Chairs: Lixin Wang, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, United States and Sujith Ravi, Temple University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Primary Conveners: Lixin Wang, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, United States
Co-conveners: Sujith Ravi, Stanford University, Department of Environmental Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States; Temple University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Sujith Ravi, Temple University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Spatial Heterogeneity of Soil Water after Large Rainfall Events in a Dry Forest: Interacting Canopy, Surface and Soil Effects
Patricio Nicolás Magliano1, Roberto Javier Fernández2, David D Breshears3, Ricardo Andres Paez1 and Esteban G Jobbagy1,4, (1)Instituto de Matemática Aplicada, San Luis, Argentina, (2)University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (3)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)National University of San Luis, San Luis, Argentina
Water and Vapor Transfer in Vadose Zone of Gobi Desert and Riparian in the Hyper Arid Environment of Ejina, China
Chaoyang Du1,2, Jingjie Yu1 and Ping Wang1,3, (1)IGSNRR Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, China, (2)University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing,, China, (3)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Dryland Precipitation Variability and Desertification Processes: An Assessment of Spatial and Temporal Rain Variability within the Grand Canyon, Arizona
Joshua Caster1, Joel B Sankey1, Amy Draut2, Helen Fairley1, Brian D Collins3 and David Bedford4, (1)USGS Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (2)USGS Pacific Coast and Marine Science Center, DOI, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)USGS California Water Science Center Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (4)U.S.G.S., Menlo Park, CA, United States
Groundwater Dynamics and Evapotranspiration Processes from Gobi Desert to Riparian Zone in Water-Limited Environment
Ping Wang1,2, Sergey P Pozdniakov3, Sergey Grinevsky3, Guo-Yue Niu2, Jingjie Yu1 and Chaoyang Du1, (1)IGSNRR Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, China, (2)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Characterization of the Water and Energy Cycles in the Agro-Pastoral Sahel from 1950 to 2010, in a Context of Climate and Land-Use Changes
Crystele Leauthaud1, Jerome Demarty2, Bernard Cappelaere2, Grippa Manuela3, Benjamin Sultan4, Laurent Kergoat3, Theo Vischel5 and Cécile Velluet2, (1)CNRS, Hydrosciences, Montpellier, France, (2)IRD Hydrosciences, Montpellier, France, (3)GET Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, Toulouse, France, (4)IRD-LOCEAN, Paris Cedex 05, France, (5)CNRS-INSU, LTHE, Grenoble, France
Tree-Level Hydrodynamic Approach for Improved Stomatal Conductance Parameterization
Golnazalsadat Mirfenderesgi1, Gil Bohrer1, Ashley M Matheny2 and Valeriy Yu Ivanov3, (1)Ohio State University Main Campus, Civil, Environmental & Geodetic Engineering, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)Ohio State University Main Campus, Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering, Columbus, OH, United States, (3)University of Michigan, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Impact of land use changes on surface feedbacks in sudanian region of West Africa
Sylvie Galle1, Ossenatou Mamadou2, Jean-Martial Cohard3, Christophe Peugeot4, Josiane Seghieri4, Basile Kounouhewa2 and Norbert Cosi Awanou2, (1)IRD Institute for Research and Development, Marseille Cedex 02, France, (2)université abomey Calavi, Cotonou, Benin, (3)Univ. Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, (4)IRD Hydrosciences, Montpellier, France
Soil storage and plant controls on carbon and water fluxes in seasonally dry ecosystems
Rodolfo Marcondes Silva Souza1, Xue Feng2, Giulia Vico3, Romualdo Lima4, Eduardo Souza5, Antonio Antonino1, Suzana Montenegro1 and Amilcare M Porporato6, (1)UFPE Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, (2)Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, (3)SLU Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (4)Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Garanhuns, Brazil, (5)Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Serra Talhada, Brazil, (6)Duke Univ, Durham, NC, United States
Estimating flow concentration and sediment redistribution in shrub-dominated rangeland communities
Sayjro Kossi Nouwakpo, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Mark Weltz, USDA-ARS, Reno, NV, United States, Kenneth C McGwire, DRI Earth & Ecosystem Sciences, Reno, NV, United States and Colleen Rossi, Bureau of Land Management National Operations Center, Salt Lake, UT, United States