Appendix E: Water team final report. Sierra Nevada adaptive management project.

Title
Appendix E: Water team final report. Sierra Nevada adaptive management project.
Abstract
Part I of this chapter addresses water quantity measurement and modeling to determine the impacts of forest fuel treatments and wildfire on hydrologic fluxes. For this study, a spatially explicit hydroecologic model, based on observed data, was used to scale from small to large catchments. The Regional Hydro-Ecologic Simulation System (RHESSys) was calibrated using headwater catchment observations of climate, snow, soil moisture, and stream discharge for the three pre-treatment water years (2010-2012), which encompassed wet, average, and dry precipitation conditions. The successful headwater calibrations were then transferred to the fireshed scale, based on geologic similarities between catchments. Changes in forest structure were determined by differences in Leaf Area Index (LAI), overstory canopy cover, and understory shrub cover. (continued)
Begin Date
2016-08-16
Originator Name
Conklin, M. et al. Sierra Nevada Adaptive Management Project (SNAMP), CNR. Accessed: Berkeley.snamp.cnr.berkeley.edu
Links
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Location
Global or not applicable
Keywords
Adaptive Management, Climate, Headwaters, Hydrology, Project
Resource Type
Document
Resource Owner
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