Evapotranspiration and Irrigation of Residential Turfgrass Lawns in Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, and Tallahassee

This dataset was collected in Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, and Tallahassee. We studied residential yards that represented a range of household income and vegetative cover categories. The dataset contains turfgrass evapotranspiration (ET), atmospheric temperature and relative humidity, intensity of incoming solar radiation, grass surface temperature, volumetric water content of the soil at 0–5 cm, irrigation depth over a single irrigation event, and the frequency of lawn irrigation reported by the residents. ET was calculated from humidity measurements made by HOBO dataloggers every 1 second inside small chambers during 10 seconds after chamber placement.