SHRMC Research

     Four separate research projects have been initiated as part of this cooperative agreement, using resources provided by the SHRMC and in support of the consortium's mission. Three of these projects involve climatic hazards or disturbances to forests or USFS administered lands. The fourth project involves climate feedbacks that are a result of changing forest cover due to urbanization.

• High resolution hydrologic forecasting in the southern Appalachians using MM5.
• Assessing the Impact of Convectively Induced Windstorms on Southern Forests.
• Prediction of Appalachian cold air damming and icing events in the Piedmont.
• Assessment of urban deforestation on convection and precipitation: Atlanta case study.

The SHRMC will collaborate with other scientists, local, state, and federal air quality and fire regulators, other interested parties, and colleagues at existing and planned modeling centers as part of a national framework of regional interagency modeling consortia.