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368-2 A Look At Southern Nevada's Soil Moisture Sites During Rainfall Events; SNOTEL, SCAN and the Desert Research Institute SEPHAS Lysimeters.



Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Henry Gonzalez Convention Center, Hall C, Street Level

Douglas Merkler, USDA, Las Vegas, NV, Markus Berli, Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Las Vegas, NV and Michelle Stropky, Geosciences, UNLV, Las Vegas, NV
This talk examines soil moisture data collected from both NRCS SCAN and SNOTEL climate sites to soil moisture data collected from DRI SEPHAS Lysimeter probes.  These sites are assessed as a function of climate on soil formation and moisture regimes. This will focus on the specific storm events that occurred in the Las Vegas Valley during December 2010 as a way to observe the effects of episodic water movement in soil profiles from storm events in different soil moisture regimes within the southern Nevada region.
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