Hydrologic data from long-term research catchments at the Santa Rita and Jornada Experimental Ranges

This datasets contains ecohydrological data collected for the research catchments at the Santa Rita Experimental Range (SRER, 31.817° N, -110.851° W) in southern of Arizona and the Jornada Experimental Range (JER, 32.585° N, -106.603° W) in southern New Mexico. The SRER catchment correspond to a mesquite savanna of the Sonoran Desert and the JER catchment is a mixed shrubland of the Chihuahuan Desert.

Dataset includes the following ecohydrological variables at a daily scale:

• Year of measurement.
• Day of year (DOY) of measurement.
• Precipitation (P).
• Evapotranspiration (ET).
• Runoff (Q).
• Soil moisture (SM).
• Net Radiation (R_n).
• Sensible heat flux (H).
• Latent heat flux (λET).
• Gross primary production (GPP).
• Ecosystem respiration (R_eco).
• Net ecosystem exchange (NEE).

Please cite the next data note together with the dataset:

Vivoni, E. R., Perez-Ruiz, E. R., Keller, Z. T., Escoto, E. A., Templeton, R. C., Templeton, N. P., Anderson, C. A., Schreiner-McGraw, A. P., Mendez-Barroso, L. A., Robles-Morua, A., Scott, R. L., Archer, S. R., Peters, D. P. C. 2021. Long-term Research Catchments to Investigate  Shrub Encroachment in the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts: Santa Rita and Jornada Experimental Ranges. Hydrological Processes. 35: e14031. http://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14031

Related publications:

Schreiner-McGraw, A.P., and Vivoni, E.R. 2018. On the Sensitivity of Hillslope Runoff and Channel Transmission Losses in Arid Piedmont Slopes. Water Resources Research. 54(7): 4498-4518.

Schreiner-McGraw, A.P., and Vivoni, E.R. 2017. Percolation Observations in an Arid Piedmont Watershed and Linkages to Historical Conditions in the Chihuahuan Desert. Ecosphere. 8(11): e02000, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2000

Anderson, C.A., and 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: 4785-4800.

Schreiner-McGraw, A.P., Vivoni, E.R., Mascaro, G., and Franz, T.E. 2016. Closing the Water Balance with Cosmic-ray Soil Moisture Measurements and Assessing Their Relation with Evapotranspiration in Two Semiarid Watersheds. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 20: 329-345.

Pierini, N.A., Vivoni, E.R., Robles-Morua, A., Scott, R.L., and Nearing, M.A. 2014. Using Observations and a Distributed Hydrologic Model to Explore Runoff Threshold Processes Linked with Mesquite Encroachment in the Sonoran Desert. Water Resources Research. 50(10): 8191–8215.

Templeton, R.C., Vivoni, E.R., Méndez-Barroso, L.A., Pierini, N.A., Anderson, C.A., Rango, A., Laliberte, A.S., and Scott, R.L. 2014. High-Resolution Characterization of a Semiarid Watershed: Implications on Evapotranspiration Estimates. Journal of Hydrology. 509: 306-319.

Vivoni, E.R., Rango, A., Anderson, C.A., Pierini, N.A., Schreiner-McGraw, A., Saripalli, S., and Laliberte, A.S. 2014. Ecohydrology with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Ecosphere. 5(10): art130. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES14-00217.1