Where Are the Great Plains? A Cartographic Analysis

Rossum, Sonja; Lavin, Stephen

doi:10.1111/0033-0124.00245

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“…For example, Rossum and Lavin (2000) noted that ''no single, clear boundary exists no matter how detailed the study, or accurate the measurements.'' For example, Rossum and Lavin (2000) noted that ''no single, clear boundary exists no matter how detailed the study, or accurate the measurements.''…”

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Drought and Pluvial Dipole Events within the Great Plains of the United States

Christian

Basara

2015

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

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The purpose of this study was to quantify dipole events (a drought year followed by a pluvial year) for various spatial scales including the nine Oklahoma climate divisions and the author-defined regions of the U.S. Southern Great Plains (SGP), High Plains (HP), and Northern Great Plains (NGP). Analyses revealed that, on average, over twice as many standard deviation (STDEV) dipoles existed in the latter half of the dataset relative to the first half , suggesting that dramatic increases in precipitation from one year to the next within the Oklahoma climate divisions are increasing with time. For the larger regions within the Great Plains of the United States, the percent chance of a significant pluvial year following a significant drought year was approximately 25% of the time for the SGP and NGP and approximately 16% of the time for the HP. The STDEV dipole analyses further revealed that the frequency of dipoles was consistent between the first and second half of the dataset for the NGP and HP but was increasing with time in the SGP. The temporal periods of anomalous precipitation during relative pluvial years within the STDEV dipole events were unique for each region whereby October occurred most frequently (70%) within the SGP, September occurred most frequently (60%) within the HP, and May occurred most frequently (62%) within the NGP.

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Drought and Pluvial Dipole Events within the Great Plains of the United States

Christian

Basara

2015

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

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“…The study domain is the expansive and variously-defined (Rossum & Lavin, 2000) region of the U.S. Great Plains (Fig. 1).…”

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Land surface phenology along urban to rural gradients in the U.S. Great Plains

Walker

Beurs

Henebry

2015

Remote Sensing of Environment

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“…In this study, we use the NCA3 Great Plains region boundary and a set of ecoregions defined by Omernik (1987) to investigate both the overall relationship and subregional relationships between drought and land cover (Figure 1). The specific geographic boundaries of the Great Plains vary depending on the criteria used (Rossum and Lavin 2000). The NCA3 (Melillo et al 2014) used administrative boundaries based on a set of contiguous states to define the Great Plains.…”

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Drought and Land-Cover Conditions in the Great Plains

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Land–atmosphere interactions play a critical role in the Earth system, and a better understanding of these interactions could improve weather and climate models. The interaction among drought, vegetation productivity, and land cover is of particular significance. In a semiarid environment, such as the U.S. Great Plains, droughts can have a large influence on the productivity of agriculture and grasslands, with serious environmental and economic impacts. Here, we used the vegetation drought response index (VegDRI) drought indicator to investigate the response of vegetation to weather and climate for land-cover types in the Great Plains in the United States from 1989 to 2012. We found that analysis that focused on land-cover types within ecoregion divisions provided substantially more and land-cover-based detail on the timing and intensity of drought than did summarizing across the entire Great Plains region. In the northern Great Plains, VegDRI measured more frequent drought impacts on vegetation in the western ecoregions than in the eastern ecoregions. Across the ecoregions of the Great Plains, drought impacts on vegetation were more commonly found in grassland than in cropland. For example, in the “Northwestern Great Plains” ecoregion (which encompasses areas of Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska), grassland and nonirrigated cropland were observed in VegDRI to have historical fractional drought coverages in the growing season of 17% and 11%, respectively.

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Where Are the Great Plains? A Cartographic Analysis

Cited by 36 publications

References 4 publications

Drought and Pluvial Dipole Events within the Great Plains of the United States

Drought and Pluvial Dipole Events within the Great Plains of the United States

Land surface phenology along urban to rural gradients in the U.S. Great Plains

Drought and Land-Cover Conditions in the Great Plains

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