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Climate change is projected to cause earlier and less snowmelt, potentially reducing water availability for terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and for municipal and agricultural water supplies. However, if forested landscapes can be managed to retain snow longer, some of these environmental and financial impacts may be mitigated. Results from our research team demonstrate that in the Pacific Northwest (PNW), opening dense forest canopies through creating forest gaps will generally lead to more snow accumulation and later melt (i.e., up to 13 weeks later). However, under certain conditions, such as locations on ridges with high wind speeds and sunny south-facing slopes, the snow that accumulated in the forest is...
Categories: Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2014,
CASC,
Completed,
Data Visualization & Tools,
Data Visualization & Tools, All tags...
Forests,
Forests,
Landscapes,
Landscapes,
Northwest,
Northwest,
Northwest,
Northwest CASC,
Other Water,
Projects by Region,
Science Tools for Managers,
Science Tools for Managers,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
forest,
management,
snow,
snow retention,
watershed analysis, Fewer tags
This project links climate, hydrological, and ecological changes over the next 30 years in a Great Basin watershed. In recent years, climate variability on annual and decadal time scales has been recognized as greater than commonly perceived with increasing impacts on ecosystems and available water resources. Changes in vegetation distribution, composition and productivity resulting from climate change affect plant water use, which in turn can alter stream flow, groundwater and eventually available water resources. To better understand these links, project researchers implemented two computer-based numeric models in the Cleve Creek watershed in the Schell Creek Range, east of Ely, Nevada. The application of the...
Categories: Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2013,
CASC,
Cleve Creek,
Climate,
Completed, All tags...
Drought,
Drought,
Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather,
Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather,
Federal,
Great Basin,
Landscapes,
Landscapes,
NV,
Other Landscapes,
Other Landscapes,
Pinyon/Juniper,
Plants,
Plants,
Projects by Region,
Rivers, Streams and Lakes,
Rivers, Streams and Lakes,
Southwest,
Southwest CASC,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
Wildlife and Plants,
Wildlife and Plants,
carbon flux,
desert shrub,
downscale,
drought,
ecology,
evaporation,
gcm,
great basin,
hydrology,
lai,
maps,
model,
phenology,
plants,
pluvial,
population growth,
precipitation,
productivity,
rhessys,
sage brush,
snow,
soil moisture,
temperature,
transpiration,
vegetation,
water, Fewer tags
Northern Arizona University will build upon the U.S. Forest Service Four Forest Restoration Initiative in Northern Arizona to investigate how restoration efforts can affect the water volume available in the snowpack and soil moisture in the Desert LCC. This project will result in a tool that can be used to predict the water volume in snowpack and soil moisture response to various forest treatments.
Categories: Data,
Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2013,
AL-04,
AZ-01,
Academics & scientific researchers,
Applications and Tools, All tags...
Arizona,
Centennial Forest,
Coconino National Forest,
Conservation NGOs,
Conservation Planning,
Data Acquisition and Development,
Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative,
EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT,
Federal resource managers,
Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) area,
GIS,
GIS,
Gus Pearson Natural Area,
Informing Conservation Delivery,
LCC,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Presentation,
Project,
Publication,
Report,
Training/Outreach/Workshop,
Tribes,
United States,
Verde River Basin,
biota,
climate change,
climate change,
completed,
forest management,
forest management,
forest structure,
forest structure,
forest thinning,
forest thinning,
onGoing,
ponderosa pine forests,
ponderosa pine forests,
remote sensing,
remote sensing,
restoration,
restoration,
snow,
snow,
snowpack,
snowpack,
soil moisture,
soil moisture,
water,
water,
wildfire,
wildfire, Fewer tags
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