LYSIMETER SNOWMELT AND STREAMFLOW ON FORESTED AND CLEARED SITES

SNOWMELT LYSIMETERS HAVE BEEN OPERATED FOR TWO YEARS ON CLEARED AND FORESTED WATERSHEDS IN CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE IN AN EXPERIMENT TO IMPROVE MEASUREMENTS FOR DETERMINING HOW SPECIFIC VARIABLES AFFECT SNOWMELT- STREAMFLOW RELATIONSHIPS. THE LYSIMETERS READILY DETECTED A SEVERAL-DAY ADVANCE IN MELT-WATER CONTRIBUTION CAUSED BY FOREST CLEARING. THE CONTINUOUS RECORD OF MELT-WATER AT THE BASE OF THE SNOWPACK PROVIDED BY THE LYSIMETER APPEARS TO BE MORE USEFUL AND CONVENIENT FOR SNOWMELT STUDIES THAN THE INTERVAL MEASUREMENT OF SNOWPACK CHANGES OBTAINED BY THE WIDELY USED SNOW-TUBE SAMPLERS. /AUTHOR/

• Corporate Authors:

  29th Ann East Snow Conf Proc

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• Authors:
  • Martin, C W
  • Hornbeck, J W
• Publication Date: 1972-2-5

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Flow; Forest roads; Forests; Measurement; Measuring instruments; Snowmelt; Streamflow; Streams
• Old TRIS Terms: Lysimeter
• Subject Areas: Construction; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00215642
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 9 1973 12:00AM