Vadose zone temperature measurements at a site in the Northern Albuquerque Basin indicate ground-surface warming due to urbanization

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 353-360

  Reiter, Marshall ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental geophysics; Ground surface temperature warming

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION; WATER ANALYSIS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DEPTH DETERMINATION; FLUID FLOW; PIEZOMETER; SENSOR; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; URBANIZATION; VADOSE ZONE;

ALBUQUERQUE BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34248673723     PISSN: 10787275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gseegeosci.12.4.353     Document Type: Article

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