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AN: H21F-1099    [Abstracts]
TI: Development of a Statewide, Interbasin Flux Network to Monitor Evapotranspiration Changes During and Following Riparian Restoration in New Mexico
AU: * Cleverly, J R
EM: cleverly@sevilleta.unm.edu
AF: Department of Biology, MSC03 2020 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 United States
AU: Dahm, C N
EM: cdahm@sevilleta.unm.edu
AF: Department of Biology, MSC03 2020 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 United States
AU: Gosz, J R
EM: jgosz@sevilleta.unm.edu
AF: Department of Biology, MSC03 2020 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 United States
AU: Thibault, J R
EM: jrtebo@sevilleta.unm.edu
AF: Department of Biology, MSC03 2020 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 United States
AU: Allred Coonrod, J E
EM: jcoonrod@unm.edu
AF: Department of Civil Engineering, MSC01 1070 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 United States
AU: Bowman, R
EM: bowman@nmt.edu
AF: Department of Earth and Environmental Science, MSEC 250 New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM 87801 United States
AU: Bawazir, S
EM: abawazir@nmsu.edu
AF: Department of Civil, Agricultural and Geological Engineering, MSC 3CE Box 30001 New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003 United States
AU: Samani, Z
EM: zsamani@nmsu.edu
AF: Department of Civil, Agricultural and Geological Engineering, MSC 3CE Box 30001 New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003 United States
AB: Local, state, and federal legislation has made millions of dollars available for the removal of saltcedar from Western waterways. These programs are based upon the assumption that enormous water salvage will be obtained through such restoration efforts. To test these assumptions, flux towers are being established in restored and un-restored sites in the Canadian and Pecos river basins. These systems are being integrated into a flux network with long-term riparian flux stations in the Middle Rio Grande. This network is based upon the data-sharing model presented by FluxNet (AmeriFlux, EuroFlux, etc). Predictive and functional relationships between groundwater (e.g., depth, rate of change), vegetation (e.g., leaf area index, leaf chlorophyll content, water source, and transpiration), micrometeorological conditions (e.g., friction velocity, vapor pressure deficit, wind speed, and wind direction), and fluxes have been generated for saltcedar and cottonwood forests along the Middle Rio Grande. This prior knowledge will be used to parameterize and test the role of remote sensing imagery and hydrological models on the Canadian and Pecos Rivers. From such a functional understanding of energy, carbon, and water cycles in a regional context, more precise and accurate estimates of water salvage are obtained for whole basins under a range of restoration scenarios.
DE: 3322 Land/atmosphere interactions
DE: 3307 Boundary layer processes
DE: 1818 Evapotranspiration
DE: 1851 Plant ecology
DE: 0315 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting