Daily precipitation data for Pico Roncador, Río Tanamá and La Mira stations, Puerto Rico, March 2009 to March 2011
Dates
Publication Date
2017
Start Date
2009-03
End Date
2011-03
Citation
Rodríguez-Martínez, Jesús, Santiago, Marilyn, 2017, Hydrologic data for the effects of forest cover on base flow of streams in the mountainous interior of Puerto Rico: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7N58JG5.
Summary
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, completed a study to determine whether a relation exists between the extent of forest cover and the magnitude of base flow at two sets of paired drainage basins in the highlands of the municipalities of Adjuntas and Utuado within the mountainous interior of Puerto Rico. One set of paired basins includes the Río Guaónica and Río Tanamá, both tributaries of the Río Grande de Arecibo. The other set includes two smaller basins in the drainage basin of the Río Coabey, which is a tributary of the Río Tanamá. The paired basins in each set have similar rainfall patterns, geologic substrate, and aspect; the principal difference [...]
Summary
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, completed a study to determine whether a relation exists between the extent of forest cover and the magnitude of base flow at two sets of paired drainage basins in the highlands of the municipalities of Adjuntas and Utuado within the mountainous interior of Puerto Rico. One set of paired basins includes the Río Guaónica and Río Tanamá, both tributaries of the Río Grande de Arecibo. The other set includes two smaller basins in the drainage basin of the Río Coabey, which is a tributary of the Río Tanamá. The paired basins in each set have similar rainfall patterns, geologic substrate, and aspect; the principal difference identified in the study is the extent of forest cover and related land uses such as the cultivation of shade and sun coffee. Data describing the hydrology, hydrogeology, and streamflow were used in the analysis. The principal objective of the study was to compare base flow per unit area among basins having different areal extents of forest cover and land uses such as shade coffee and sun coffee cultivation.
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Rodríguez-Martínez, Jesús, and Santiago, Marilyn, 2017, The effects of forest cover on base flow of streams in the mountainous interior of Puerto Rico, 2010: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2016–5142, 19 p.,https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20165142.
Comma Separated Values (CSV) File format of the daily precipitation data used for the study at 3 stations: Pico Roncador, Río Tanamá and La Mira. Rainfall stations were installed as part of this study at different altitudes to account for the spatial variation in rainfall within the two sets of paired basins: Pico Roncador meteorological station at 2,952 ft; Río Tanamá rainfall station at 1,870 ft; and La Mira rainfall station at 1,800 ft. The data corresponds to March 2009 to March 2011
