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  Website: www.uvm.edu/femc

Using methods like those used to make snow at ski areas, researchers successfully created ice glaze on tree branches (remarkably similar to conditions during the Northeast’s 1998 Ice Storm) over a large northern hardwood forest area. This novel experimental tool will allow scientists to study controlled icing events of different intensity and frequency in different forest types. Researchers also held a workshop with ecosystem scientists, climatologists, physical scientists, computer modelers, social scientists, and industry experts to define the state-of- knowledge on ice storms and examine the nature and extent of these storms in the Northeast. In addition, they developed machine-learning algorithms which allow computer models to identify unique ice storm climatology in past weather systems to better predict ice storms in the future.

• dataset_eml_attributelistlabel: basket

• dataset_eml_attributelistdescription: Basket ID Number

• dataset_eml_attributeliststoragetype: int

• dataset_eml_attributelistmeasurementtype: nominal

• dataset_eml_attributelistlabel: g_C_m2

• dataset_eml_attributelistdescription: Calculated carbon weight

• dataset_eml_attributeliststoragetype: decimal

• dataset_eml_attributelistmeasurementtype: ratio
• dataset_eml_attributelistprecision: 0.1
• Unit: gram
• dataset_eml_attributelistnumbertype: real

• dataset_eml_attributelistlabel: g_per_basket

• dataset_eml_attributelistdescription: Weight in basket

• dataset_eml_attributeliststoragetype: decimal

• dataset_eml_attributelistmeasurementtype: ratio
• dataset_eml_attributelistprecision: 0.1
• Unit: gram
• dataset_eml_attributelistnumbertype: real

• dataset_eml_attributelistlabel: g_per_m2

• dataset_eml_attributelistdescription: Weight after oven dried

• dataset_eml_attributeliststoragetype: decimal

• dataset_eml_attributelistmeasurementtype: ratio
• dataset_eml_attributelistprecision: 0.1
• Unit: gram
• dataset_eml_attributelistnumbertype: rational

• dataset_eml_attributelistlabel: plot

• dataset_eml_attributelistdescription: Plot Number

• dataset_eml_attributeliststoragetype: int

• dataset_eml_attributelistmeasurementtype: nominal

• Fine Litter Calculation
  • dataset_eml_methoddescription: Baskets were left in the field for 9 days and all fine litter less than 2 cm diameter that accumulated in the baskets was collected. After the experiment, baskets in the treated plots were placed in plastic bags and transported to the laboratory where they were stored at room temperature until the ice and snow that accumulated in the baskets melted. The remaining fine litter in the basket was then oven-dried at 60 °C for 24 h and weighed. The amount of carbon in fine litter was assumed to be 50% of the oven dry mass.