• 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 ...
    • 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 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 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, ...
    • Water and carbon dynamics in an arid playa of the Chihuahuan Desert 

      Perez Ruiz, Eli Rafael (2023-12-11)
      Ephemeral playas are unique landscapes found in arid and semiarid regions around the world. These lakebeds are often characterized by flat, grassy expanses that may be covered with salt crusts. Playas are formed in closed ...
    • WATER-USE EFFICIENCY IN SEMI-ARID ECOSYSTEMS OF NORTHERN MEXICO 

      Perez Ruiz, Eli Rafael; Tarin, Tonantzin; Yepez, Enrico; Rojas Robles, Nidia; Valenzuela, Yuri; Madueño Madero, Myrbeth Guadalupe; Sanchez Mejia, Zulia Mayari; Rodriguez, Julio Cesar; Vivoni, Enrique; Garatuza Payan, Jaime (2023-12-11)
      Arid and semi-arid ecosystems represent 45% of the world's terrestrial ecosystems and 60% of Mexico's land surface. These regions play an important role in the global C sink variability, due to their response to water ...

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