An arid desert site located on a long flat plain characterized by a red soil with a sparse cover of Mitchell grass. Used for cattle and camel grazing. Ephemeral vegetative growth following heavy tropical thunderstorm activity or slow-moving rain-band activity may be significant but is uncommon. The site has moderate column amounts of water vapor (typically 5 to 40 kg m-1) and aerosol optical depth (typically 0.03 at 0.5 micron). The site is instrumented to monitor continuously the surface radiation budget and meteorological parameters at several points. (Source: AATSR Validation Implementation Plan PO-PL-GAD-AT-005 (3), http://www.leos.le.ac.uk/AATSR/Downloads/AATSR_VIP_Version3.pdf).
Google Earth: Various drainage patterns, small ranges of colors and intensities. The most useable part is limited to a small area about 1 km (E-W) by 2 km (N-S).
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey
