Table of Contents
Intro Page
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Competing Demands
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Water Balance in the Semi-Arid Southwest
Sustainability of Water Resources
Science - Policy - Education
Mission
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Five Major Science Thrust Areas
Integration through a Basin Focus
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Role of Remote Sensing as a New Tool
Examples of issues of the semi-arid West
Key Issue
Difficulties in Monitoring Precipitation
Rainfall Estimates from Multi-sources of Data
TRMM Simulation
Satellite-Based Rainfall Estimates (The PERSIANN
System)
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Examples of issues of the semi-arid West
Water balance in semi-arid Southwest
Recharge through semiarid soils
Upper Rio Grande Basin - CO and NM
Recharge through semiarid soils
Vegetation change in the Southwestern US:
Relative areas of sources and sinks controls patterns
of infiltration
Tucson Basin, Arizona
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Important locations for recharge at the basin-scale?
Use of Tracers for studied over many time scales
14C - Long-term Recharge
Importance of Near-real Time Data |
