Water-level changes in the high plains aquifer, predevelopment to 2003 and 2002 to 2003

McGuire, Virginia L.

doi:10.3133/fs20043097

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“…In the THP, irrigation alone uses approximately 89% of the water pumped from the Ogallala Aquifer (Dennehy 2000). McGuire (2004) indicated that the change in water storage in the aquifer beneath the THP, from predevelopment to 2003, was about 164.1 km 3 (5.2 km 3 from 2002 to 2003) with an average area-weighted water-level decline of 10.6 m (0.37 m from 2002 to 2003). For this reason and considering the positive trends in population growth in the THP, there is a need for greater efficiency in irrigation water management for agriculture.…”

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Radiometric surface temperature calibration effects on satellite based evapotranspiration estimation

Chávez

Gowda

Howell

et al. 2009

International Journal of Remote Sensing

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Agriculture on the Texas High Plains (THP) uses approximately 89% of groundwater withdrawals from the Ogallala Aquifer, leading to steady decline in water table levels. Therefore, efficient water management is essential for sustaining agricultural production in the THP. Accurate evapotranspiration (ET) maps provide critical information on actual spatio-temporal crop water use. METRIC (Mapping Evapotranspiration at High Resolution using Internalized Calibration) is a remote sensing based energy balance method that uses radiometric surface temperature (T s ) for mapping ET. However, T s calibration effects on satellite based ET estimation are less known. Further, METRIC has never been applied for the advective conditions of the semi-arid THP. In this study, METRIC was applied and predicted ET was compared with measured values from five monolithic weighing lysimeters at the USDA-ARS Conservation and Production Research Laboratory in Bushland, Texas, USA. Three different levels of calibration were applied on a Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper's thermal image acquired on 23 July 2006 to derive T s . Application of METRIC on a MODTRAN calibrated image improved the accuracy of distributed ET prediction. In addition, ET estimates were further improved when a THP-specific model was used for estimating leaf area index. Results indicated that METRIC performed well with ET mean bias error¡root mean square error of 0.4¡0.7 mm d 21 .

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Radiometric surface temperature calibration effects on satellite based evapotranspiration estimation

Chávez

Gowda

Howell

et al. 2009

International Journal of Remote Sensing

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“…The aquifer is unconfined with saturated thickness from 0 to 300 m (mean 60 m) and water‐table depth from 0 to 150 m (mean 30 m) [ Dennehy , 2000]. Extensive GW‐monitoring campaigns have been conducted annually since 1988 to produce GW‐level maps and to estimate GWS changes (∼9,200 wells monitored in 2003 [ McGuire , 2004]).…”

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Comparison of seasonal terrestrial water storage variations from GRACE with groundwater‐level measurements from the High Plains Aquifer (USA)

Strassberg¹,

Scanlon²,

Rodell³

2007

Geophysical Research Letters

186

134

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[1] This study presents the first comparison of seasonal groundwater storage (GWS) variations derived from GRACE satellite data with groundwater-level measurements in the High Plains Aquifer, USA (450,000 km 2 ). Correlation between seasonal GRACE terrestrial water storage (TWS) and the sum of GWS estimated from field measurements (2,700 wells) and soil moisture (SM) simulated by a land surface model is high (R = 0.82). Correlation between GRACE-derived and measured GWS is also significant (R = 0.58). Seasonal GRACE-derived TWS and GWS changes were detectable (! uncertainty) in 7 and 5 out of 9 monitored periods respectively whereas maximum changes (between winter/spring and summer/fall) in TWS and GWS were detectable in all 5 monitored periods. These results show the potential for GRACE to monitor GWS changes in semiarid regions where irrigation pumpage causes large seasonal GWS variations. Citation: Strassberg, G., B. R.Scanlon, and M. Rodell (2007), Comparison of seasonal terrestrial water storage variations from GRACE with groundwater-level measurements from the High Plains Aquifer (USA), Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L14402,

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“…This is in part because of water levels of High Plains Aquifer. Within the Sand Hills declines in aquifer levels are much less than in the Red Hills, which has experienced significant declines in the aquifer water level (Sophocleous 2000; McGuire 2004).…”

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Habitat relationships with fish assemblages in minimally disturbed Great Plains regions

Fischer¹,

Paukert

2008

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

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– Effects of local environmental influences on the structure of fish assemblages were evaluated from 159 sites in two regions of the Great Plains with limited anthropogenic disturbance. These regions offered an opportunity to evaluate the structure and variation of streams and fish assemblages within the Great Plains. We used canonical correspondence analyses to determine the influence of environmental conditions on species abundances, species occurrences and assemblage characteristics. Analysis of regions separately indicated that similar environmental factors structured streams and fish assemblages, despite differences in environmental conditions and species composition between regions. Variance in fish abundance and assemblage characteristics from both regions was best explained by metrics of stream size and associated metrics (width, depth, conductivity and instream cover). Our results provide a framework and reference for conditions and assemblage structure in North American prairie streams.

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Water-level changes in the high plains aquifer, predevelopment to 2003 and 2002 to 2003

Cited by 23 publications

References 5 publications

Radiometric surface temperature calibration effects on satellite based evapotranspiration estimation

Radiometric surface temperature calibration effects on satellite based evapotranspiration estimation

Comparison of seasonal terrestrial water storage variations from GRACE with groundwater‐level measurements from the High Plains Aquifer (USA)

Habitat relationships with fish assemblages in minimally disturbed Great Plains regions

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