Short-term solar radiation forecast using total sky imager via transfer learning by Prajowal Manandhar, Marouane Temimi, Zeyar Aung

“…This paper proposes a short-term forecasting approach based on transfer learning using Total Sky-Imager (TSI) images of the Southern Great Plains (SGP) site obtained from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) dataset. …”
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Why do general circulation models overestimate the aerosol cloud lifetime effect? A case study comparing CAM5 and a CRM by C. Zhou, J. E. Penner

“…Here, we simulate shallow warm clouds on 27 May 2011 at the southern Great Plains (SGP) measurement site established by the Department of Energy's (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program using a single-column version of a global climate model (Community Atmosphere Model or CAM) and a cloud resolving model (CRM). …”
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Sensitivity Analysis of b-factor in Microwave Emission Model for Soil Moisture Retrieval: A Case Study for SMAP Mission by Dugwon Seo, Tarendra Lakhankar, Reza Khanbilvardi

“…The analysis is carried out using Passive and Active L and S-band airborne sensor (PALS) and measured field soil moisture from Southern Great Plains experiment (SGP99). The results show that the relative sensitivity of the b-factor is 86% in wet soil condition and 88% in high vegetated condition compared to the sensitivity of the soil moisture. …”
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Plants regulate grassland arthropod communities through biomass, quality, and habitat heterogeneity by Rebecca M. Prather, Michael Kaspari

“…In a sandy, mixed‐grass prairie in the southern Great Plains, we used clipping and NPK fertilization to manipulate plant biomass, habitat heterogeneity, and plant quality to quantify their relative effects on the abundance and diversity of its arthropod community. …”
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Convectively Induced Secondary Circulations and Wind‐Driven Heat Fluxes in the Surface Energy Balance Over Land by Seth Colston, Ian N. Williams

“…Our findings from the US Southern Great Plains are broadly relevant to modeling convective boundary layers. …”
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Concurrent increases in wet and dry extremes projected in Texas and combined effects on groundwater by Jin-Ho Yoon, S-Y Simon Wang, Min-Hui Lo, Wen-Ying Wu

“…Despite the precipitation increase projected for the southern Great Plains, groundwater storage is likely to decrease in the long run with diminishing groundwater recharge; this is due to the concurrent increases and strengthening in drought offsetting the effect of added rains. …”
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Characterizing uncertainty in deep convection triggering using explainable machine learning by Miller, GA, Stier, P, Christensen, HM

“…The model uses observed large-scale atmospheric variables from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement constrained variational analysis dataset over the Southern Great Plains, US. The analysis of feature importance shows which mechanisms driving convection are most important, with large-scale vertical velocity providing the highest predictive power for more certain, or easier to predict, convective events, followed by the dynamic generation rate of dilute convective available potential energy. …”

A Novel Machine Learning Algorithm for Cloud Detection Using AERI Measurement Data by Lei Liu, Jin Ye, Shulei Li, Shuai Hu, Qi Wang

“…The dataset comes from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Southern Great Plains (SGP) site and North Slope Alaska (NSA) site from 2015 to 2017, and the ARM West Antarctic Radiation Experiment (AWARE) site in 2016 is also analyzed. …”
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A microphysical parameterization for convective clouds in the ECHAM5 climate model: Single-column model results evaluated at the Oklahoma Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program... by Zhang, J, Lohmann, U, Stier, P

“…The performance of the newly implemented parameterization in simulating midlatitude continental summertime convective cloud systems is evaluated in this paper at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (ARM) Southern Great Plains (SGP) site in Oklahoma using the single-column mode (SCM) of ECHAM5. …”

Quantifying the contribution of atmospheric circulation to precipitation variability and changes in the US Great Plains and southwest using self-organizing map–analogue by Y. Zhuang, R. Fu

“…By contrasting three multi-decadal periods (1950–1976, 1977–1998, 1999–2021) with shifting PDO phases and linking the phase shift to self-organizing map (SOM) nodes, we found that circulation changes contribute considerably to the multi-decadal changes in precipitation anomaly in terms of the mean and days of dry and wet extremes, especially for the southern Great Plains (GP) and southwest. However, these circulation-induced changes are not totally related to the PDO phase shift (mostly less than half) since internal variability or anthropogenically induced changes in circulation can also be potential contributors. …”
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Using vegetation indices for soil-moisture retrievals from passive microwave radiometry by E.J. Burke, E.J. Burke, W.J. Shuttleworth, W.J. Shuttleworth, A.N. French, A.N. French

“…This paper explores the potential for using the Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) in soil-moisture retrievals from L-band (1.4 GHz) aircraft data gathered during the Southern Great Plains '97 (SGP97) experiment. A simplified version of MICRO-SWEAT, a soil vegetation atmosphere transfer (SVAT) scheme coupled with a microwave emission model, was used as the retrieval algorithm. …”
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Influences of Cloud Microphysics on the Components of Solar Irradiance in the WRF-Solar Model by Xin Zhou, Yangang Liu, Yunpeng Shan, Satoshi Endo, Yu Xie, Manajit Sengupta

“…Three stratocumulus (Sc) and five shallow cumulus (Cu) cases are simulated and evaluated against measurements at the US Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, Southern Great Plains (SGP) site. Results show that different microphysical schemes lead to spreads in simulated solar irradiance components up to 75% and 350% from their ensemble means in the Cu and Sc cases, respectively. …”
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Determining the temporal variability in atmospheric temperature profiles measured using radiosondes and assessment of correction factors for different launch schedules by D. Butterfield, T. Gardiner

“…Using these results, three additional longer term data sets were analysed (Lindenberg 1999 to 2008; Lindenberg 2009 to 2012; and Southern Great Plains 2006 to 2012) to assess the diurnal variability of temperature as a function of altitude, time of day and season of the year. …”
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Barriers to Prescribed Fire in the US Great Plains, Part I: Systematic Review of Socio-Ecological Research by Autumn S. Clark, Devan Allen McGranahan, Benjamin A. Geaumont, Carissa L. Wonkka, Jacqueline P. Ott, Urs P. Kreuter

“…Surveys were the most commonly used method to assess social perceptions, with most research concentrated in the southern Great Plains. Barriers included a range of social, informational, practical, and regulatory concerns. …”
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Interactions between Sudangrass Lines Selected for Differing Nitrate Expression and Sorghum Aphid by Rafael Hayashida, Camille Carey, Tim Springer, Bailey Knighten, J. Scott Armstrong, W. Wyatt Hoback

“…Sudangrass (<i>Sorghum sudanense</i> Stapf) is widely cultivated as a summer annual forage across the southern Great Plains because of its robust forage yield potential. …”
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Aerosol specification in single-column Community Atmosphere Model version 5 by B. Lebassi-Habtezion, P. M. Caldwell

“…Droplet concentration in the general circulation model (GCM) version of CAM5 is also shown to be far too low (~ 25 cm^&minus;3) at the southern Great Plains (SGP) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) site.…”
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Determining Critical Soil pH for Sunflower Production by Apurba Sutradhar, Romulo P. Lollato, Katy Butchee, Daryl B. Arnall

“…Soil acidity has become a major yield-limiting factor in cropping systems of the Southern Great Plains, in which winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is the predominant crop. …”
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Model consensus projections of US regional hydroclimates under greenhouse warming by Thomas J Phillips, Céline J W Bonfils, Chengzhu Zhang

“…We analyze differences among 30 year present-day and future consensus summer hydroclimates that are averaged over three disparate regions of the United States: the semi-arid Southern Great Plains, the arid Southwest, and the humid Southeast. …”
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From Hydrometeor Size Distribution Measurements to Projections of Wind Turbine Blade Leading-Edge Erosion by Fred Letson, Sara C. Pryor

“…The current work quantifies the effect of disdrometer type on the characterization of LEE potential at a site in the US Southern Great Plains. using observations from three co-located disdrometers (an optical, an impact and a video disdrometer), along with hub-height wind-speed observations from a Doppler lidar and two LEE models: a kinetic energy model and the Springer model. …”
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Human impacts on terrestrial hydrology: climate change versus pumping and irrigation by Ian M Ferguson, Reed M Maxwell

“…Here we use a fully-integrated hydrologic model to directly compare effects of climate change and water management on terrestrial water and energy budgets of a representative agricultural watershed in the semi-arid Southern Great Plains, USA. At local scales, we find that the impacts of pumping and irrigation on latent heat flux, potential recharge and water table depth are similar in magnitude to the impacts of changing temperature and precipitation; however, the spatial distributions of climate and management impacts are substantially different. …”
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