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US-SRS: Santa Rita Experimental Range Mesquite 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:

BASE 2011 - 2018   Data Citation
Data Use Policy:AmeriFlux CC-BY-4.0 Policy1
Description:
The study site is located in the Santa Rita Experimental Range, approximately 45 km south of Tucson, Arizona, within the Sonoran Desert. The rangeland ...
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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 56059‐EV‐PCS) and USDA-NIFA (grant 2022-13610-012-06S).
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Image Credit: Nicole Templeton
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Site Publication More Site Publications
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.

US-SRS: Santa Rita Experimental Range Mesquite Savanna

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  • BASE: https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/1660351
    Citation: Enrique R. Vivoni (2020), AmeriFlux BASE US-SRS Santa Rita Experimental Range Mesquite Savanna, Ver. 2-5, AmeriFlux AMP, (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/1660351

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Acknowledgements

  • Funding for the operation and maintenance of the Santa Rita Experimental Range Mesquite Savanna site was provide by the US Army Research Office (grant 56059‐EV‐PCS) and USDA-NIFA (grant 2022-13610-012-06S).

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US-SRS: Santa Rita Experimental Range Mesquite Savanna

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US-SRS: Santa Rita Experimental Range Mesquite Savanna

MODIS NDVI

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US-SRS: Santa Rita Experimental Range Mesquite Savanna

Year Publication
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.
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.
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.

US-SRS: Santa Rita Experimental Range Mesquite Savanna

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US-SRS: Santa Rita Experimental Range Mesquite Savanna

Wind Roses

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    • Wind roses use variables ‘WS’ and ‘WD’.
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    About Ameriflux Wind Roses
    Wind Rose Explanation
    A wind rose gives a succinct view of how wind speed and direction are typically distributed at a particular location. Presented in a circular format, a wind rose shows the frequency and intensity of winds blowing from particular directions. The length of each “spoke” around the circle indicates the amount of time (frequency) that the wind blows from a particular direction. Colors along the spokes indicate categories of wind speed (intensity). Each concentric circle represents a different frequency, emanating from zero at the center to increasing frequencies at the outer circles
    Utility
    This information can be useful to gain insight into regions surrounding a flux tower that contribute to the measured fluxes, and how those regions change in dependence of the time of day and season. The wind roses presented here are for four periods of the year, and in 16 cardinal directions. Graphics are available for all sites in the AmeriFlux network based on reported wind measurements at each site.
    Data from each site can be downloaded by clicking the ‘download’ button.
    Hover the cursor over a wind rose to obtain directions, speeds and intensities.
    Note that wind roses are not equivalent to flux footprints. Specifically, the term flux footprint describes an upwind area “seen” by the instruments measuring vertical turbulent fluxes, such that heat, water, gas and momentum transport generated in this area is registered by the instruments. Wind roses, on the other hand, identify only the direction and speed of wind.
    Where do these data come from?
    The wind roses are based on observed hourly data from the sites registered with the AmeriFlux Network.
    Parameters for AmeriFlux Wind Roses
    To use wind roses for a single AmeriFlux site, the following parameters may be most useful:
    • Wind Speed Scale: Per Site
    • Wind Direction Scale (%): Per Site
    To compare wind roses from more than one single AmeriFlux site, the following parameters may be most useful:
    • Wind Speed Scale: Non-Linear
    • Wind Direction Scale (%): AmeriFlux
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