Dataset description: Rain measurements in Santa Cruz County, California, January 2023

Rain gages were deployed temporarily at four sites in Santa Cruz County, California, during a series of atmospheric-river storms that delivered unusually large amounts of rain in January 2023. Data collection focused on the San Lorenzo River, and include three locations in the San Lorenzo Valley (in Boulder Creek along Hilton Drive, in Felton near Glengarry Road, and in Scotts Valley along Green Valley Road), as well as one site within the city of Santa Cruz, on Darwin Street. These data are provided to facilitate emergency response and assessment of continued landscape effects of these storms.

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Keywords	precipitation (atmospheric)
Data types	Meteorology
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Contacts

Contact	Amy East PCMSC_data@usgs.gov

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Location of materials and files

Public files	https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/file/get/63cc3a5fd34e06fef14fb965 https://doi.org/10.5066/P95YN9HE
Metadata	https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/metadata/pcmsc/DataReleases/ScienceBase/DR_P95YN9HE/SantaCruz_RainGage_Jan2023_Metadata.xml Outline - Questions and answers - Text - XML

Activities and equipment

Activity	Equipment
2023-605-FA	Onset HOBO RG3-M Rain Gauge The Data Logging Rain Gauge is a battery-powered rainfall data collection and recording system which includes a HOBO® Pendant Event data logger integrated into a tipping-bucket rain gauge. This model automatically records up to 3200 mm of rainfall data that can be used to determine rainfall rates, times and duration.