Experimental Ice Glazing in a Northern Hardwood Forest to Understand Ecological Impacts of Ice Storms: Ice Thickness (caliper)
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- Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative
- Address:
705 Spear Street
South Burlington, Vermont 05403
United States of America
Phone: (802) 391-4135
Email: femc@uvm.edu
Website: www.uvm.edu/femc
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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.
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- John Campbell: dataset_eml_peopleprincipleinvestigator
- Wally Shortle: dataset_eml_peoplecontentprovider
- Paul Schaberg: dataset_eml_peoplecontentprovider
- Lindsay Rustad: dataset_eml_peopleprincipleinvestigator
► Organizations
- Northeastern States Research Cooperative : funder
- United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service Northern Research Station: lead
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- dataset_eml_datatabletitle: Ice Thickness (caliper)
- dataset_eml_datatablestartdate: 2010-12-01
- dataset_eml_datatableendate: 2011-04-01
- dataset_eml_datatabledescription: Ice that accumulated on branches is reported as equivalent radial ice thickness, which is the thickness of ice that would be measured if the actual ice accretion on a branch was of uniform thickness
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- dataset_eml_datatablecitation: Rustad and Campbel (2018) Ice Storm Ice Thickness (caliper). Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative. Available online at: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/experimental-ice-glazing/dataset/ice-storm-ice-thickness-caliper
- dataset_eml_datatableonlinedistribution: https://vmc.w3.uvm.edu/vmcdevel/CI4/data/archive/project/experimental-ice-glazing/dataset/ice-storm-ice-thickness-caliper
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- dataset_eml_attributelistname: caliper_radial_ice_thickness_
- dataset_eml_attributelistlabel: caliper_radial_ice_thickness_
- dataset_eml_attributelistdescription: Measurement of ice thickness
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- dataset_eml_attributelistmeasurementtype: ratio
- dataset_eml_attributelistprecision: 0.1
- Unit: milimeter
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- dataset_eml_attributelistdescription: Dowel Number
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- Ice Thickness Caliper Measurement
- dataset_eml_methoddescription: On each dowel, ice thickness was measured with calipers in six places (36 measurements per device) dataset_eml_methodsInstrumentation: Caliper and Dowel
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