North Platte - Monitoring Effects of Weather_Climate Center Evapotrnspiration in North Platte - Application.

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Water Supply Reserve Account -Grant Application Form Form Revised May 2007 5. Please summarize the proposed scope of work. Please refer to Part 2 of the Criteria and Guidance document for detailed requirements. On the following page there is an example format for the Scope of Work. You can use the example format or your own format, provided that comparable information is included. The scope of work should outline by task how the water activity will be accomplished. It is important that the scope of work detail the specific steps, activities/procedures that will be followed to accomplish the water activity and the specific products/deliverables that will be accomplished. The scope of work should include but not be limited to: task description, key personnel, budget, schedule and deliverables and the final report/project documentation upon completion of the water activity. Scope of Work The Colorado Climate Center at Colorado State University will work the North Platte Basin Roundtable and the Citizens of North Park to monitor evapotranspiration inrepresentative areas of the basin to provide consistent and quantitative data for assessing consumptive use from hay meadow irrigation. We will establish and maintain for 5 years a network of three automated weather stations equipped for the purpose of monitoring weather conditions on an hourly and daily basis. From these data, estimates of evapotranspiration from irrigated hay meadow environments will be computed and displayed. In addition, ten "atmometers," simple instruments that directly measure evapotranspiration, will be distributed to cooperators across the basin to monitor ET from a broader and more diverse range of locations and conditions. All data collected in the North Platte Basin will be available, accessible and public and will be provided and updated on a daily basis on the Colorado Climate Center website - httpal ccc.atmos.colostate.edu. The following tasks and actions will be performed to accomplish this work: Task 1) Meet with NPB Roundtable representatives at the beginning of the project to begin identifying optimal sites for ET monitoring. Set goals for data display and distribution. Also identify list of potential cooperators for atmometer data collection and CoCoRaHS rain gauge measurements. Task 2) Acquire weather station hardware for three complete automated weather stations. (Work with CoAgMet team and Campbell Scientific from Logan, UT). Acquire 1 o atmometers, three automated and seven manual gauges. Task 3) Conduct site surveys and establish agreements with land owners to host weather stations. Task 4) Install, test and verify weather station operations -begin data collection. Task 5) Make modifications and upgrades to the COAGMET website to archive and display data from the North Platte Basin. Update station maps to show new stations. Add grass reference to the existing alfalfa reference evapotranspiration coding according the ASCE standardized methods. Task 6) Develop aWeb-based data entry form for precipitation and atmometer evapotranspiration data utilizing the infrastructure of CoCoRaHS (www.cocorahs.org). 7