Expected Science Products

General

• Support IGBP, GEWEX and ISLSCP inititives
• Support GLCTS baseline data
• Network existing data sources

Soil Moisture

• Improvement of Land-Surface modeling schemes
  • GCM Initialization/Process Studies
  • Mesoscale Initialization/Process Studies
• Local Area Validation Studies
  • SE Arizona/Mexico / San Pedro watershed
  • CART/ARM site / Arkansas/Red watershed

Soils

• Define local pedons and relate to climate models

Plant Dynamics

• Validate seasonality and productivity of native vegetation
• Compare satellite and local representative measures of LAI

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