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<br />TABLE XVII. --Climax stepwise multiple correlation <br />coefficients and variances explained by 8 stations located <br />over the northern and central Colorado Rockies. Sample <br />consists of 545 daily precipitation amounts for the <br />period November - Apri,l. <br /> <br /> Increment of <br /> Multiple Carr. Total Variance Explained Explained Variance <br />Winter Park .7332 .5375 .5375 <br />Aspen .7926 .6282 .0907 <br />Crested Butte .8019 .6430 .0147 <br />Eagle .8043 .6469 .0039 <br />Grand Lake 6SSW .8060 .6496 .0027 <br />Shoshone .8070 .6513 .0017 <br />Fraser .8074 .6518 .0006 <br />Marvine .8077 .6523 .0005 <br /> <br />TABLE XVIII. --Wolf Creek Summit stepwise multiple correlation coefficients <br />and variances explained by 13 stations located over southern Colorado and <br />extreme northern New Mexico. Sample consists of 379 daily precipitation days <br />for period November - April. <br /> <br /> Multiple Total Variance Increment of <br /> Correlation Explained Explained Variance <br />Durango .6684 .4468 .4468 <br />Ouray .7096 .5036 .0568 <br />Fort Lewis .7201 .5185 .0150 <br />Telluride .7262 .5274 .0089 <br />Farmington, N.M. .7317 .5354 .0080 <br />Powderhorn .7347 .5398 .0045 <br />Rico .7363 .5421 .0023 <br />Bloomfie ld .7369 .5430 .0009 <br />Ignacio .7378 .5444 .0014 <br />Placerville .7387 .5456 .0012 <br />Mancos .7395 .5468 .0012 <br />Mesa Verde .7406 .5485 .0017 <br />Dulce, N. M. .7408 .5487 .0002 <br /> <br />e. Diurnal patterns of temperature during periods <br />of precipitation <br />If the precipitation mecna.ni,sm within <br />the cloud mass is subject to strong variations based <br />on temperature, the daily fluctuation in temperature <br />at high elevation stations may furnish some indication <br />9f the corresponding temperature change taking <br />place within the clouds only a few hundred feet <br />higher. <br /> <br />A study has been made of the relation- <br />ship between daily temperatures as shown by maxi- <br />mum and rninimum temperatures at Jones Pass, <br />Sugarloaf Reservoir, Leadville, and Berthoud Pass <br /> <br />with the hourly precipitation at Climax. The seven- <br />month daily average range of temperatures <br />between minimum and maximum, ::It thcSG mountain <br />stations, November through May, is from 200 to <br />290 F. This includes the daily range on both clear <br />and cloudy days. Although snowy days have con- <br />siderably less temperature range than clear days, <br />daily temperature fluctuations between 100 and 150 <br />were quite common even during times of precipitation. <br /> <br />Figure 35 illustrates daily tempera- <br />ture ranges which prevailed under continuous heavy <br />precipitation conditions at Climax. Only diffuse <br />solar radiation would have been pOSSible at the earth's <br /> <br />51 <br />