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Los Angeles area station list

Entries show station weight (percent), station latitude (degrees N), station longitude (degrees E), and station name for each of the stations in the index.

  1  0.66 34.148 -118.144 PASADENA           
  2  0.96 34.005 -118.414 CULVER CITY        
  3  1.26 33.938 -118.389 LOS ANGELES INTL AP
  4  1.45 34.182 -118.138 ALTADENA           
  5  1.68 34.106 -118.100 SAN GABRIEL FIRE DE
  6  1.86 34.051 -118.235 LOS ANGELES DWTN US
  7  2.68 33.812 -118.146 LONG BCH DAUGHERTY 
  8  2.92 33.602 -117.880 NEWPORT BEACH HARBO
  9  3.40 34.588 -118.094 PALMDALE           
 10  4.65 33.744 -117.867 SANTA ANA FIRE STN 
 11  5.59 34.705 -118.424 FAIRMONT           
 12  5.60 34.744 -118.724 SANDBERG           
 13  5.92 34.008 -118.490 SANTA MONICA PIER  
 14  6.42 34.053 -117.189 REDLANDS           
 15  6.62 33.951 -117.388 RIVERSIDE FIRE STN 
 16  8.29 34.833 -118.865 LEBEC              
 17  9.12 34.231 -118.071 MT WILSON CBS      
 18  9.18 34.426 -119.843 SANTA BARBARA MUNI 
 19 10.41 34.092 -117.881 COVINA CITY YRD FC3
 20 11.36 34.329 -118.401 PACOIMA DAM FC33A-E

The station weight is the product of two terms. 1) the fraction of area the station represents in the total area of interest. So, for example, a station that is located near to another station will have less influence on the final total, while a station that is far from any other station will have more influence. 2) The average annual precipitation at that station, so that a wet station contributes more to the final index that does a dry station. The final weight is the product of these two terms, normalized so that the sum of all the weights adds up to 100%.

Stations are selected based on two criteria. 1) They must have a relatively long (50 year or more) record with few interruptions. 2) They must be updated nearly every day by the California Nevada River Forecast Center.

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