Infilled daily precipitation data for D1 chart recorder, 1952 - ongoing.

Precipitation data have been collected at the D1 climate station
(3739 m asl) almost continuously from 1952 to the present. D1 is on
a narrow, exposed ridge on the westernmost part of Niwot Ridge, 2.6
km east of and ca. 200 m lower in elevation than the Continental
Divide. Surrounding vegetation is low-stature alpine tundra. Through
1969, precipitation was recorded using an unshielded U.S. Weather
Bureau standard totalizing gauge, with observations manually
recorded on an approximately weekly basis. Starting in 1965, daily
precipitation has been recorded using a Belford weighing-bucket
gauge with chart recorder and with an Alter-type shield encircled by
a Wyoming-snow fence. Overlap in the two records was used to adjust
the totalizing gauge record so that it could be merged with the
weighing-bucket gauge record (see Methods). Missing daily data were
infilled and multiday records were parsed to dailies (see Methods).