Towards a Unified Setup to Simulate Mid‐Latitude and Tropical Mesoscale Convective Systems at Kilometer‐Scales by Andreas F. Prein, Ming Ge, Alexandra Ramos Valle, Dié Wang, Scott E. Giangrande

“…We take advantage of high‐quality MCS observations collected over the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) facilities in the US Southern Great Plains (SGP) and the Amazon basin near Manaus (MAO) to evaluate a perturbed physics ensemble of simulated MCSs with 4 km horizontal grid spacing. …”
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A balancing act: the interplay of food supply chain resilience and environmental sustainability in American cities by Michael Gomez, Caitlin Grady

“…We also found a significant per capita footprint in the environmental domains across Southern cities, specifically those along the Gulf Coast and southern Great Plains. Food supply chain resilience scores ranged from 0.18 to 0.69, with lower scores in the southwest and Great Plains, while northeastern and Midwestern regions demonstrated higher resilience. …”
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Characteristics and direct radiative effect of mid-latitude continental aerosols: the ARM case by M. G. Iziomon, U. Lohmann

“…A multi-year field measurement analysis of the characteristics and direct radiative effect of aerosols at the Southern Great Plains (SGP) central facility of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program is presented. …”
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Evaluation of gridded scanning ARM cloud radar reflectivity observations and vertical doppler velocity retrievals by K. Lamer, A. Tatarevic, I. Jo, P. Kollias

“…First, the SACR sample observations from the ARM Southern Great Plains and Cape Cod sites are post-processed (detection mask, gaseous attenuation correction, insect filtering and velocity de-aliasing). …”
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The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) sounding network: operations, processing and analysis by M. P. Jensen, T. Toto, D. Troyan, P. E. Ciesielski, D. Holdridge, J. Kyrouac, J. Schatz, Y. Zhang, S. Xie

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Tropopause Characteristics Based on Long-Term ARM Radiosonde Data: A Fine-Scale Comparison at the Extratropical SGP Site and Arctic NSA Site by Jinqiang Zhang

“…By using Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) radiosonde data that were recorded at the extratropical Southern Great Plains (SGP) and Arctic North Slope of Alaska (NSA) sites over an 18-year period (January 2003 to December 2020), this study performs a fine-scale comparison of the climatological tropopause features between these two sites that are characterized by different climates. …”
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Establishing Chickasaw plum for wildlife in northwestern Oklahoma by Adam West, Rodney E. Will, Edward Lorenzi, Fred S. Guthery

“…Abstract Chickasaw plum (Prunus angustifolia) provides cover (escape, thermal, nesting, resting) and food (foliage and fruit) for wildlife in the southern Great Plains. Establishing plum may increase abundance of some wildlife species and species diversity on areas deficient in woody cover. …”
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Observational study of the effect of metaphylaxis treatment on feedlot cattle productivity and health by William E. Maples, B. Wade Brorsen, Derrell Peel, Britt Hicks

“…Observational data were provided by a commercial feedlot in the Southern Great Plains region of the U.S.A. with an operating capacity >50,000 head. …”
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Interannual variability in associations between seasonal climate, weather, and extremes: wintertime temperature over the Southwestern United States by Kristen Guirguis, Alexander Gershunov, Daniel R Cayan

“…Changes in temperature PDFs are conditioned by different phases of El Niño-La Niña (ENSO) and the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO). In the Southern Great Plains, La Niña and/or negative PDO are associated with generally warmer conditions. …”
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Estimates of Present and Future Asthma Emergency Department Visits Associated With Exposure to Oak, Birch, and Grass Pollen in the United States by James E. Neumann, Susan C. Anenberg, Kate R. Weinberger, Meredith Amend, Sahil Gulati, Allison Crimmins, Henry Roman, Neal Fann, Patrick L. Kinney

“…Grass pollen, which is more sensitive to changes in climatic conditions, is a primary contributor to future ED visits, with the largest effects in the Northeast, Midwest, and Southern Great Plains regions. More complete assessment of the current and future health burden of pollen is limited by the availability of data on pollen types (e.g., ragweed), other health effects (e.g., other respiratory disease), and economic consequences (e.g., medication costs).…”
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Optimizing cloud motion estimation on the edge with phase correlation and optical flow by B. A. Raut, B. A. Raut, P. Muradyan, R. Sankaran, R. Sankaran, R. C. Jackson, R. C. Jackson, S. Park, S. Park, S. A. Shahkarami, S. A. Shahkarami, D. Dematties, D. Dematties, Y. Kim, Y. Kim, J. Swantek, J. Swantek, N. Conrad, N. Conrad, W. Gerlach, W. Gerlach, S. Shemyakin, S. Shemyakin, P. Beckman, P. Beckman, N. J. Ferrier, N. J. Ferrier, S. M. Collis, S. M. Collis

“…In this study, we investigate the performance and the stability of the blockwise PC method by changing the block size, the frame interval, and combinations of red, green, and blue (RGB) channels from the total sky imager (TSI) at the United States Atmospheric Radiation Measurement user facility's Southern Great Plains site. We find that shorter frame intervals, followed by larger block sizes, are responsible for stable estimates of the CMV, as suggested by the higher autocorrelations. …”
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Seismic Response of Pile Foundations in Clayey Soil Deposits Considering Soil Suction Changes Caused by Soil–Atmospheric Interactions by Ali Shojaeian, Tommy Bounds, Kanthasamy K. Muraleetharan, Gerald Miller

“…Extreme variations in weather patterns have become increasingly common across the Southern Great Plains of the United States. The soil layer in the active zone above the groundwater table is often subjected to moisture variations due to seasonal weather changes that will influence the behavior of soils, including their strength and stiffness parameters. …”
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Solar radiation affects bloat potential of wheat forage by Dariusz Piotr Malinowski, William E. Pinchak, Dipti Pitta, Byeng R. Min

“…Frothy bloat is a serious digestive disorder in cattle (Bos taurus L.) grazing winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) pastures in the Southern Great Plains of the USA. Wheat plant metabolism may be one of the factors involved in bloat occurrence. …”
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Precipitation Dynamical Downscaling Over the Great Plains by Xiao‐Ming Hu, Ming Xue, Renee A. McPherson, Elinor Martin, Derek H. Rosendahl, Lei Qiao

“…Simply choosing different physics schemes is not enough to alleviate the dry bias over the southern Great Plains, which is related to an anticyclonic circulation anomaly over the central and western parts of continental U.S. in the simulations. …”
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Grazing summer cover crops mix impact on carbonnitrogen cycling, soil water, and wheat yields by Partson Mubvumba, Paul B. DeLaune, Frank M. Hons

“…Summer fallow practice is common in the US semiarid Southern Great Plains ecoregion. Its primary objective is to store water to enhance winter wheat production for grain and grazing. …”
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Trends in the occurrence of large Whooping Crane groups during migration in the great plains, USA by Andrew J. Caven, Matt Rabbe, Jenna Malzahn, Anne E. Lacy

“…Our results indicate that large groups occur disproportionately within the 50% migration corridor, at staging areas within the first or last 20–30% of the migration path, and near conservation-managed wetlands, particularly within the southern Great Plains. Our results suggest that in addition to population growth, conspecific attraction, location within the migration corridor, and habitat loss may be contributing to large group occurrences. …”
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Comparing the cloud vertical structure derived from several methods based on radiosonde profiles and ground-based remote sensing measurements by M. Costa-Surós, J. Calbó, J. A. González, C. N. Long

“…In this study, these methods are applied to 193 radiosonde profiles acquired at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Southern Great Plains site during all seasons of the year 2009 and endorsed by Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) images, to confirm that the cloudiness conditions are homogeneous enough across their trajectory. …”
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Cloud Properties under Different Synoptic Circulations: Comparison of Radiosonde and Ground-Based Active Remote Sensing Measurements by Jinqiang Zhang, Jun Li, Xiangao Xia, Hongbin Chen, Chao Ling

“…In this study, long-term (10 years) radiosonde-based cloud data are compared with the ground-based active remote sensing product under six prevailing large-scale synoptic patterns, i.e., cyclonic center (CC), weak pressure pattern (WP), the southeast bottom of cyclonic center (CB), cold front (CF), anticyclone edge (AE) and anticyclone center (AC) over the Southern Great Plains (SGP) site. The synoptic patterns are generated by applying the self-organizing map weather classification method to the daily National Centers for Environmental Protection mean sea level pressure records from the North American Regional Reanalysis. …”
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Vertical air motion retrievals in deep convective clouds using the ARM scanning radar network in Oklahoma during MC3E by K. W. North, M. Oue, P. Kollias, P. Kollias, S. E. Giangrande, S. M. Collis, C. K. Potvin, C. K. Potvin

“…The US Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program's Southern Great Plains (SGP) site includes a heterogeneous distributed scanning Doppler radar network suitable for collecting coordinated Doppler velocity measurements in deep convective clouds. …”
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Stratocumulus and cumulus microphysics and the influencing factors by Yi ZHANG, Chunsong LU, Shenglong ZHANG, Lei ZHU, Sinan GAO

“…This study examined the aircraft observations in stratocumulus and cumulus during the Routine AAF (Atmospheric Radiation Measurement[ARM] Aerial Facility) Clouds with Low Optical Water Depths (CLOWD) Optical Radiative Observations (RACORO) field campaign over the Southern Great Plains site near Lamont, Oklahoma, US, form 22 January to 30 June 2009. …”
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