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Approach and Results <br />1. Identify Key Long Term NOAA Climate Stations <br />A "key climate station" will be defined based on the following criteria, developed through <br />engineering judgment and cooperation with the State: <br />Key Climate Station -Climate Station located within the Arkansas Basin or Republican <br />Basin study area with records available from HydroBase and: <br />^ At least 70 percent complete in both monthly average temperature and total precipitation <br />throughout the SPDSS study period (1950-2003), or <br />^ At a location that adequately represents irrigated acreage and variations in climate <br />throughout the Arkansas and Republic River Basins. <br />Key climate stations were selected based on long-term periods of record and location within the <br />basin using the following approach: <br />L Monthly total precipitation and average temperature data for NOAA climate stations <br />stored in HydroBase were extracted using the TSTooI Data Management Interface <br />(DMI). <br />2. The percent complete for the 1950 through 2003 SPDSS study period was determined for <br />each climate station using the TSTooI "Data Limits Summary" report. <br />3. The CDSS Climate Station GIS coverage was reviewed to verify that the subset of <br />climate stations provided adequate spatial coverage to represent agricultural areas for the <br />crop consumptive use analysis. <br />The key climate station names and associated data are summarized below in Table 1 for the <br />Arkansas Basin and in Table 2 for the Republican River Basin (sorted alphabetically). The <br />locations of the key climate stations are shown in Figure 1. <br />Task 76 8 2.doc 2 of 17 <br />