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Mountain Lakes Wilderness Area |
(Also see Crater Lake National Park)
Site Name
IMPROVE:
CRLA1 (Crater Lake National Park)
Region
Cascade Range
Terrain
Terrain is shown in the 2 km terrain map and the 20 km terrain map.
The Mountain Lakes Wilderness Area is a relatively small (23,071 acres)
Class 1 Area in southern Oregon, 50 km (30 mi) south of
Crater Lake National Park. It
consists of several peaks with a highest elevation of 2,502 m (8,208 ft) at
the crest of Aspen Butte. Lowest elevations are near 1,500 m (5,000 ft).
Primary drainages are Varney Creek and Moss Creek that flow into the Upper
Klamath Lake, 3 km northeast of the Wilderness boundary.
The IMPROVE site representing Mountain Lakes Wilderness Area is CLRA1,
located in Crater Lake National Park.
It is 50 km to the north with mountainous intervening terrain. CLRA1 is
described in the Meteorological Description Page for Crater Lake National
Park.
Representativeness
The CLRA1 IMPROVE site should be representative of aerosol characteristics
in the Mountain Lakes Wilderness Area during periods of uniform regional
haze resulting from regional forest fire events or transport from distant
source regions. Small local sources impacting Mountain Lakes Wilderness will
probably not be evident in CLRA1 data.
Nearby Population/Industrial Centers and Local Sources
See the Crater Lake National Park Meteorological Description Page.
Nearby Meteorological Data Stations
See the Crater Lake National Park Meteorological Description Page for
discussion of nearby meteorological data sites most representative of
meteorological conditions concurrent with data from CRLA1.
Wind and Transport Patterns
See the Meteorological Description Page for
Crater Lake National Park.
Inversions/Trapping
Mountain Lakes Wilderness Area is not as susceptible to wintertime surface
inversions as Crater Lake National Park. Otherwise, the Meteorological
Description Page for Crater Lake National Park is applicable.
Climatological Statistics
Crater Lake
Climate data from Crater Lake National Park Headquarters gives long term
climate statistics for Crater Lake, excluding wind statistics. Conditions at
Mountain Lakes Wilderness Area should be similar.
Medford Oregon
Normals Means and Extremes are representative of lower elevations in the
Rogue River valley. Other
Oregon Climate
Summaries and
Northern California Climate Summaries are available from the
Western Regional Climate Center.
Keywords
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Last updated 9 December 2004
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