Monitoring Data

Purpose

Timpanogos Cave National Monument collects a large variety of data to assess the health of its resources. This website was created to encourage cooperation with universities, businesses, and other parks to increase our understanding of how to properly manage our monument’s resources.


Cami Pulham collecting drip rate readings	TMP/rH variation when cave closes

Cave Monitoring Data

Name	Description	Size	Type	Updated
2006 Cave TMP/rH	This data is the in-progress collection of temperature and relative humidity monitoring stations for 2005. The data includes 6 HOBO Pro dataloggers from throughout the cave system and a HOBO weather station. Temperature and relative humidity readings are recorded every 15 minutes.	3.3 MB	Excel .xls	10/16/2006 Updated Biannually
2005 Cave TMP/rH 2004 Cave TMP/rH 2003 Cave TMP/rH 2002 Cave TMP/rH 2001 Cave TMP/rH	This data is a completed collection of temperature and relative humidity monitoring stations for the Timpanogos Cave. The data includes 6 HOBO Pro dataloggers from throughout the cave system and a HOBO weather station. Temperature and relative humidity readings are recorded every 15 minutes.	3.4 MB 3.7 MB 3.9 MB 3.7 MB 2.3 MB	Excel .xls	5/31/2006 2/31/2005 5/05/2004 4/29/2004 4/29/2004
Cave TMP/rH 2000-1991	A collection temperature and relative humidity data collected every 2 hours by a Campbell Scientific network from 2000-1991.	1.1 MB	Excel .xls	2/23/2003
Drip Rates	Drip rates collected using HOBO event loggers in 3 locations throughout the cave system.	133 KB	Excel .xls	11/13/2003
Manual Drip Rates - Drip Rate Locations	A collection of weekly to monthly readings of manually collected drip rates and lake levels. These readings have been taken since 1990 until present.	69 KB – 1.5 MB	.xls .pdf	11/18/2002 Updated Monthly
Cave Visitation Statistics	Data showing the daily sales of each cave tour recorded as sold at the VC and as taking taken in at the cave. The data exists from 2000 to 2005.	513 KB	Excel .xls	1/23/2006 Updated Seasonally
Water Quality	Water quality data collected from selected locations throughout the cave.	7 KB	Excel .xls	10/22/2003

Weather Station Data

Name	Description	Size	Type	Updated
Picnic Point	A HOBO weather station installed in August 2002 on Picnic Point about 300 ft from the entrance to Timpanogos Cave. Station elevation is about 6685 ft. The station records air temperature, relative humidity, ground temperature, atmospheric pressure, wind speed, wind gust, and precipitation every 15 minutes. Data includes cave monitoring data for comparison.	1.4 MB	Excel .xls	11/8/2004 Updated Biannually
Cave Watershed 2002-present	A Campbell Scientific weather station installed in 1991 on the plateau about 1300 ft above the Timpanogos Cave entrance. Station elevation is about 8025 ft. The station records air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, wind gust, wind direction, precipitation, and snow depth every hour. Visit a live feed of the last two days of data automatically updated every 6 hours.	872 KB	Excel .xls	10/20/2005 Updated Monthly
Cave Watershed 1991-2000?	This is historic data set for Cave Watershed Weather Station. The date fields are inconsistent.	840 KB	Excel .xls	10/22/2003
Lone Peak	A Campbell Scientific weather station installed in August of 2002 a short distance up the road across from the Visitors Center. Station elevation is about 5735 ft. The station records air temperature, relative humidity, and precipitation every 15 minutes. This data contains monthly and daily averages, maximums, and minimums.	76 KB	Excel .xls	11/14/2006 Updated Monthly
2007 Weather Stations	This file is active dataset of the 3 weather stations within the monument for the year 2005.	0.9 MB	Excel .xls	2/5/2007 Updated biannually
2006 Weather Stations 2005 Weather Stations 2004 Weather Stations 2003 Weather Stations	These files are the completed datasets of the 3 weather stations within the monument.	0.9 MB 1.4 MB 1.7 MB 1.6 MB	Excel .xls	2/05/2007 4/13/2006 1/20/2005 6/23/2004
Visitors Center	NOAA data for daily maximum and minimum temperatures and daily precipitation totals measured at across from the Visitor Center from 1948 to present. Update-to-date data is available from NOAA for a fee. To view data and climate graphs visit Western Regional Climate Center	n/a	ASCII .dat	Updated Monthly

Maintained by Cami Pulham - last updated April 10, 2007.