WRIR 01-4195:
Ground-Water Discharge Determined from Estimates of Evapotranspiration, Death Valley Regional Flow System, Nevada and
California
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Table 7. Annual precipitation estimated from bulk precipitation measurements taken at evapotranspiration (ET) sites in Ash Meadows, Oasis Valley, and Death Valley areas, Nevada and California
[Geographic coordinates in degrees, minutes, and seconds and referenced to North American Datum of 1927. Abbreviation of locality: AM, Ash Meadows, Nevada; OV, Oasis Valley, Nevada; DV, Death Valley, California; U, upper; L, lower]
|
Site name |
Latitude |
Longitude |
Annual precipitation (inches) |
Locality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1995 |
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|
Fairbanks Meadow 1 |
36°28'59" |
116°20'18" |
4.26 |
AM |
|
1996 |
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|
36°28'59" |
116°20'18" |
2.36 |
AM |
|
|
1997 |
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|
36°28'59" |
116°20'18" |
4.22 |
AM |
|
|
Springdale 3 |
37°01'13" |
116°43'49" |
5.92 |
OV |
|
1998 |
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|
Fairbanks Meadow 3 |
36°28'59" |
116°20'18" |
7.18 |
AM |
|
Springdale 3 |
37°01'13" |
116°43'49" |
412.58 |
OV |
|
Bare Soil Playa 5 |
36°13'40" |
116°47'07" |
4.26 |
DV |
|
1999 |
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|
Fairbanks Meadow 3 |
36°28'59" |
116°20'18" |
2.34 |
AM |
|
Upper Oasis Valley U 3 |
37°03'49" |
116°41'39" |
4.69 |
OV |
|
Upper Oasis Valley L 3 |
37°02'42" |
116°42'29" |
4.09 |
OV |
|
Bare Soil Playa 5 |
36°13'40" |
116°47'07" |
.75 |
DV |
|
Salt Playa 5 |
36°12'52" |
116°46'29" |
.70 |
DV |
|
Pickleweed 5 |
36°17'12" |
116°53'12" |
1.04 |
DV |
1 Laczniak and others (1999).
2 Precipitation gage moved during year.
3 Reiner and others (2002).
4 Total based on 11 months of data.
5 G.A. DeMeo (U.S. Geological Survey, Las Vegas, written commun., 1999).