Ecohydrological Data from Santa Rita and Jornada Desert Research Catchments

Southern Arizona and New Mexico provide the location for this daily-scale ecohydrological dataset from the Santa Rita and Jornada Experimental Ranges. It contains variables including precipitation, evapotranspiration, runoff, soil moisture, heat fluxes, and carbon exchange metrics. The dataset was authored by Enrique R. Vivoni of Arizona State University and published in 2021.

Use Cases

• Modeling desert water balance based on daily precipitation, evapotranspiration, and runoff variables.
• Analyzing land-atmosphere coupling based on net radiation, sensible heat flux, and latent heat flux data.
• Studying carbon dynamics in shrublands based on gross primary production, ecosystem respiration, and net ecosystem exchange metrics.
• Investigating the ecohydrological impacts of shrub encroachment in desert catchments.

Strengths

• Dataset includes 12 distinct daily ecohydrological variables, such as precipitation, soil moisture, and carbon fluxes.
• Data is collected from two distinct desert ecosystems: a Sonoran Desert mesquite savanna and a Chihuahuan Desert mixed shrubland.
• Associated with multiple peer-reviewed publications in journals like 'Hydrological Processes' and 'Water Resources Research'.

Limitations

• Row count and temporal coverage are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Arizona State University (Enrique R. Vivoni)

Collection Method

Collected from long-term research catchments at the Santa Rita and Jornada Experimental Ranges.

Geography

Santa Rita Experimental Range, Arizona (31.817° N, -110.851° W) and Jornada Experimental Range, New Mexico (32.585° N, -106.603° W), USA.