Impacts of Forest Cover on Hydrologic Extreme Events over the Conterminous United States: Changes and Mechanisms

Zhuoran Duan1, Hongxiang Yan2, Mark S Wigmosta1, Ethan D Gutmann3 and Jeffrey Richard Arnold4,5, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Energy and Environment Directorate, Richland, WA, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Hydrometeorological Applications Program, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (4)MITRE Corporation, Climate + Environmental Sciences Office, McLean, United States, (5)US Army Engineer Responses to Climate Change Program, Seattle, United States