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A Long-term Perspective on Drought in the Great Plains and West

University of Nebraska - Lincoln Digital Commons


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Title A Long-term Perspective on Drought in the Great Plains and West
 
Creator Fritz, Sherilyn C.
 
Description Management of water resources requires an understanding of the full range of natural variability and its consequences. The weather record, which spans the last 100 years or so, provides a snapshot of the contemporary history of drought and its impacts, but this record is relatively short and is inadequate for understanding long-term trends or for evaluating the magnitude of human impacts. A variety of so-called paleoclimatic records - such as tree rings, lake sediments, and sand dunes -...
 
Date 2006-11-29
 
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/watercenterpubs/3
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=watercenterpubs
 
Source Faculty Publications from The Water Center
 
Publisher DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln
 
Subject Water Resource Management
 
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