <br /> <br />cards for these stations would constitute the handling of approximately 1100 <br /> <br /> <br />station years of record. <br /> <br />It is partioularly important that these cards be considered as a contri- <br /> <br /> <br />butory effort toward ultimately more complete analysis of the climate of the <br /> <br />State of Colorado, and therefore they would have use beyond the particular studies <br /> <br /> <br />being proposed here. <br /> <br />In order to expand the work of punching cards for all precipitation stations, <br /> <br />particularly relevant to the Upper Colorado River Basin, selected stations should <br /> <br />be added to the record from the three additional states of the Upper Basin. <br />