Arizona Watershed Stewardship Guide: Arizona Weather & Climate
Arizona Watershed Stewardship Guide was created to help individuals and groups build a mutual foundation of basic knowledge about watersheds in Arizona. It is intended to help Arizonans understand and be good stewards of their watersheds. This guide was designed to compliment the mission of the Arizona Master Watershed Steward Program to educate and train citizens across the state to serve as volunteers in the monitoring, restoration, conservation, and protection of their water and watersheds. This guide consists of 10 self-contained modules which teach one or more important aspects of watershed science or management to a public adult audience.
In this chapter you will learn:
- How to distinguish between weather and climate.
- Major physical processes influencing weather patterns in the Southwest
- How weather impacts Arizona water
- About scale and climate in the southwest
- About drought and climate in Arizona
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Keywords:
- arizona watersheds
- hydrologic cycle
- climate
- weather
Publication Date:
January 2006
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Pages:
14 pp.