Evaluation of a Flexible Single Ice Microphysics and a Gaussian Probability-Density-Function Macrophysics Scheme in a Single Column Model by Jiabo Li, Xindong Peng, Xiaohan Li, Yanluan Lin, Wenchao Chu

“…A single-ice (SI) microphysics scheme and Gaussian probability-density-function (Gauss-PDF) macrophysics scheme were implemented in the single-column Global-to-Regional Integrated forecast System model (SGRIST) and they were tested using the Tropical Warm Pool-International Cloud Experiment (TWP-ICE) and the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Southern Great Plains Experiment in 1997 (ARM97). Their performance was evaluated against observations and other reference schemes. …”
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Analysis algorithm for sky type and ice halo recognition in all-sky images by S. Boyd, S. Sorenson, S. Richard, M. King, M. Greenslit

“…We present test results on halo observations and photographic sky type for the first 4 months of the year 2018, for TSI images obtained at the Southern Great Plains (SGP) ARM site. A detailed comparison of visual and algorithm scores for the month of March 2018 shows that the algorithm is about 90 % reliable in discriminating the four photographic sky types and identifies 86 % of all visual halos correctly. …”
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Population genetic structure of Texas horned lizards: implications for reintroduction and captive breeding by Dean A. Williams, Nathan D. Rains, Amanda M. Hale

“…The Texas horned lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum) inhabits much of the southern Great Plains of North America. Since the 1950s, this species has been extirpated from much of its eastern range and has suffered declines and local extinctions elsewhere, primarily due to habitat loss. …”
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Biases in regional carbon budgets from covariation of surface fluxes and weather in transport model inversions by I. N. Williams, W. J. Riley, M. S. Torn, S. C. Biraud, M. L. Fischer

“…Daily to seasonal covariation of surface fluxes and atmospheric transport was estimated in observations at the US Southern Great Plains Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility, and compared to an atmospheric transport model inversion (CarbonTracker). …”
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ResU‐Deep: Improving the Trigger Function of Deep Convection in Tropical Regions With Deep Learning by Mengxuan Chen, Haohuan Fu, Tao Zhang, Lanning Wang

“…Further comparisons are made with convective available potential energy‐based trigger functions in Southern Great Plains. Results show that ResU‐Deep can capture the trends and peaks of diurnal cycles on complex terrains in large regions. …”
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Estimación de la evapotranspiración real en zonas de llanura mediante productos de humedad de suelo de la misión SMAP by E. Walker, G. A. García, V. Venturini

“…Los resultados obtenidos fueron comparados con datos observados en el área de Southern Great Plains - USA (SGP), indicando que el nuevo modelo estima la ET con un error medio cuadrático (RMSE) de 0,88 mm d–1 y un coeficiente de determinación (R2) superior a 0,8. …”
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An Investigation of the Ice Cloud Detection Sensitivity of Cloud Radars Using the Raman Lidar at the ARM SGP Site by Mingcheng Wang, Kelly A. Balmes, Tyler J. Thorsen, Dylan Willick, Qiang Fu

“…The ice cloud detection sensitivity of the millimeter cloud radar (MMCR) and the Ka-band Zenith radar (KAZR) is investigated using a collocated Raman lidar (RL) at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Southern Great Plains site. Only profiles that are transparent to the RL with ice clouds only are considered in this study. …”
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Predicting the relative humidities of liquid-liquid phase separation, efflorescence, and deliquescence of mixed particles of ammonium sulfate, organic material, and water using the... by A. K. Bertram, S. T. Martin, S. J. Hanna, M. L. Smith, A. Bodsworth, Q. Chen, M. Kuwata, A. Liu, Y. You, S. R. Zorn

“…The predictions of the parameterisations were also tested against data from the Southern Great Plains, Oklahoma, USA. The observed ERH and DRH values for both the chamber and field data agreed within 5% RH with the values predicted by the parameterisations using the measured org:sulf and O:C ratios as the input variables.…”
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Stability of C₃ and C₄ Grass Patches in Woody Encroached Rangeland after Fire and Simulated Grazing by R. James Ansley, William E. Pinchak

“…As the woody legume, <i>Prosopis glandulosa</i> (honey mesquite) has encroached into grasslands and rangelands in the southern Great Plains, USA, two grass species, C₄ shortgrass, <i>Buchloe dactyloides</i> (buffalograss), and C₃ mid-grass, <i>Nassella leucotricha</i> (Texas wintergrass), have increased in dominance. …”
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Extending water vapor measurement capability of photon-limited differential absorption lidars through simultaneous denoising and inversion by W. J. Marais, M. Hayman

“…In addition, we show that by employing PTV-MPD, the MPD is able to extend its useful range of WV estimates beyond that of the ARM Southern Great Plains Raman lidar (RRMSE exceeding 100 % between 3 and 4 km); the Raman lidar has a power-aperture product 500 times greater than that of the MPD.…”
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Evaluating Starter Fertilizer Applications in Grain Sorghum Production by Josh Lofton, D. B. Arnall, Sumit Sharma, Camron Nisly

“…This research was conducted to evaluate the impact of in‐furrow starter fertilizers on grain sorghum establishment and yields in the southern Great Plains. Studies were conducted at four sites across Oklahoma in 2014 and two sites in 2015. …”
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GEWEX Cloud System Study (GCSS) cirrus cloud working group: development of an observation-based case study for model evaluation by H. Yang, S. Dobbie, G. G. Mace, A. Ross, M. Quante

“…&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; The case was based on the 9 March 2000 Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Southern Great Plains (SGP) during an intensive observation period (IOP). …”
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How quickly do cloud droplets form on atmospheric particles? by C. R. Ruehl, P. Y. Chuang, A. Nenes

“…We measured the rate of cloud droplet formation on atmospheric particles sampled at four sites across the United States during the summer of 2006: Great Smoky Mountain National Park, TN; Bondville, IL; Houston, TX; and the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Southern Great Plains site near Lamont, OK. We express droplet growth rates with the mass accommodation coefficient (α), and report values of α measured in the field normalized to the mean α measured for lab-generated ammonium sulfate (AS) particles (i.e., &amp;alpha;&apos;=α/&amp;alpha;&lt;sub&gt;AS&lt;/sub&gt;). …”
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Woody plant encroachment into grasslands: spatial patterns of functional group distribution and community development. by Feng Liu, Steven R Archer, Frances Gelwick, Edith Bai, Thomas W Boutton, Xinyuan Ben Wu

“…We addressed these questions in the Southern Great Plains, United States at a subtropical grassland known to have been encroached upon by woody species over the past 50-100 years. …”
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Calibrating radar wind profiler reflectivity factor using surface disdrometer observations by C. R. Williams, J. Barrio, P. E. Johnston, P. E. Johnston, P. Muradyan, S. E. Giangrande

“…<p>This study uses surface disdrometer reflectivity factor estimates to calibrate the vertical and off-vertical pointing radar beams produced by an ultra high frequency (UHF) band radar wind profiler (RWP) deployed at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program Southern Great Plains (SGP) Central Facility in northern Oklahoma from April 2011 through July 2019. …”
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Atmospheric temperature profile retrievals using 54 and 118-GHz spectral observations from the Proteus Aircraft by Sanchez, Andrew, 1976-

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Understanding public perspectives on fracking in the United States using social media big data by Xi Gong, Yujian Lu, Daniel Beene, Ziqi Li, Tao Hu, Melinda Morgan, Yan Lin

“…In counties across the southern Great Plains, negative attitudes towards fracking are less often vocalized on Twitter as the share of Republican voters increases. …”
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Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) airborne field campaign data products between 2013 and 2018 by F. Mei, J. M. Comstock, M. S. Pekour, J. D. Fast, K. L. Gaustad, B. Schmid, S. Tang, S. Tang, D. Zhang, J. E. Shilling, J. M. Tomlinson, A. C. Varble, J. Wang, L. R. Leung, L. Kleinman, S. Martin, S. C. Biraud, B. D. Ermold, K. W. Burk

“…The integrated dataset includes data collected from 236 flights (766.4 h), which covered the Arctic, the US Southern Great Plains (SGP), the US West Coast, the eastern North Atlantic (ENA), the Amazon Basin in Brazil, and the Sierras de Córdoba range in Argentina. …”
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Forage yield and nutritive value of summer legumes as affected by row spacing and harvest timing by Gurjinder S. Baath, Sayantan Sarkar, Bala Ram Sapkota, K. Colton Flynn, Brian K. Northup, Prasanna H. Gowda

“…Winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is an essential, high-quality forage used for grazing stocker cattle from fall to spring in the US Southern Great Plains (SGP). However, the lack of nutritious forages during summers limits grazing by stocker cattle. …”
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Palmer Amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) Adaptation to US Midwest Agroecosystems by Maxwel C. Oliveira, Amit J. Jhala, Mark L. Bernards, Christopher A. Proctor, Strahinja Stepanovic, Rodrigo Werle

“…Palmer amaranth is prevalent in the Southern Great Plains and the Southeastern United States, and its range is expanding northward through natural dispersal and human intervention. …”
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