DEVISE Documentation

Overview

DEVISE is a tool built to summarize gridded weather and phenology data for spatial layers in the intermountain western USA.

DEVISE Coverage area

It calculates the average weather or phenology variable (e.g., temperature, precipitation, snow depth) for each time period — annual, monthly, or daily — across a selected spatial layer (like a hunt unit or national park), and displays the results in a graph.

Because some datasets include overlapping variables (e.g., both Daymet and SNODAS provide snow depth), we organize the data into four broad categories:

  • Phenology
  • Precipitation
  • Snow
  • Temperature

How You Can Use DEVISE

There are three main ways to use DEVISE:

  1. Use pre-loaded spatial layers (e.g., national parks, hunt areas) to review data from an area of interest
  2. Select a point on the map to review data from that location

For more in-depth information view our DEVISE User Guide

Dataset context & Variable Summaries

DEVISE currently includes four key datasets from national or federated sources. See the links below for a summary of each dataset, the variables included, derivations, and sources.

Additional derived variable

NASA SRTM data

(To be incorporated in DEVISE App)