Prediction and Adaptation of Military Natural Infrastructure in Response to Climate Change: Forest Modeling
Abstract
Federal legislation and Department of Defense (DoD) policy initiatives have created compliance requirements for the sustainability of military lands that include addressing climate-change impacts. Climate change will be an accelerant of current stressors in the natural environment and will increase military installations burden for regulatory compliance in areas such as clean air, clean water, and protected species habitats. Thus, future climate variation has a direct link to the sustainability of land resources and the impact of change to those resources on the military training mission. Many military lands, especially in the southeastern portion of the United States, feature forests as the predominant land cover. The overall objective of this work unit, Prediction and Adaptation of Military Natural Infrastructure in Response to Climate Change: Forest Modeling, is to evaluate Army forest management planning as impacted by future climate variability scenarios. This report outlines progress for fiscal year (FY) 2011 on work unit Tasks 1 3 which are model selection, data development and acquisition, and model modification and parameterization.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2012
- Accession Number
- ADA586630
Entities
People
- George Z. Gertner
- Patrick J. Guertin
- Scott A. Tweddale
Organizations
- Engineer Research and Development Center