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Research · Asheville
What research is done in Asheville?
Papers authored at Asheville's institutions — Southern Research Station, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, University of North Carolina at Asheville — with the Prism stance layer.
Summary
Research made in Asheville is an environmental institution story: 655 papers, led by Southern Research Station with 342 and NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information with 151. Climate change and ecosystems appear as both promise and warning.
WATCH Watch for climate work that converts caution into practical local resilience.
What the papers — written in the city and about it — point to, split by the Prism stance layer: work that reads promising versus work that flags problems or urges caution.
Forest Insect Ecology and Management · 47Fire effects on ecosystems · 43Climate variability and models · 40Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution · 40Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics · 37Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies · 37Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies · 36Forest ecology and management · 29Insect and Pesticide Research · 25Forest Management and Policy · 24Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics · 23Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies · 22
Most-cited work
Paper
Year
Cited
Orientation
Improvements in the GISTEMP Uncertainty Model
2019
972
Breakthrough
International Geomagnetic Reference Field: the thirteenth generation
2021
921
Descriptive
U.S. Billion-dollar Weather and Climate Disasters, 1980 - present (NCEI Accession 0209268)
2020
405
Descriptive
Heat stored in the Earth system: where does the energy go?
2020
369
Descriptive
An Evaluation of the Performance of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis Version 3
2020
254
Promising
Indicators of Global Climate Change 2023: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system…
2024
246
Problem Identifying
The International Tree‐Ring Data Bank (<scp>ITRDB</scp>) revisited: Data availability and global ecological…
2018
188
Promising
The quantification and correction of wind-induced precipitation measurement errors
2017
166
Promising
Double Environmental Injustice — Climate Change, Hurricane Dorian, and the Bahamas
2019
140
Problem Identifying
An Overview of Using Weather Radar for Climatological Studies: Successes, Challenges, and Potential
2019
129
Problem Identifying
Past and Future Hurricane Intensity Change along the U.S. East Coast
2019
126
Cautionary
Increasing Heat‐Stress Inequality in a Warming Climate
2022
124
Cautionary
SDSS-IV MaNGA: the spatially resolved stellar initial mass function in ∼400 early-type galaxies
2018
124
Descriptive
Critical Race Theory, Afro-Pessimism, and Racial Progress Narratives
2017
124
Critical
Implementing Full Spatial Coverage in NOAA’s Global Temperature Analysis
2021
109
Breakthrough
figures marked ≈ are scaled estimates from a partial sample · Prism stance layer over 2017+ papers