Sponsor
United States Army Corps of Engineers
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.
DOI
10.15760/esm-data.08
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/45160
Recommended Citation
Vigil, Joseph D., "Data and Code for: Combined Effects of Forest Fire and Climate Warming on Seasonal Snow in the Western Oregon Cascades" (2026). Environmental Science and Management Datasets. 8. https://doi.org/10.15760/esm-data.08
Data Archive.
Description
README file is the main download. File descriptions and software requirements are listed in the README.
The data supports a submitted manuscript: Working title: Climate Warming Amplifies Postfire Snow-Water Storage Loss in the Oregon Cascades.
The data supports the author’s thesis. The thesis is available in PDXScholar. :
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).
Thesis Advisor: Kelly E. Gleason; Portland State University