Journal article
The aggregate description of semi-arid vegetation with precipitation-generated soil moisture heterogeneity
Abstract
Abstract. Meteorological measurements in the Walnut Gulch catchment in Arizona were used to synthesize a distributed, hourly-average time series of data across a 26.9 by 12.5 km area with a grid resolution of 480 m for a continuous 18-month period which included two seasons of monsoonal rainfall. Coupled surface-atmosphere model runs established the acceptability (for modelling purposes) of assuming uniformity in all meteorological variables …
Authors
White CB; Houser PR; Arain AM; Yang Z-L; Syed K; Shuttleworth WJ
Journal
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 205–212
Publisher
Copernicus Publications
DOI
10.5194/hess-1-205-1997
ISSN
1027-5606