This directory contains observed and model data from the paper 
"Spatial Variability of Seasonal Extreme Precipitation in the Western United States"

Please contact Cameron Bracken (cameron.bracken@colorado.edu) with any questions.

ghcn_3day_max_west_us.csv
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Contains observed seasonal 3-day maxima data computed from GHCN daily data. 
This is a utf8 encoded csv file. The following is the first five rows of the data:

        station season maxday year  max    maxdate     lat       lon elevation state 
 1: CA001010720   fall      3 1948 1105 1948-11-28 48.5000 -124.0000     351.0      
 2: CA001010720   fall      3 1949 2731 1949-11-25 48.5000 -124.0000     351.0      
 3: CA001010720   fall      3 1950 1605 1950-10-08 48.5000 -124.0000     351.0      
 4: CA001010720   fall      3 1951 1362 1951-11-27 48.5000 -124.0000     351.0      
 5: CA001010720   fall      3 1952  899 1952-10-29 48.5000 -124.0000     351.0      

                               name       date shift jday  n
 1: BEAR CREEK                      1948-11-28     0   88 61
 2: BEAR CREEK                      1949-11-25     0   85 61
 3: BEAR CREEK                      1950-10-08     0   37 61
 4: BEAR CREEK                      1951-11-27     0   87 61
 5: BEAR CREEK                      1952-10-29     0   58 61


rain_trajectories_3day.db
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This file is a sqlite database containing trajectory data computed with HYSPLIT. 
For each station, 100 trajectories are available which had the greatest 
loss in specefic humidity during the event period. 

The database is readable by any sqlite compatible program or library such as 
RSQLite. The database has a table "trajectories" which has the following format:

sqlite> .schema trajectories
CREATE TABLE trajectories 
( "group" TEXT,
	trajectory INTEGER,
	grid_num INTEGER,
	"year" INTEGER,
	"month" INTEGER,
	"day" INTEGER,
	"hour" INTEGER,
	"minute" INTEGER,
	fc_hour INTEGER,
	age REAL,
	lat REAL,
	lon REAL,
	height REAL,
	pressure REAL,
	sphu REAL,
	station TEXT,
	season TEXT,
	end_height REAL,
	loss REAL 
);
CREATE INDEX "idx_age" on trajectories(age);
CREATE INDEX "idx_station" on trajectories(station);