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Catalog of Long Term Research Conducted by the Northeastern Research Station

Catalog #74

Title:
Long -Term Monitoring of Meteorological Data
Objective: To continuously monitor data as recorded by automated weather stations placed in forests of West Virginia.
Year Established: 1951
Year Completed: expected to continue
Site Description: Fernow Experimental Forest, WV.; Monongahela National Forest, WV.: Clover Run and South Haddix.; USDA Forest Service Timber and Watershed Research Lab, Parsons, WV.
Statistical Design: Paired watershed approach with 4 weather recording stations at separate locations. NOTE: substudies may include more or fewer weather recording stations.
Likelihood of Locating Study Areas: 100%
Experimental Treatments: Substudies include varying degrees of treatment to the forests located on the monitored watersheds.
Sampling Methods: Recorders at weather stations continuously monitor the parameters. Charts on the recorders are changed weekly. Hygrothermographs and recording rain gages are special equipment used.
Variables and Sampling Frequency: Data were collected weekly on the following sites: 

Fernow Camp Hollow Station 
Daily precipitation (inches): 1951 to present
Continuous air temperature (deg F): 1951 to present 
Continuous relative humidity (%): 1951 to present

Clover Run Station 
Daily precipitation (inches): 1951 to present 
Continuous air temperature (deg F): 1959 to 1971 
Continuous relative humidity (%): 1959 to 1971

South Haddix Station
Daily precipitation (inches): 1984 to 1993 
Continuous air temperature (deg F): 1983 to 1993 
Continuous relative humidity (%): 1983 to 1993

Timber and Watershed Laboratory 
National Weather Service Station 
Daily precipitation (inches) 
Continuous air temperature (deg F) 
Continuous relative humidity (%)

QA/QC Practices: USDA and USGS protocols are followed.
Data Storage: Current raw and summarized data are stored on 9-track tape. The DG which can output to ASCII is used as backup.
Global Change Research Applications: Studies of Ecosystem Processes
Model Development and Application
Data Availability: 1994 
Publications and Reports: Adams, Mary Beth; Kochenderfer, James N.; Wood, Frederica; Angradi, Ted R.; Edwards, Pamela. 1994. Forty years of hydrometeorological data from the Fernow Experimental Forest, West Virginia. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-184. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 24 p.

Fu, Hailiang; Tajchman, Stanislaw J.; Kochenderfer, James N. 1995. Topography and radiation exchange of a mountainous watershed. Journal of Applied Meteorology. 34(4): 890-901.

Tajchman, Stanislaw J.; Fu, Hailiang; Kochenderfer, James N.; Chunshen, Pan. 1995. Spatial characteristics of topography, energy exchange, and forest cover in a central Appalachian watershed. In: Gottschalk, Kurt W.; Fosbroke, Sandra L.C., eds. Proceedings, 10th Central Hardwood Forest Conference; 1995 March 5-8; Morgantown, WV. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-197. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station: 297-314.

Fowler, W.B.; Helvey, J.D.; Felix, E.N. 1987. Hydrologic and climatic changes in three small watersheds after timber harvest. Res. Paper PNW-379. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. 13 p. 

Helvey, JD; Patric, J.H. 1983. Sampling accuracy of pit vs. standard rain gages on the Fernow Experimental Forest. Water Resources Bulletin. 19(1): 87-89. 

Leonard, R.; Reinhart, K.G. 1963. Some observations on precipitation measurements of forested experimental watersheds. Res. Note NE-6. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 4 p.

Nik, A.R.H.; Lee, R.; Helvey, JD 1983. Climatological watershed calibration. Water Resources Bulletin. 19(1): 47-50.

Patric, J.H. 1979. What happens to rain before and after a forest is cut? West Virginia Tree Farm News. Issue #3, March. 4 p.

Patric, J.H.; Studenmund, R.W. 1975. Some seldom-reported statistics on precipitation at Elkins, West Virginia. West Virginia Agriculture and Forestry 6(2): 14-16.

Trimble Jr., G.R.; Weitzman, S.1954. Effect of a hardwood forest canopy on rainfall intensities. American Geophysical Union Transactions 35(2): 226-234.

Contact: Mary Beth Adams, USDA Forest Service, P.O. Box 404, Parsons, WV. 26287. (304) 478-2000.
Cooperation: none

 

 

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