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Drought in the Great Plains


Drought and land-cover conditions in the Great Plains

Land–atmosphere interactions play a critical role in the Earth system, and a better understanding of these interactions could improve weather and climate ...

National Climate Assessment: Great Plains' Ogallala Aquifer drying out

In the early twentieth century, farmers converted large stretches of the Great Plains from grassland to cropland. Drought and stress on the ...

Summary of the Great Plains Drought Area Committee's Preliminary ...

Our proposals will look toward the greatest possible degree of stabilization of the region's economy, a higher and more secure income for each family.

The Dust Bowl | Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945

Between 1930 and 1940, the southwestern Great Plains region of the United States suffered a severe drought.

Southern Great Plains - Fourth National Climate Assessment

Texas experienced several major wildfire outbreaks during the drought of 2011, including the Bastrop Fire that destroyed more than 1,500 homes. More recently in ...

Dust Bowl: Causes, Definition & Years | HISTORY

Severe drought hit the Midwest and southern Great Plains in 1930. Massive dust storms began in 1931. A series of drought years followed ...

Why do summer droughts in the Southern Great Plains occur in ...

The drought development in La Niña years is related to an anomalous warming over the tropical North Atlantic in spring and an anomalous negative ...

Forum: Critical Decision Dates for Drought Management in Central ...

Drought occurs about 30% of the time in the northern Great Plains (Smart et al. 2005). During drought, livestock producers are concerned with 1) having adequate ...

Dry Farming in the Northern Great Plains - University Press of Kansas

Dry farming has proved successful in the northern Great Plains, Hargreaves contends. That success is measured not only by production but also by limited erosion ...

An Interpretation of the Origins of the 2012 Central Great Plains ...

This is a characteristic quite different from that of the prior year's southern Plains drought that spanned October 2010-August 2011, and for ...

2000 Years of Drought Variability in the Central United States

Severe droughts of the twentieth century have had large impacts on economies, society, and the environment, especially in the Great Plains. However, the ...

Drought and Precipitation Fluctuations in the Great Plains during the ...

Recurring drought has had marked economic and agricultural consequences in the Great Plains region of the United States since. Euro-American settlement began in ...

Encyclopedia of the Great Plains | DROUGHT

Drought is a complex, recurrent, and insidious natural hazard that inflicts considerable pain and hardship on Plains residents.

Farmers in the Plains are in 'dire straits' due to drought, wildfire ...

Even with a few recent rains, much of the Great Plains are in a drought. Wildfires have swept across the grasslands and farmers are worried ...

(PDF) Drought in the western Great Plains, 1845-56. Impacts and ...

Drought in the Western Great Plains, 1845-56 ... A sustained mid-nineteenth-century drought in the western Great Plains has been indicated by a tree-ring analysis ...

How the Great Plains Dust Bowl drought spread heat extremes ...

It has only been in the 21st century that human populations in these regions of the Northern Hemisphere have experienced heat extremes ...

Drought in the Great Plains: a case study of research on climate and ...

Semantic Scholar extracted view of "Drought in the Great Plains: a case study of research on climate and society in the USA." by R. Warrick.

Drought of the 1950's with Special Reference to the Midcontinent

seems to preclude the possibility of accurately predicting droughts. Drought will continue to recur in the Great Plains, but the onset time of the next one ...

Drought on the Great Plains - NASA Earth Observatory

Across the Great Plains of the United States and Canada, devastating drought spread across grasslands and croplands in summer 2006.

DROUGHT IN THE WESTERN GREAT PLAINS, 1845–56

Studies focusing on regional droughts in the eastern and southern Great Plains. (Iowa, Arkansas, Texas; Blasing and Duvick 1984;. Stahle et al. 1985; Stahle and ...


Drought in the Great Plains