• 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

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.

• Label: ornament

• Description: Device made of 6 dowels

• Storage Type: int

• Measurment Type: nominal

• Label: plot

• Description: Plot Number

• Storage Type: int

• Measurment Type: nominal

• Label: water_volume_radial_ice_thickness

• Storage Type: decimal

• Measurment Type: ratio
• Precision: 0.1
• Unit: milimeter
• Number Type: real

• Ice Thickness
  • Method Description: The dowels were placed in plastic bags and transported to the laboratory where the ice melted off at room temperature. The volume of meltwater from each dowel was measured and applied to the following equation: Req=-D/2+√((D^2/4+V/(πρ_i L)) )

• Dowels used to measure ice thickness
• Sampling Description: Measurements of Req were made with a passive device constructed of six dowels coupled together with a six-way PVC connecter. Each of the dowels was 30 cm long and 2.86 cm diameter and they were oriented on the three cardinal axes (X,Y,Z)