• A micrometeorological flux perspective on brush management in a shrub-encroached Sonoran Desert grassland 

      Perez Ruiz, Eli Rafael; Vivoni, Enrique; Scott, Russell; Naito, Adam; Archer, Steven; Biederman, Joel; Templeton, Nicole (2022-02-15)
      Woody plant encroachment typically limits the forage productivity of managed rangelands and alters a panoply of semiarid ecosystem processes and services. Intervention strategies to reduce woody plant abundance, collectively ...
    • A New Hydrometeorological Testbed in Northern Mexico for Improved Weather Forecasts and Climate Monitoring 

      Perez Ruiz, Eli Rafael; Castro, Christopher; Adams, David; Arellano, Avelino; Quintanar, Arturo; Ochoa-Moya, Carlos; Minjarez-Sosa, Carlos; Rodriguez, Julio Cesar; Lizarraga, Carlos; Vivoni, Enrique; Robles, Agustin; Risanto, Bayu; Chang, Hsin-I; Mendoza-Fierro, Lourdes; Moker, James (American Meteorological Society, 2019-01-19)
      In northern Mexico, climate change may translate into an increase in extreme weather and more prolonged drought. The existing capability to monitor, assess, and predict the weather and climate of this region is hindered ...
    • Abiotic Mechanisms Drive Enhanced Evaporative Losses under Urban Oasis Conditions 

      Perez Ruiz, Eli Rafael; Vivoni, Enrique; Kindler, Mercedes; Wang, Zhaocheng (2020-11-28)
      The oasis effect refers to the impact of advected energy on the surface energy balance leading to enhanced evapotranspiration. In this study, we utilize a 1‐yr record of water, energy, and carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes to ...
    • Base de datos de flujos verticales de dioxido de carbono en ecosistemas terrestres y costeros en México 

      Perez Ruiz, Eli Rafael; Delgado-Balbuena, Josué; Yepez, Enrico; Paz Pellat, Fernando; Angeles-Pérez, Gregorio; Aguirre Gutierrez, Carlos Alberto; Alvarado-Barrientos, Maria Susana; Arredondo Moreno, José Tulio; Ayala-Niño, Fernando; Bullock, Stephen H.; Castellanos, Alejandro; Cueva, Alejandro; figueroa-espinoza, bernardo; GARATUZA-PAYAN, JAIME; Gonzalez del Castillo, Eugenia; Gonzalez Sosa, Enrique; Guevara-Escobar, Aurelio; Hinojo Hinojo, César; Paw U, Kyaw Tha; Lizarraga-Celaya, Carlos; Maya, Yolanda; Oechel, Walter; Quesada Avendaño, Mauricio; Robles-Zazueta, Carlos A.; Rodriguez, Julio Cesar; Rojas Robles, Nidia; Tarin Terrazas, Tonantzin; Troyo-Diéguez, Enrique; Uuh-Sonda, Jorge M.; Vargas-Terminel, Martha Lucía; Vargas, Rodrigo; Vega Puga, Masuly; Verduzco, Vivian S.; Vivoni, Enrique; Watts, Christopher (2018-08-01)
      El dióxido de carbono (CO2) es uno de los principales gases de efecto invernadero (GEI) cuyo incremento en la atmósfera está asociado con el calentamiento global. Con el objetivo de promover estudios de síntesis que lleven ...
    • Hillslope to channel hydrologic connectivity in a dryland ecosystem 

      Perez Ruiz, Eli Rafael; Keller, Zachary; Vivoni, Enrique; Kimsal, Charles; Robles Morua, Agustin (2023-11-27)
      Hydrologic connectivity refers to the processes and thresholds leading to water transport across a landscape. In dryland ecosystems, runoff production is mediated by the arrangement of vegetation and bare soil patches on ...
    • Intercambio neto de carbono en ecosistemas semiáridos de México 

      Perez Ruiz, Eli Rafael; Delgado-Balbuena, Josué; Yepez, Enrico; Angeles-Pérez, Gregorio; Arredondo, Tulio; Ayala-Niño, Fernando; Bullock, Stephen; Castellanos, Alejandro; Cueva, Alejandro; Figueroa-Espinoza, Bernardo; Garatuza-Payan, Jaime; Hinojo-Hinojo, Cesar; Maya-Delgado, Yolanda; Mendez-Barroso, Luis; Oechel, Walter; Paz-Pellat, Fernando; Rodriguez, Julio Cesar; Rojas-Robles, Nidia; Sanchez-Mejia, Zulia; Uuh-Sonda, Jorge; Vargas, Rodrigo; Vivoni, Enrique; Watts, Christopher (Programa Mexicano del Carbono, 2018-05-01)
      Los ecosistemas terrestres controlan la dinámica del CO2 en la atmósfera a través de los procesos de fotosíntesis y respiración. El entendimiento de los factores que afectan las tasas de captura y liberación de carbono (C) ...
    • Intercambio neto del ecosistema en tres ecosistemas de la zona del monzón de Norteamérica 

      Perez Ruiz, Eli Rafael (Programa Mexicano del Carbono A. C., 2018-10-01)
      El monzón de Norteamérica se caracteriza por un cambio drástico en las condiciones meteorológicas y los flujos de materia y energía entre la superficie y la atmosfera debido a un incremento sustancial de precipitación en ...
    • Intercambio neto del ecosistema en tres ecosistemas en la zona del monzón de Norteamérica 

      Perez Ruiz, Eli Rafael (Programa Mexicano del Carbono, 2018-05-01)
      El Monzón de Norteamérica se caracteriza por un cambio drástico en las condiciones meteorológicas y los flujos de materia y energía entre la superficie y la atmósfera debido a un incremento sustancial de precipitación ...
    • Investigating Field-Scale Soil Moisture at Upland Watershed and Ephemeral Lake Sites Using Stationary and Roving Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing 

      Perez Ruiz, Eli Rafael; Hurtado, Ruby; Vivoni, Enrique; Franz, Trenton; Gonzales, Nicole; Hardgrove, Craig; Robles Morua, Agustin; Kimsal, Charles; Becerra, Jose (2023-12-11)
      In water-limited environments, such as the southwestern United States, soil moisture plays a crucial role in atmospheric, hydrologic, and ecologic processes. Precipitation events serve as the primary source of water to ...
    • Landscape Controls on Water‐Energy‐Carbon Fluxes Across Different Ecosystems During the North American Monsoon 

      Perez Ruiz, Eli Rafael (2021-04-28)
      The dependence of arid and semiarid ecosystems on seasonal rainfall is not well understood when sites have access to groundwater. Gradients in terrain conditions in northwest México can help explore this dependence as ...
    • Linking carbon exchanges to watershed dynamics in a mixed shrubland of the Chihuahuan Desert 

      Perez Ruiz, Eli Rafael (AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2019-12-01)
      Water availability plays a fundamental role in the ecosystem responses in the North American monsoon (NAM) region. Summer precipitation pulses trigger a variety of biophysical processes that impact land surface-atmosphere ...
    • Linking Latent Heat Fluxes to Column Water Vapor: Results from the North American Monsoon GPS Hydrometeorological Network Experiment 2017 

      Perez Ruiz, Eli Rafael; Lintner, Benjamin; Adams, David; Scott, Russell; Vivoni, Enrique; Gonzalez, Maria Isabel; Hazenberg, Pieter; Minjarez, Carlos; Rodriguez, Julio Cesar; Serra, Yolande; Haase, Jennifer; Tannenbaum, Sarah (American Meteorological Society, 2020-01-13)
      The disparity in spatial and temporal scales of soil moisture, latent heat fluxes (LHF), and water vapor (planetary boundary layer (PBL) and free tropospheric water vapor) from flux towers is one of the challenging aspects ...
    • Linking watershed water balance dynamics to carbon fluxes in two woody-plant encroached ecosystems in the southwestern US 

      Perez Ruiz, Eli Rafael (AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2020-12-01)
      Woody plant encroachment is the increase of shrubby plants in grasslands and is typically associated with ecosystem degradation and typically entailing an increase in bare soil connectivity and erosion that can modify land ...
    • Long‐term research catchments to investigate shrub encroachment in the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts: Santa Rita and Jornada experimental ranges 

      Perez Ruiz, Eli Rafael; Vivoni, Enrique; Keller, Zachary; Escoto, Eric; Templeton, Ryan; Templeton, Nolie; Anderson, Cody; Schreiner-McGraw, Adam; Mendez-Barroso, Luis; Robles-Morua, Agustin; Scott, Russell; Archer, Steven; Peters, Debra (2021-01-02)
      Woody plant encroachment is a global phenomenon whereby shrubs or trees replace grasses. The hydrological consequences of this ecological shift are of broad interest in ecohydrology, yet little is known of how plant and ...
    • Response of Coupled Water-Energy-Carbon Dynamics to North American Monsoon in Three Woodland Ecosystems: Results from GPS Hydrometeorological Network 2017 

      Perez Ruiz, Eli Rafael (AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2018-12-01)
      The North American Monsoon (NAM) is characterized by a dramatic shift in meteorological conditions that affect coupled ecohydrological dynamics. To study the coupling of water-energy and carbon (W-E-C) fluxes, a dense ...
    • Seasonal carryover of water and effects on carbon dynamics in a dryland ecosystem 

      Perez Ruiz, Eli Rafael (2022-07-19)
      Net primary productivity in arid and semiarid regions is controlled by water availability for which rainfall has been a commonly used proxy at annual scales. However, the hydrological partitioning occurring through the ...
    • The North American Monsoon GPS Hydrometeorological Network 2017 

      Perez Ruiz, Eli Rafael; Granados-Olivas, Alfredo; Vazquez-Galvez, Felipe; Adams, David; Vivoni, Enrique; Lintner, Benjamin; Minjarez-Sosa, Carlos; Serra, Yolande; Rodriguez, Julio Cesar; Verduzco, Vivian; Barffuson, Felipe; Grutter, Michel; Haase, Jennifer; Liang, Hong; Cabral-Cano, Enrique; Gochis, David; Yepez, Enrico; Robles-Morua, Agustin; Bezanilla, Alejandro; Del Rio Salas, Rafael; Quintanar, Arturo; Ochoa-Moya, Carlos; Salazar-Tlaczani, L (American Meteorological Society, 2018-01-10)
      Debates surrounding the importance of moisture recycling as a moisture source for the North American Monsoon have resurfaced in recent years. Several studies, employing modeling and observational approaches, describe a ...
    • Urban land cover type determines the sensitivity of carbon dioxide fluxes to precipitation in Phoenix, Arizona 

      Perez Ruiz, Eli Rafael (2020-02-12)
      Urbanization modifies land surface characteristics with consequent impacts on local energy, water, and carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes. Despite the disproportionate impact of cities on CO2 emissions, few studies have directly ...
    • Urban Land Cover Type Influences CO2 Fluxes within Phoenix, Arizona 

      Perez Ruiz, Eli Rafael (American Meteorological Society, 2019-01-07)
      Modification of land surface characteristics by urbanization should have an impact on local energy, water and carbon cycles. For instance, cities are responsible for more than 70% of the global anthropogenic CO2 emissions, ...
    • VARIABILIDAD TEMPORAL DE LA TASA DE INFILTRACIÓN DEL SUELO EN UNA CUENCA SEMIÁRIDA DEL DESIERTO CHIHUAHUENSE 

      Perez Ruiz, Eli Rafael (Sociedad Mexicana de la Ciencia del Suelo, 2023-10-01)
      La hidrología de los ecosistemas áridos y semiáridos de la zona del Monzón de Norteamérica está marcada por la variabilidad espacial y temporal en las fuentes de agua y en la disponibilidad de recursos hídricos. La tasa ...

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