WRS-81
The Snowy Range Observatory: An Update and Review
Abstract
Wyoming WRRI has developed and maintained the Snowy Range Water
Resource Observatory, an intensely instrumented subalpine research
watershed in southeastern Wyoming, since the mid-1960's. The original
goal behind the Observatory concept had been to foster and promote
long-term study of the hydrologic cycle in a high mountain watershed
and the interdisciplinary relationships of various portions of this
cycle to other aspects of the environment, both physical and
biological. This goal was well met until the mid-1970's. As research
interests shifted more toward the energy development activities
occurring in Wyoming, the Observatory underwent a period of stagnation
and deterioration. Since 1979, the Observatory has been rebuilt in
the hope of revitalizing interest in both basic and applied watershed
research. This report presents a review of the Observatory and a
summary of the hydrologic and climatologic data being collected there
as a research tool.
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