The variation of warm season precipitation over the Northern Plains: the spring-fall mode and the contribution of the Great Plains low-level jet

• Main Author: Wang, Shih-Yu
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Iowa State University Digital Repository 2004
• Subjects: Geological and atmospheric sciences; Meteorology; Greenland; Pacific; Tilting; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/20304; https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=21303&context=rtd

Both the seasonal and interannual variations of the warm season precipitation over the Great Plains are crucial to agriculture. The largest amount of season precipitation occurs during late spring over the Northern Plains and can be well represented by the spring-fall mode through the empirical orth...