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Title: Isohyetal Contours, Monterey County, California, 2001

Dates

• Issued: 2000
• Coverage: 2001

Publishers

• Monterey County (Calif.). Planning Department

Summary

This line shapefile contains isohyetal contours showing the average rainfall in inches per year for the Monterey County, California. Contours were mainly developed from countywide rainfall records collected by the Monterey County Water Resources Agency and in the area north of Salinas from research by the Santa Clara Valley Water District. This layer is part of a collection describing Geology resources and constraints Monterey County, California. The purpose of this data set is to aid in evaluating the countywide rainfall amounts, which in turn influence other processes such as aquifer recharge potential. Rosenberg, Lewis, I. (2001). Isohyetal Contours, Monterey County, California, 2001. Monterey County (Calif.) Planning Department. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/ms031ss5602. The intended resolution of this data set is 1:250,000. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

Subjects

• Aromas (Calif.)
• Big Sur (Calif.)
• Bolsa Knolls (Calif.)
• Bradley (Calif.)
• Cachagua Creek
• Carmel (Calif.)
• Carmel Highlands (Calif.)
• Carmel Valley (Calif.)
• Carmel Valley Village
• Castroville (Calif.)
• Del Rey Oaks (Calif.)
• Gonzales (Calif.)
• Greenfield (Calif.)
• Jamesburg (Calif.)
• Jolon (Calif.)
• King City (Calif.)
• Lockwood (Calif.)
• Lucia (Calif.)
• Marina (Calif.)
• Monterey (Calif.)
• Monterey County (Calif.)
• Moss Landing Harbor (Calif.)
• Pacific Grove (Calif.)
• Pajaro (Calif.)
• Parkfield (Calif.)
• Pebble Beach (Calif.)
• Prunedale (Calif.)
• Salinas (Calif.)
• San Ardo (Calif.)
• San Lucas (Calif.)
• Sand City (Calif.)
• Seaside (Calif.)
• Soledad (Calif.)
• Spreckels (Calif.)
• Tassajara Hot Springs
• Contours (Cartography)
• Rainfall
• Climatology, Meteorology and Atmosphere
• Geoscientific Information
• Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

• Bounding Box: BBOX (-121.961875, -120.23413, 36.908485, 35.789103)
• Geometry: BBOX (-121.961875, -120.23413, 36.908485, 35.789103)

Provider

Stanford

Rights

• Access rights: Public

Citation

Rosenberg, Lewis I. Isohyetal Contours, Monterey County, California, 2001. Monterey County (Calif.). Planning Department. Line data. https://purl.stanford.edu/ms031ss5602

Format

Shapefile

Languages

• English