scholarly journals Hydrogeologic framework and groundwater characterization in selected alluvial basins in the upper Rio Grande basin, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas, United States, and Chihuahua, Mexico, 1980 to 2015

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie A. Houston ◽  
Jonathan V. Thomas ◽  
Linzy K. Foster ◽  
Diana E. Pedraza ◽  
Toby L. Welborn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Rio Grande Basin ◽  
Upper Rio Grande ◽  
Groundwater Characterization ◽  
Hydrogeologic Framework

scholarly journals Long-Term (1986–2015) Crop Water Use Characterization over the Upper Rio Grande Basin of United States and Mexico Using Landsat-Based Evapotranspiration

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 1587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel B. Senay ◽  
Matthew Schauer ◽  
Naga M. Velpuri ◽  
Ramesh K. Singh ◽  
Stefanie Kagone ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Water Use ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Error Rates ◽  
Crop Water ◽  
Crop Water Use ◽  
Rio Grande Basin ◽  
Upper Rio Grande

The evaluation of historical water use in the Upper Rio Grande Basin (URGB), United States and Mexico, using Landsat-derived actual evapotranspiration (ETa) from 1986 to 2015 is presented here as the first study of its kind to apply satellite observations to quantify long-term, basin-wide crop consumptive use in a large basin. The rich archive of Landsat imagery combined with the Operational Simplified Surface Energy Balance (SSEBop) model was used to estimate and map ETa across the basin and over irrigated fields for historical characterization of water-use dynamics. Monthly ETa estimates were evaluated using six eddy-covariance (EC) flux towers showing strong correspondence (r2 > 0.80) with reasonable error rates (root mean square error between 6 and 19 mm/month). Detailed spatiotemporal analysis using peak growing season (June–August) ETa over irrigated areas revealed declining regional crop water-use patterns throughout the basin, a trend reinforced through comparisons with gridded ETa from the Max Planck Institute (MPI). The interrelationships among seven agro-hydroclimatic variables (ETa, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), land surface temperature (LST), maximum air temperature (Ta), potential ET (ETo), precipitation, and runoff) are all summarized to support the assessment and context of historical water-use dynamics over 30 years in the URGB.

SOILS AND GEOARCHAEOLOGY OF THE UPPER RIO GRANDE BASIN, SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, COLORADO

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelley Jane Ivers ◽  
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Jared M. Beeton ◽  
Jacqueline A. Smith ◽  
Bradley G. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Rio Grande ◽  
San Juan ◽  
San Juan Mountains ◽  
Rio Grande Basin ◽  
Upper Rio Grande

The Earliest People in the Southwest

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Ballenger ◽  
Vance Holliday ◽  
Guadelupe Sanchez
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Rio Grande Valley ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Projectile Point ◽  
Upper Rio Grande ◽  
Point Type

Paleoindian occupations across the Southwest are known largely from surface artifact collections because relatively few in situ sites are known. Clovis is the exception, with one of the world’s highest concentrations of Clovis mammoth kills occurring in southeast Arizona (Murray Springs, Naco, and Lehner). Otherwise Clovis is thinly scattered across New Mexico, Chihuahua, and Sonora. Folsom is the most common Paleoindian projectile point type in the Southwest in terms of numbers, but is largely concentrated in the basins of the Upper Rio Grande valley in New Mexico and Colorado. Unfluted Paleoindian artifact styles are widely scattered throughout the region, but most are concentrated along the Upper Rio Grande valley.

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