Did hydrological processes exacerbate the impact of Hurricane Helene in eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina?
Jitendra Kumar1, Russell Limber2, Bin Guan3, Elias Massoud4, Joseph Spruce5, Sudershan Gangrade6, Shih-Chieh Kao7, Steven P Norman8, Forrest Hoffman4 and William Walter Hargrove9, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA, California, United States, (4)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division, Oak Ridge, United States, (5)Leidos, San Diego, United States, (6)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (7)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Science Division, Oak Ridge, United States, (8)USDA Forest Service, Asheville, NC, United States, (9)USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States