Heavy Rainfall: Contrasting Two Concurrent Great Plains Thunderstorms

Contrasting above- and belowground sensitivity of three Great Plains grasslands to altered rainfall regimes.

Intensification of the global hydrological cycle with atmospheric warming is expected to increase interannual variation in precipitation amount and the frequency of extreme precipitation events. Although studies in grasslands have shown sensitivity of aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) to both precipitation amount and event size, we lack equivalent knowledge for responses of belowgroun...

Lightning charge moment changes in U.S. High Plains thunderstorms

[1] We report measurements of impulsive (2 ms) lightning charge moment changes in more than 1000 cloud-to-ground (CG) return strokes detected by the National Lightning Detection Network in three United States High Plains storms during the Severe Thunderstorm Electrification and Precipitation Study (STEPS) field program of 2000. The positive CG strokes (+CGs) in a mesoscale convective system exh...

A Great Plains Presidential Primary?

This paper examines the feasibility of establishing a regional presidential primary for the Great Plains States. It reviews the introduction ofprimaries for selecting national convention delegates, and the slowness of these states to adopt this method. Further, it surveys the use of the primary in the region, noting the independence ofGreat Plains voters in both the prereform and post-reform pe...

Birds of the Great Plains: Three Decades of Change in Great Plains Birds: A 2009 Supplement to The Birds of the Great Plains: Breeding Species and Their Distribution

Weeds [from Encyclopedia of the Great Plains]