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Resources for Understanding Climate Change [… in West Virginia]

Compiled by Dr. Nicolas Zegre, Director Mountain Hydrology Lab, West Virginia University.
For more information, see mountainhydrologylab.com/

Scientific Articles/Reports

  • Gaertner, B., Fernandez, R. and Zegre, N. (2020) Twenty-First Century Streamflow and Climate Change in Forest Catchments of the Central Appalachian Mountains Region, US. Water 12(2), 453.
  • Kutta, E. and Hubbart, J. (2019) Climatic Trends of West Virginia: A Representative Appalachian Microcosm. Water 11(6), 1117.
  • Kutta, E. and Hubbart, J.A. (2019) Observed climatic changes in West Virginia and opportunities for agriculture. Regional Environmental Change.
  • Young, D., Zégre, N., Edwards, P. and Fernandez, R. (2019) Assessing streamflow sensitivity of forested headwater catchments to disturbance and climate change in the central Appalachian Mountains region, USA. Science of The Total Environment.
  • Implications of Climate Change for the US Army 
  • 4th National Climate Assessment
  • Demaria, E.M.C., Palmer, R.N. and Roundy, J.K. (2016) Regional climate change projections of streamflow characteristics in the Northeast and Midwest U.S. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 5, 309-323.
  • Fernandez, R. and Zegre, N. (2019) Seasonal Changes in Water and Energy Balances over the Appalachian Region and Beyond throughout the Twenty-First Century. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 58(5), 1079-1102.
  • Gaertner, B.A., Zegre, N., Warner, T., Fernandez, R., He, Y. and Merriam, E.R. (2019) Climate, forest growing season, and evapotranspiration changes in the central Appalachian Mountains, USA. Science of The Total Environment 650, 1371-1381.
  • Hayhoe, K., Wake, C., Anderson, B., Liang, X.-Z., Maurer, E., Zhu, J., Bradbury, J., DeGaetano, A., Stoner, A. and Wuebbles, D. (2008) Regional climate change projections for the Northeast USA. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 13(5-6), 425-436.
  • Hayhoe, K., Wake, C., Huntington, T., Luo, L., Schwartz, M., Sheffield, J., Wood, E., Anderson, B., Bradbury, J., DeGaetano, A., Troy, T. and Wolfe, D. (2007) Past and future changes in climate and hydrological indicators in the US Northeast. Climate Dynamics 28(4), 381-407.
  • Merriam, E.R., Fernandez, R., Petty, J.T. and Zegre, N. (2017) Can brook trout survive climate change in large rivers? If it rains. Science of The Total Environment 607-608, 1225-1236.

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