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.
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).
