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U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Scientific Investigations Report 2008–5135

Portable Chamber Measurements of Evapotranspiration at the Amargosa Desert Research Site near Beatty, Nye County, Nevada, 2003–06

By C. Amanda Garcia, Michael J. Johnson, Brian J. Andraski, Keith J. Halford, and C. Justin Mayers

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Figure 1. Location of the Amargosa Desert Research Site (ADRS) near Beatty, Nye County, Nevada, and eddy-covariance station and chamber measurement locations adjacent to the waste-disposal facility.

Figure 2. Time series of vapor density during two consecutive measurements showing best fit lines of the steepest intervals at the Amargosa Desert Research Site near Beatty, Nye County, Nevada, May 1, 2005.

Figure 3. Chamber, component-scale evapotranspiration fluxes and net radiation, and total landscape evapotranspiration fluxes at the Amargosa Desert Research Site near Beatty, Nye County, Nevada, May 2, 2005. Evapotranspiration reported as millimeters per day is an instantaneous rate that occurs at the time of measurement.

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