Deep River Basin, North Carolina

1989 ◽  
pp. 19-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. W. Gore ◽  
J. P. Smoot ◽  
P. E. Olsen
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
River Basin

scholarly journals Investigation of Atmospheric Rivers Impacting the Pigeon River Basin of the Southern Appalachian Mountains

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 283-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas K. Miller ◽  
David Hotz ◽  
Jessica Winton ◽  
Lukas Stewart
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Large Fraction ◽  
Appalachian Mountains ◽  
Warm Season ◽  
Atmospheric Rivers ◽  
Southern Appalachian Mountains ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Southern Appalachian

Abstract Rainfall observations in the Pigeon River basin of the southern Appalachian Mountains over a 5-yr period (2009–14) are examined to investigate the synoptic patterns responsible for downstream flooding events as observed near Knoxville, Tennessee, and Asheville, North Carolina. The study is designed to address the hypothesis that atmospheric rivers (ARs) are primarily responsible for the highest accumulation periods observed by the gauge network and that these periods correspond to events having a societal hazard (flooding). The upper 2.5% (extreme) and middle 33% (normal) rainfall events flagged using the gauge network observations showed that half of the heaviest rainfall cases were associated with an AR. Of those extreme events having an AR influence, over 73% had a societal hazard defined as minor-to-major flooding at the USGS river gauge located in Newport, Tennessee, or flooding observations for locations near the Tennessee and North Carolina border reported in the Storm Data publication. Composites of extreme AR-influenced events revealed a synoptic pattern consisting of a highly amplified slow-moving positively tilted trough, suggestive of the anticyclonic Rossby wave breaking scenario that sometimes precedes hydrological events of high impact. Composites of extreme non-AR events indicated a large-scale weather pattern typical of a warm season scenario in which an anomalous low-level cyclone, cut off far from the primary upper-tropospheric jet, was located in the southeastern United States. AR events without a societal hazard represented a large fraction (75%–88%) of all ARs detected during the study period. Synoptic-scale weather patterns of these events were fast moving and had weak low-level atmospheric dynamics.

scholarly journals Seasonal Changes in Microbial Community Structure in Freshwater Stream Sediment in a North Carolina River Basin

Diversity ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Bucci ◽  
Anthony Szempruch ◽  
Jane Caldwell ◽  
Joseph Ellis ◽  
Jay Levine
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Community Structure ◽  
Microbial Community ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Microbial Community Structure ◽  
Seasonal Changes ◽  
Stream Sediment ◽  
Freshwater Stream
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