HESS Hydrology and Earth System Sciences HESS Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 1607-7938 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/hess-13-945-2009 An overview of the LOess Plateau mesa region land surface process field EXperiment series (LOPEXs) Wen J. 1 Wang L. 1 Wei Z. G. 1 Key Laboratory for Climate-Environment and Disasters of Western China, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China 29 06 2009 13 6 945 951 Copyright: © 2009 J. Wen et al. 2009 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is available from https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/13/945/2009/hess-13-945-2009.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/13/945/2009/hess-13-945-2009.pdf

A series of land surface process field experiments were carried out in a mesa region of the Chinese Loess Plateau in each of the years from 2004 to 2008 (acronymized as LOPEX04, LOPEX08, etc.). The general objectives of this series of experiments, observational data sets, and preliminary science results are presented in this paper. The prospective research topics by using the LOPEXs data sets are discussed.

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