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Site Description
This tower (34.425489 N, -105.861545 W) is located in the Southwestern Tablelands in the central part of NM on a private ranch approximately 25 km south of Willard, NM. It is in a savanna consisting of widely dispersed (0.025 m-2) Juniperus monosperma in intermittently grazed grasslands dominated by C4 perennial grasses (mostly Bouteloua gracilis). This site is at 1926m, has a mean annual temperature of 15.2 and mean annual precipitation of 361 m (1980-2003).
The installation of this site was funded by NSF-EPSCoR. This tower has been operational since May 2007.
Instrumentation
Sensor |
Height (meters) relative to ground surface |
CSAT 3-D Sonic Anemometer |
8 |
LI-7500 open-path IRGA |
8 |
CNR1 4-way Kipp&Zonen Net Radiometer |
8 |
HMP45C Vaisala Temperature/ RH Probe |
8, 4 |
CS105 Vaisala PTB101B Barometric Pressure |
1 |
2-D spinning cup anemometer |
4 |
TE525 Texas Electronics 6" Tipping Bucket Raingauge |
2 |
HFT3 REBS Soil Heat FLux Plates (quantity 4) |
5 cm below surface |
TCAV Averaging Soil Termocouple Probes (quantity 4) |
2 and 5 cm below surface |
CS616 Water Content Reflectometers (4 profiles) |
5, 10, 20, 50 cm |
Soil thermocouples (4 profiles) |
5, 10, 20, 50 cm |
Vaisala CO2 probes (3 profiles) |
5 , 10, 20, 40, 100 cm |
CR5000 datalogger |
|
Results
Junniper Savanna Site Vegetation
Juniper Savanna Site Instrumentation
Juniper Savanna Site Aerial View
© 2008 Marcy Litvak
Last Updated: January 14, 2008
For more information please contact: Dr. Marcy Litvak
Created by: Kimberly Bandy, January 2008