number of slides in morning test-bed presentations
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Number of Slides in Morning Test-bed Presentations. Raw mean = 6.0 sd = 3.6 Removing skew mean = 4.2, sd = 1.2. identify and fill gaps in the scientific understanding of critical hydrological processes develop management tools firmly based on physical understanding and realism. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Raw mean = 6.0 sd = 3.6
Removing skew mean = 4.2, sd = 1.2
The Role of SAHRA Science is to significantly improve the understanding and management of water resources in semi-arid regions?
• identify and fill gaps in the scientific understanding of critical hydrological processes
• develop management tools firmly based on physical understanding and realism
The evolution of proto-observatory development in the NSF-STC SAHRA
Integration through a Basin Focus
San Pedro River
Salt / VerdeRivers
Upper Rio Grande
Rio Conchos
What are the effects of Vegetation and Vegetation Change on Basin-Scale Water Balance ?
Coordinated Research Efforts in Arizona and New Mexico
Developing Environmental Observatories
Winter precipitation dominant with Winter precipitation dominant with cold, continental snowpack at cold, continental snowpack at elevationelevation
Monsoon precipitation dominant Monsoon precipitation dominant without consistent winter without consistent winter snowcoversnowcover
Question driven, long-term interdisciplinary investments
Observatories – Coordinated, Interdisciplinary Research in Nested Catchments
• Incoming Precipitation as Rain/ Snow
• Atmosphere-Land Surface H2O,CO2, and Energy Balance
• Partitioning of Precipitation intoInfiltration, Runoff, and Recharge
• Vegetation Water Use/ Plant Physiological Ecology
•Soil Development
• Groundwater flow
• Distributed data collection
• Nested Catchments