Appalachians

Forest watershed management, water yield, and climate change

May 24, 2019 / Lab news, Meetings / By

Charley presented a poster this week on our Coweeta Water Yield project at the 8th North American Forest Ecology Workshop held in Roanoke, VA.  She presented results from a modeling study where we investigated how forest management and climate change may interact to cause unexpected changes in water yield.  The extensive datasets from the paired watershed studies …

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Orographic thunderstorm systems in the central Appalachians

May 24, 2019 / Research paper / By

Some of the largest rainfall accumulations in the world have observed have been in the central Appalachian region.  A new paper that came out this week in Water Resources Research characterizes features that lead to these large orographic/convective storms that occur predominantly during the summer. Complex interactions between topography and storm dynamics are not well …

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