Watching spring unfold at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest

Low snowfall plus an early spring warmup has everyone talking about the spring of 2012.  Researchers at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (HBEF) are particularly interested in the impact of this unusual weather pattern.  Many HBEF researchers are located several hours from the forest, and are using information from on-site sensors to monitor the forest during this period.

Monitoring Ice Out on Mirror Lake via webcam

MirrorLakeBeforeIceOutMarch 22, 2012
MirrorLakeAfterIceOutMarch 23, 2012
Watch a movie of Mirror Lake Ice-Out

The NRCS SCAN sensor system at Hubbard Brook provides access to real-time soil temperatures. Below you can see the pattern of soil warming throughout the 10 years that this system has been in operation, plus the real-time data stream - here we display snow depth, snow water equivalent, and soil temperature at 4" below the surface for the current year (bold lines).
10 years of spring soil temperatures from SCAN