SUMO Micrometeorology
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research
- Oklahoma State University
- USGS Southwest Biological Science Center
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- University of New Mexico
- Mohle Adams
- Fossil Creek Nursery
The Los Alamos Survival–Mortality experiment (SUMO) is located on Frijoles Mesa near Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA, at an elevation of 2150 m. This was a tree manipulation study that investigated the relative impacts of drought and warming on plant function and reveals how trees adapt to drought and heat in semi-arid regions. The study factored the role of tree hydraulic acclimation to both precipitation and temperature and separated their effects.The experiment is located in a pinon-juniper woodland near the ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forest ecotone. Daily average ambient micrometeorological conditions at the SUMO site. See SUMO Target Tree Information data package (doi:10.15485/1440544) for additional information. Data released by Los Alamos National Lab for public use under LA-UR-18-23656.
- Research Organization:
- Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem (ESS-DIVE) (United States); Vegetation Survival-Mortality (SUMO)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- U.S. DOE > Office of Science > Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- OSTI ID:
- 1454272
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION
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