US-SRS: Santa Rita Savanna
Tower_team: | |
PI: | Enrique R. Vivoni vivoni@asu.edu - Arizona State University |
FluxContact: | Eli R. Perez-Ruiz eli.perez@asu.edu - Arizona State University and Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez |
Lat, Long: | 31.8173, -110.8508 |
Elevation(m): | 1169 |
Network Affiliations: | AmeriFlux |
Vegetation IGBP: | WSA (Woody Savannas: Lands with herbaceous and other understory systems, and with forest canopy cover between 30-60%. The forest cover height exceeds 2 meters.) |
Climate Koeppen: | Bsk (Steppe: warm winter) |
Mean Annual Temp (°C): | 19.4 |
Mean Annual Precip. (mm): | 388 |
Flux Species Measured: | CO2, H, H2O |
Years Data Collected: | 2011 - 2019 |
Years Data Available: | AmeriFlux BASE 2011 - 2018 Data Citation |
Data Use Policy: | AmeriFlux CC-BY-4.0 Policy1 |
Description: | |
URL: | http://hydrology.asu.edu/wiki/index.php |
Research Topics: | Watershed hydrology and ecohydrology |
Acknowledgment: | Funding for the operation and maintenance of the Santa Rita Experimental Range Mesquite Savanna site was provide by the US Army Research Office (grant 56059āEVāPCS) and USDA-NIFA (grantĀ 2022-13610-012-06S). |
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Santa Rita Experimental Range Mesquite Savanna
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2022 | Vivoni, E. R., PƩrez-Ruiz, E. R., Scott, R. L., Naito, A. T., Archer, S. R., Biederman, J. A., Templeton, N. P. (2022) A Micrometeorological Flux Perspective On Brush Management In A Shrub-Encroached Sonoran Desert Grassland, Agricultural And Forest Meteorology, 313, 108763. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108763 |
2016 | Anderson, C. A., Vivoni, E. R. (2016) Impact Of Land Surface States Within The Flux Footprint On Daytime Land-Atmosphere Coupling In Two Semiarid Ecosystems Of The Southwestern U.S., Water Resources Research, 52(6), 4785-4800. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/2015WR018016 |
2016 | Mascaro, G., Vivoni, E. R. (2016) On The Observed Hysteresis In Field-Scale Soil Moisture Variability And Its Physical Controls, Environmental Research Letters, 11(8), 084008. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/8/084008 |
2014 | Pierini, N. A., Vivoni, E. R., Robles-Morua, A., Scott, R. L., Nearing, M. A. (2014) Using Observations And A Distributed Hydrologic Model To Explore Runoff Thresholds Linked With Mesquite Encroachment In The Sonoran Desert, Water Resources Research, 50(10), 8191-8215. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/2014WR015781 |
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