Phoenix
Measuring how water and heat move in a desert city
Congratulations to the team from the Center for Hydrologic Innovations that was recently featured by the Arizona Water Innovation Initiative! Research Assistant Professor Nidia Rojas-Robles, Research Technologist Alonso Haros, Laboratory Manager Efrain Vizuete, and PhD student Khayrun Mitu have deployed and maintained a new urban network of eddy covariance towers in Phoenix.
Center efforts featured in Arizona Water Innovation Initiative
The Arizona Water Innovation Initiative (AWII) featured our efforts on drought and heat wave monitoring in Arizona and the exceptional hot drought of 2023. See blog at the link below:
WRR Publication
A new publication in Water Resources Research (Wiechman et al., 2024) present a modeling approach to trace the flow of water, information, and investment in a general urban water system and apply it for three cities in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Congratulations to authors associated with the Center for Hydrologic Innovations!