Abstract: Two geographic parameters, elevation and latitude, account for much of the spatial variation of temperature and precipitation over New England during the winter and spring seasons. Since temperature controls the amount of ...

Abstract: The role of environmental characteristics of elevation, slope-aspect and forest cover in spatially differ-entiating rates of snowmelt is examined over a 43-mi2 northern Vermont watershed. Both energy balance considerations ...

Abstract: On 24 May 1975, an isolated thunderstorm in east-central Pennsylvania produced over 4 inches of rain in 2 h over an Agricultural Research Service instrumented area. The return period for this storm appears to exceed 650 ...