Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

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

Abstract

    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.

People

  • John Campbell: Principal Investigator

  • Wally Shortle: Content Provider

  • Paul Schaberg: Content Provider

  • Lindsay Rustad: Principal Investigator

Organizations

  • Northeastern States Research Cooperative : funder
  • United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service Northern Research Station: lead

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    Data Table

    • Title: Ice Thickness (caliper)
    • Start Date: 2010-12-01
    • End Date: 2011-04-01
    • Description: 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

    • Purpose:

    • Condensed Title: Z1108_2499_3OGR01

    • Object Name: VMC.1108.2499

    • Data Type: mySQL
    • Citation: 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

    • Online Distribution: https://vmc.w3.uvm.edu/vmcdevel/data/archive/project/experimental-ice-glazing/dataset/ice-storm-ice-thickness-caliper

    Attribute List

      Attribute Name: caliper_radial_ice_thickness_
      • Label: caliper_radial_ice_thickness_
      • Description: Measurement of ice thickness
      • Storage Type: decimal
      • Measurment Type: ratio
      • Precision: 0.1
      • Unit: milimeter
      • Number Type: real
      Attribute Name: ornament
      • Label: ornament
      • Description: Dowel Number
      • Storage Type: int
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      Attribute Name: plot
      • Label: plot
      • Description: Plot Number
      • Storage Type: int
      • Measurment Type: nominal

    Methods

    • Current Methods
      • Ice Thickness Caliper Measurement
        • Method Description: On each dowel, ice thickness was measured with calipers in six places (36 measurements per device)
          • Instrumentation: Caliper and Dowel


    Sampling Equipment

    • No sampling equipment recorded for this dataset

    Site Characteristics

    • No site characteristics recorded for this dataset