Site Info :: US-Wkg

General Site Information
LaThuid:	US-Wkg
Site Name:	Walnut Gulch Kendall Grasslands
Network:	AmeriFlux
Sec. Network(s):	Unknown
Latitude:	31.7365
Longitude:	-109.942
Elevation(m):	1531
IGBP:	GRA
Description
Site Citation:
Site Acknowledgment:
Data Usage Note:	TBA
Primary Contact:	Russ Scott
Curator:	Tom Boden
Anc Curator:	Tom Boden
Years Of Data:	3 (Duration: 2004 - 2006)
Tower Status:	Active (2004 - Present)
Site image(s):	No images submitted.
VE Cutouts:	Max Zoom :: Mid 1 Zoom :: Mid 2 Zoom :: Min Zoom

Fluxnet Research Proposals Using this Site
Coordinator	Title	Collaborators	Topic
Sonia Seneviratne	Multi-scale land-atmosphere interactions	Seneviratne; Reichstein; Ciais; Buchmann; Stockli	Biophysical feedbacks, Drought effects
Andrew Richardson	Exploring relationships among carbon exchange, foliar nitrogen, and canopy albedo at global scales	Richardson; Ollinger; Martin; Hollinger
Christopher A. Williams	Carbon Dioxide and Water Flux Responses to Extreme Weather and Climate Anomalies	Williams; Munger; Hollinger; Stoy; Richardson; Schaefer; Stockli; Schwalm	Temporal variability; extremes
Christian Bernhofer	Analyzing long-term FLUXNET measurements for reliable ET values across ecosystems types and across climatic regions	Bernhofer; Koestner; Knohl; Lindroth; Grünwald; Riedel	H2O
Andrew Jarvis	A data-based cross-site evaluation of (optimal) carbon gain and water use strategies as expressed in FLUXNET eddy covariance data	Jarvis;Stauch	C-H2O
Darrel Jenerette	Variation of ecosystem metabolic rain response along a 2000 mm rainfall gradient	Jenerette;Scott;Huxman	Drought effects; C
Philippe Ciais	What the eddy-covariance flux measurements tell us about prior errors in CO2-flux inversion schemes	Chevallier; Ciais; Maignan; Wang; Reichstein
Martin Jung	Identifying environmental and biophysical controls of monthly carbon and water fluxes	Jung; Reichstein; Papale; Tomelleri
Enrico Tomelleri	Climatic effects on the inter‐annual variability of net ecosystem fluxes of North America and Europe	Tomelleri; Migliavacca; Carvalhais
Dario Papale	A new global spatialized estimate of NEP, GPP and TER and analysis of uncertainty and limiting factors using data driven models and eddy covariance measurements	Papale, Reichstein, Tomelleri	Up-scaling, global, data-oriented

Local Climate Information
Climate:	BSk
Climate Group:	Dry (arid and semi arid)
Precip:	406.93
TA(C):	15.64
TA(C) max:	23.8
TA(C) min:	7.66

Instrument Information
Instruments	Brand/model	Levels/depths	Type	Frequency	Comment	Reference

Bibliography

Emmerich, Ag. Forest Meteoro. 116, 91-102, 2003

RUSSELL L. SCOTT; TRAVIS E. HUXMAN; DAVID G. WILLIAMS; DAVID C. GOODRICH. 2006. Ecohydrological impacts of woody-plant encroachment: seasonal patterns of water and carbon dioxide exchange within a semiarid riparian environmentGlobal Change Biology. 12:2, 311-324.

J. M. Cable; T. E. Huxman. 2004. Precipitation pulse size effects on Sonoran Desert soil microbial crustsOecologia. 141:2, 317-324.