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Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park

Daily park-wide climate series from 1980 to 2025, reduced from DAYMET v4 + ERA5-Land over the real PAD-US 4.1 park boundary.

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Annual mean temperature · 1980–2025
Cooler than 1981–2010 baseline Near baseline Warmer than 1981–2010 baseline
19802025

Headline trends

Theil–Sen slope estimates with Mann–Kendall p-values. Trends marked ✓ are statistically significant at the 95% level.

Mean temperature
+0.076°F / yr significant
Total +3.43 °F since 1980 · p < 0.001
Maximum temperature
+0.058°F / yr significant
Total +2.62 °F since 1980 · p < 0.001
Minimum temperature
+0.137°F / yr significant
Total +6.18 °F since 1980 · p < 0.001
Precipitation
-1.89mm / yr² not sig.
Total -85.08 mm since 1980 · p = 0.066

Time series & trends

Every variable in the dataset, with its Theil–Sen slope and Mann–Kendall p-value. Click any row to open the annual time series, a 12-month rolling trend (long-term direction without the annual cycle), and a togglable seasonal climatology for three 15-year periods so the shift in seasonal pattern is visible.

Mean temperature +0.076 °F / yr +3.43 p < 0.001 sig.

Annual mean of daily mean near-surface temperature.

Annual mean temperature (°F) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle
Maximum temperature +0.058 °F / yr +2.62 p < 0.001 sig.

Annual mean of daily maximum near-surface temperature.

Annual maximum temperature (°F) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle
Minimum temperature +0.137 °F / yr +6.18 p < 0.001 sig.

Annual mean of daily minimum near-surface temperature.

Annual minimum temperature (°F) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle
Precipitation -1.89 mm / yr² -85.08 p = 0.066 not sig.

Annual total precipitation.

Annual precipitation (mm / yr) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle
Actual evapotranspiration -1.92 mm / yr² -86.59 p < 0.001 sig.

Annual total actual evapotranspiration (ERA5-Land).

Annual actual evapotranspiration (mm / yr) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle
Potential evapotranspiration +24.70 mm / yr² +1111.70 p < 0.001 sig.

Annual total potential evapotranspiration (ERA5-Land).

Annual potential evapotranspiration (mm / yr) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle
Snow cover -0.17 % / yr -7.85 p = 0.032 sig.

Mean daily snow-cover fraction.

Annual snow cover (%) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle
Snow depth (water-equivalent) -1.28 mm / yr -57.79 p = 0.069 not sig.

Mean daily snow depth expressed as water equivalent.

Annual snow depth (water-equivalent) (mm) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle
Snowfall (water-equivalent) -1.47 mm / yr² -66.08 p = 0.001 sig.

Annual total water-equivalent snowfall.

Annual snowfall (water-equivalent) (mm / yr) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle
Snowmelt -1.45 mm / yr² -65.40 p = 0.012 sig.

Annual total snowmelt.

Annual snowmelt (mm / yr) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle
Shortwave radiation -0.30 W/m² / yr -13.01 p = 0.005 sig.

Mean daily downwelling shortwave radiation.

Annual shortwave radiation (W/m²) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle
Snow-water equivalent -0.27 mm / yr -11.99 p = 0.029 sig.

Mean daily snow-water equivalent.

Annual snow-water equivalent (mm) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle
Vapour pressure +1.8 Pa / yr +80.65 p = 0.020 sig.

Mean daily near-surface water-vapour pressure.

Annual vapour pressure (Pa) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle
Wind speed +0.001 m/s / yr +0.07 p = 0.005 sig.

Mean daily 10-m wind speed.

Annual wind speed (m/s) (Theil–Sen)
Long-term trend (12-month rolling)
Seasonal cycle

Download the data

Everything is open-licensed (MIT). The first two buttons fetch just this park; the third pulls the bulk daily CSV archive from Zenodo, which contains the raw daily series for all 63 parks (≈150 MB).

JSON · this park Summary JSON Annual + seasonal aggregates, MK / Theil–Sen trends, monthly decomposition, climate stripes. GeoJSON · this park Boundary GeoJSON PAD-US 4.1 proclamation polygon, dissolved, simplified to 50 m, in WGS84. Zenodo · all 63 parks Daily CSVs (bulk, ~150 MB) Raw 1980–2025 daily series for every park, gzipped. Use nps.fetch_daily("black-canyon-of-the-gunnison") if you only want this one — see the Data page.

Cite this park

Britton, A., & Pritchard, I. (2026). Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park climate series, in NPS Open Climate Data v1.0.0 [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19823584