Document Type

Dataset

Publication Date

2026

Abstract

This dataset supports a study examining the combined effects of forest fire and climate warming on seasonal snow in the Breitenbush watershed of the western Oregon Cascades. The archive includes daily SnowModel snow water equivalent outputs for forested, current post-fire, mid-century, and end-century climate scenarios; field meteorological and manual snow observations; station metadata; modified SnowModel code used to represent post-fire snow-albedo decay; and R code used to calculate snow metrics and statistical comparisons reported in the associated manuscript. Derived results and documentation are included to support reproduction of the primary analyses.

Description

README file is the main download. Datafiles are attached below.

Related work: Master’s thesis:  Modeling the Combined Effects of Forest Fire and Climate Change on Snow-Water Storage in the Oregon Cascades

File formats included: NetCDF (.nc), CSV (.csv), R (.R), plain text/data files (.txt/.dat), GeoTIFF (.tif), and ESRI Shapefile components (.shp/.shx/.dbf/.prj).

The data supports a submitted manuscript, to be published in TBD. Working title: Climate Warming Amplifies Postfire Snow-Water Storage Loss in the Oregon Cascades.

Rights

© 2026 Joseph D. Vigil

DOI

10.15760/esm-data.08

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/45160

BreitenbushSnowModel.zip (120799 kB)
Data Archive.

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