Land–Atmosphere Interaction in a Semiarid Region: The Bunny Fence Experiment

Southwestern Australia, with a semiarid Mediterranean climate, has been extensively cleared of native vegetation for winter-growing agricultural species. The resultant reduction in evapotranspiration has increased land salinisation. Through detailed meteorological and vegetation measurements over bo...

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Published in:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 1993-07, Vol.74 (7), p.1327-1334
Main Authors: Lyons, T. J., Schwerdtfeger, P., Hacker, J. M., Foster, I. J., Smith, R. C. G., Xinmei, Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural land
Agriculture
Aircraft
Artificial satellites
Atmosphere
Climate change
Climate models
Convection, turbulence, diffusion. Boundary layer structure and dynamics
Crops
Earth, ocean, space
Exact sciences and technology
External geophysics
Fences
Land use
Meteorology
Meteors
Salinization
Semiarid lands
Vegetation
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Summary:Southwestern Australia, with a semiarid Mediterranean climate, has been extensively cleared of native vegetation for winter-growing agricultural species. The resultant reduction in evapotranspiration has increased land salinisation. Through detailed meteorological and vegetation measurements over both agricultural and native vegetation, the bunny fence experiment is addressing the impact on the climate of replacing native perennial vegetation with winter-growing annual species. Such measurements will give a better understanding of the interaction between the land surface and the atmosphere and are important for improved parameterization of the boundary layer in climate models.
ISSN:0003-0007
1520-0477
DOI:10.1175/1520-0477(1993)074<1327:LIIASR>2.0.CO;2