What we learned from the Dust Bowl: lessons in science, policy, and adaptation

RA McLeman, J Dupre, L Berrang Ford, J Ford… - Population and …, 2014 - Springer
This article provides a review and synthesis of scholarly knowledge of Depression-era
droughts on the North American Great Plains, a time and place known colloquially as the …

Multiple causes of wind erosion in the Dust Bowl

JA Lee, TE Gill - Aeolian Research, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Dust Bowl refers to a disaster focused in the Southern Great Plains of North
America during the 1930s, when the region experienced extreme wind erosion. Dry farming …

Evaluation of climate models

G Flato, J Marotzke, B Abiodun, P Braconnot… - Climate change 2013 …, 2014 - pure.mpg.de
Climate models have continued to be developed and improved since the AR4, and many
models have been extended into Earth System models by including the representation of …

Afternoon rain more likely over drier soils

CM Taylor, RAM de Jeu, F Guichard, PP Harris… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Land surface properties, such as vegetation cover and soil moisture, influence the
partitioning of radiative energy between latent and sensible heat fluxes in daytime hours …

Historical meteorological droughts over the CORDEX‐CAM (Central America, Caribbean and Mexico) domain: Evaluating the simulation of dry hot spots with RegCM4

L Andrade‐Gómez, T Cavazos - International Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Historical meteorological droughts are analysed over the Coordinated Regional
Downscaling Experiment‐Central America, Caribbean and Mexico (CORDEX‐CAM) domain …

Uncertainties in future projections of summer droughts and heat waves over the contiguous United States

JE Herrera-Estrada, J Sheffield - Journal of Climate, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Droughts and heat waves have important impacts on multiple sectors including water
resources, agriculture, electricity generation, and public health, so it is important to …

[PDF][PDF] Climate projections for the Midwest: Availability, interpretation and synthesis

JA Winkler, RW Arritt, SC Pryor - US National Climate Assessment …, 2012 - glisa.umich.edu
Climate projections from multiple sources display close agreement regarding future changes
for the Midwest region in annual and seasonal mean temperature, the frequency of …

A mechanistically credible, poleward shift in warm-season precipitation projected for the US Southern Great Plains?

MS Bukovsky, RR McCrary, A Seth… - Journal of …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Global and regional climate model ensembles project that the annual cycle of rainfall over
the southern Great Plains (SGP) will amplify by midcentury. Models indicate that warm …

Ocean and land forcing of the record-breaking Dust Bowl heatwaves across central United States

T Cowan, GC Hegerl, A Schurer, SFB Tett… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The severe drought of the 1930s Dust Bowl decade coincided with record-breaking summer
heatwaves that contributed to the socio-economic and ecological disaster over North …

Global soil moisture bimodality in satellite observations and climate models

L Vilasa, DG Miralles, RAM De Jeu… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A new diagnostic metric based on soil moisture bimodality is developed in order to examine
and compare soil moisture from satellite observations and Earth System Models. The …