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Quantifying Outdoor Water Consumption of Urban Land Use/Land Cover: Sensitivity to Drought

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  • Shai Kaplan

    (School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning)

  • Soe W. Myint

    (School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning)

  • Chao Fan

    (School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning)

  • Anthony J. Brazel

    (School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning)

Abstract

Outdoor water use is a key component in arid city water systems for achieving sustainable water use and ensuring water security. Using evapotranspiration (ET) calculations as a proxy for outdoor water consumption, the objectives of this research are to quantify outdoor water consumption of different land use and land cover types, and compare the spatio-temporal variation in water consumption between drought and wet years. An energy balance model was applied to Landsat 5 TM time series images to estimate daily and seasonal ET for the Central Arizona Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research region (CAP-LTER). Modeled ET estimations were correlated with water use data in 49 parks within CAP-LTER and showed good agreement (r 2 = 0.77), indicating model effectiveness to capture the variations across park water consumption. Seasonally, active agriculture shows high ET (>500 mm) for both wet and dry conditions, while the desert and urban land cover types experienced lower ET during drought (

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  • Shai Kaplan & Soe W. Myint & Chao Fan & Anthony J. Brazel, 2014. "Quantifying Outdoor Water Consumption of Urban Land Use/Land Cover: Sensitivity to Drought," Environmental Management, Springer, vol. 53(4), pages 855-864, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:envman:v:53:y:2014:i:4:d:10.1007_s00267-014-0245-7
    DOI: 10.1007/s00267-014-0245-7
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