Huey Creek is a meltwater stream that flows into the north end of Lake Fryxell in Taylor Valley. We conducted a comparative study to determine flow balances, flow routing in Huey Creek in 2006. The hypothesis is that truncated hydrographs on Huey Creek (and other streams) are related to large subsurface storage potential that fills/empties over the daily flood pulse. The goal of the simulation and experimental data comparison described here is to use a coupled groundwater / surface flow model to test this hypothesis.
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This is the data and metatada for modeled Long Wave Radiation - part of six modeled parameters that comprise the Taylor Valley Glacier Melt modeling
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We use metacommunity simulations to understand how local and regional community assembly dynamics influence the regional biodiversity patterns that we observe in the McMurdo Dry Valleys ecosystem. A metacommunity refers to a network of communities in an ecosystem that are connected to one another by the dispersal of biota among sites. For example, ponds in the McMurdo Dry Valleys share common diatom species that are likely dispersed among neighboring ponds by wind.
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This is the data and metatada for modeled Short Wave Radiation - part of six modeled parameters that comprise the Taylor Valley Galcier Melt modeling
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This is the data and metatada for the micromet inputs - the parameter and support data to produce six modeled parameters that comprise the Taylor Valley Galcier Melt modeling datasets
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This is the data and metatada for modeled Relative Humidity - part of six modeled parameters that comprise the Taylor Valley Galcier Melt modeling
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This is the data and metatada for modeled Air Temperature - part of six modeled parameters that comprise the Taylor Valley Galcier Melt modeling
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This is the data and metatada for modeled Wind Speed - part of six modeled parameters that comprise the Taylor Valley Galcier Melt modeling
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This is the data and metatada for modeled Wind Direction - part of six modeled parameters that comprise the Taylor Valley Galcier Melt modeling
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Long-term ecological field surveys from the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research program (MCM LTER) have documented the abundance and diversity of microbial mat types across ephemeral glacial meltwater streams in the McMurdo Dry Valleys region of Antarctica. However, field surveys are limited and are incapable of being performed across the entirety of streams within a field season.