Ice Storms in the Northeast
Rooted in Research Webinar Series:Adapting to Extreme Weather “Wild Cards”
Ice storms are expected to become more frequent with climate change and can cause significant damage to trees, properties, and utilities. Lindsey Rustad from the USDA Northeast Climate Hub will discuss the science of ice storms, exploring what we have learned from studying natural storms, experimental storms, and models. Lloyd Irland of the Irland Group will then share consequences of ice storms on forest management and timber, broadening this discussion to cover the impacts of wild winter weather events more generally.
Presenters
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Lindsey Rustad, PhD
Senior Research Ecologist (ST)https://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/lindsey.rustad - The Irland Group
Lloyd Irland
Presentation Slides
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https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/understory/why-ice-storms-arent-cool-latest-research-forest-response-these-catastrophic-events
Publications
- Lindsey Rustad, John Campbell, Charles T. Driscoll, Timothy J. Fahey, Peter M. Groffman, Paul Schaberg, Gary J. Hawley, Ian Halm, Frank Bowles, Wendy Leuenberger, Geoffrey Schwaner, Gabriel Winant, Brendan Leonardi. 2020. Experimental approach and initial forest response to a simulated ice storm experiment in a northern hardwood forest
External Publications
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Related Publications
Branick, M. L. (1997). A climatology of significant winter-type weather events in the contiguous United States, 1982–94. Weather and Forecasting, 12(2), 193-207. https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/wefo/12/2/1520-0434_1997_012_0193_acoswt_2_0_co_2.xml
Cortinas, J. (2000). A climatology of freezing rain in the Great Lakes region of North America. Monthly weather review, 128(10), 3574-3588. https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/mwre/128/10/1520-0493_2001_129_3574_acofri_2.0.co_2.xml?tab_body=pdf
Degelia, S. K., Christian, J. I., Basara, J. B., Mitchell, T. J., Gardner, D. F., Jackson, S. E., ... & Mahan, H. R. (2016). An overview of ice storms and their impact in the United States. International Journal of Climatology, 36(8), 2811-2822.https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/joc.4525
Harding, J. ed. Science theme: The Ice Storm 10 years later. New England SAF News Quarterly Jan. 2008.
Irland, L. C. (1998). Ice storm 1998 and the forests of the Northeast: A preliminary assessment. Journal of Forestry, 96(9), 32-40. https://academic.oup.com/jof/article/96/9/32/4673331
Irland, L. C. (2000). Ice storms and forest impacts. Science of the total environment, 262(3), 231-242. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969700005258
Lafon, C. W. (2004). Ice‐storm disturbance and long‐term forest dynamics in the Adirondack Mountains. Journal of Vegetation Science, 15(2), 267-276. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1654-1103.2004.tb02261.x
McCray, C. D., Atallah, E. H., & Gyakum, J. R. (2019). Long-duration freezing rain events over North America: Regional climatology and thermodynamic evolution. Weather and Forecasting, 34(3), 665-681.
Millward, A. A., & Kraft, C. E. (2004). Physical influences of landscape on a large-extent ecological disturbance: the northeastern North American ice storm of 1998. Landscape Ecology, 19, 99-111.
Sanders, K. J., Gravelle, C. M., Gagan, J. P., & Graves, C. E. (2013). Characteristics of Major Ice Storms in the Central United States. Journal of Operational Meteorology, 1(10).