Open AccessAtmosphere-Land-Surface Interaction over the Southern Great Plains: Diagnosis of Mechanisms from SGP ARM Data
Author(s) -
Sumant Nigam
Publication year - 2013
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/1061466
Subject(s) - climatology , atmosphere (unit) , flood myth , environmental science , water balance , geography , geology , meteorology , archaeology , geotechnical engineering
Work reported included analysis of pentad (5 day) averaged data, proposal of a hypothesis concerning the key role of the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation in 20th century drought and wet periods over the Great Plains, analysis of recurrent super-synoptic evolution of the Great Plains low-level jet, and study of pentad evolution of the 1988 drought and 1993 flood over the Great Plains from a NARR perspective on the atmospheric and terrestrial water balance