Untangling climate and wildfire influences from snow water equivalent measurements on the Deer Park, WA snow course
Drake E, DeSisto C, McDonald S, Evans S, Barry D, Baccus B. 2008. Untangling climate and wildfire influences from snow water equivalent measurements on the Deer Park, WA snow course. Peninsula College. Port Angeles, WA
From the Introduction: "In the summer of 1988, the Deer Park Fire on Washington's Olympic Peninsula burned the southern slopes of Blue Mountain, removing much of the forest cover .... The NRCS/NPS Deer Park Snow Course is located immediately adjacent to the northern burn perimeter. Because forest cover can affect snowpack characteristics, hydrologists using the course's data need to know if the wildfire impacted long-term snow measurement patterns. Long-term climate cycles important to the Pacific Northwest confound the ability to assess potential effects of the 1988 wildfire on snow water equivalent. We report on an analysis of changes in snow water equivalent values measured at Deer Park Snow Course for different long-term climate cycles."
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Drake, Erin; DeSisto, Chris; McDonald, Shea; Evans, Shaelee; Barry, Dwight; Baccus, Bill
- Date of Issue
- 2008
- Publisher
- Peninsula College
- Units
- OLYM
- Keywords
- Deer Park Fire, Global Climate Change, Morse Creek Watershed, snow survey, Wildfire