Image Collection Simulation Using High-Resolution Atmospheric Modeling by Andrew Kalukin, Satoshi Endo, Russell Crook, Manoj Mahajan, Robert Fennimore, Alice Cialella, Laurie Gregory, Shinjae Yoo, Wei Xu, Daniel Cisek

“…This approach was demonstrated through a ground truth experiment conducted at the Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Southern Great Plains site. In this experiment, calibrated targets (colored spectral tarps) were placed on the ground, and the scene was imaged with WorldView-3 multispectral imagery at a resolution enabling the tarps to be visible in at least 9–12 image pixels. …”
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Comprehensive wheat coccinellid detection dataset: Essential resource for digital entomology by Ivan Grijalva, Nicholas Clark, Emma Hamilton, Carson Orpin, Carmen Perez, James Schaefer, Kaylynn Vogts, Brian McCornack

“…Wheat (Triticum aestivum) is a major cereal crop planted in the Southern Great Plains. This crop faces diverse pests that can affect their development and reduce yield productivity. …”
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Remote sensing of PM2.5 during cloudy and nighttime periods using ceilometer backscatter by S. Li, E. Joseph, Q. Min, B. Yin, R. Sakai, M. K. Payne

“…The model also was tested using 4 years of data (2012 to 2015) from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Southern Great Plains (SGP) site, which was geographically and climatologically different from the HUBC site. …”
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Estimation of cloud condensation nuclei concentration from aerosol optical quantities: influential factors and uncertainties by Jianjun Liu, Zhanqing Li

“…Better relationships are found between aerosol optical depth (AOD) and CCN at the Southern Great Plains (US), Ganges Valley (India) and Black Forest sites (Germany) than those at the Graciosa Island (the Azores) and Niamey (Niger) sites, where sea salt and dust aerosols dominate, respectively. …”
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Conservation Systems for Positive Net Ecosystem Carbon Balance in Semiarid Drylands by Vesh R. Thapa, Rajan Ghimire, Benjamin D. Duval, Mark A. Marsalis

“…This study evaluated SOC and net ecosystem carbon balance (NECB) of five cropping systems in the drylands of the Southern Great Plains. Cropping systems evaluated included corn (Zea mays)–sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) …”
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Influence of seasonal climatic water deficit and crop prices on rainfed crop grain harvest, repurposing, and abandonment in the western U.S.A. by Zachary H Lauffenburger, Marco P Maneta, Perry Miller, John S Kimball

“…Interestingly, winter wheat repurposing is significantly higher in the southern Great Plains (∼50% harvested for grain) compared to the rest of the West (∼90%). …”
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Regional switchgrass carbon sequestration estimates from high‐frequency eddy covariance and Mesonet observations by Kundan Dhakal, Vijaya Gopal Kakani, Pradeep Wagle, Sonisa Sharma

“…Overall, the results from this study indicate that this new scaling‐up approach involving high temporal resolution meteorological data may be a helpful tool for assessing spatiotemporal heterogeneity of switchgrass production and the potential of switchgrass fields to sequester carbon in the Southern Great Plains of the United States.…”
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Comparative study of atmospheric water vapor budget associated with precipitation in Central US and eastern Mediterranean by A. Zangvil, P. J. Lamb, D. H. Portis, F. Jin, S. Malka

“…This paper compares WVB calculations over the US Midwest (MW), the US Southern Great Plains (SGP), and the eastern Mediterranean Sea (EM) during their seasons of maximum P. …”
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Using optimal estimation to retrieve winds from velocity-azimuth display (VAD) scans by a Doppler lidar by S. Baidar, S. Baidar, T. J. Wagner, D. D. Turner, W. A. Brewer

“…This method was tested using yearlong CDL measurements at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Southern Great Plains (SGP) Central Facility in 2019. Comparison with the ARM operational CDL wind profile product and collocated radiosonde wind measurements shows excellent agreement (<span class="inline-formula"><i>R</i>²&gt;0.99</span>) with no degradation in results where the traditional VAD provided a valid solution. …”
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Flexible migration and habitat use strategies of an endangered waterbird during hydrological drought by Aaron T. Pearse, Andrew J. Caven, David M. Baasch, Mark T. Bidwell, John A. Conkin, David A. Brandt

“…Night roosts occurred primarily on private lands (86% overall); public land use decreased with latitude and increased with drought severity, with greatest use (56%) occurring during severe autumn drought in the southern Great Plains. Quantifying use of identified critical habitats in the United States indicated that Cheyenne Bottoms State Waterfowl Management Area and Quivira National Wildlife Refuge were used less during drought, and the Central Platte River and Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge received similar use during drought compared to non‐drought conditions. …”
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Refractivity Observations from Radar Phase Measurements: The 22 May 2002 Dryline Case during IHOP Project by Rubén Nocelo López, Verónica Santalla del Rio, Brais Sánchez-Rama

“…The dryline, often associated with the development of severe storms in the Southern Great Plains of the United States of America, is a boundary layer phenomenon that occurs when a warm and moist air mass from the Gulf of Mexico meets a hot and dry air mass from the southwest desert area. …”
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Hydrologic data assimilation of multi-resolution microwave radiometer and radar measurements using ensemble smoothing by Dunne, Susan Catherine

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Moth bean and tepary bean as green nitrogen sources in intensive winter wheat cropping systems by Hardeep Singh, Brian K. Northup, Prasanna H. Gowda, Peter Omara, Gurjinder S. Baath, P.V. Vara Prasad

“…Replacing summer fallow with drought tolerant legumes could serve both as a cover and a green source of N for winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and help mitigate economic and environmental problems by increasing resilience of agroecosystems in the United States (US) Southern Great Plains (SGP). Field experiments were conducted in 2018 and 2019 at the USDA - ARS Oklahoma and Central Plains Agricultural Research Center near El Reno, OK. …”
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Comparing Evapotranspiration Products of Different Temporal and Spatial Scales in Native and Managed Prairie Pastures by Rajen Bajgain, Xiangming Xiao, Pradeep Wagle, John S. Kimball, Colin Brust, Jeffrey B. Basara, Prasanna Gowda, Patrick J. Starks, James P. S. Neel

“…Grasslands in the Southern Great Plains of the United States have major ecological and economic importance, with strong climate and water cycle connections. …”
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Canola Emergence and Early Growth Were Not Affected by Allelopathic Properties of Wheat Residue by Kacie Wynne, Curtis Adams, Clark Neely, Paul DeLaune, Emi Kimura, Santanu Thapa

“…Because canola production is spreading to new areas, including the US Southern Great Plains, our objective was to evaluate the potential for allelopathic properties of wheat residue from regional cultivars to negatively impact emergence and early growth of canola. …”
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Effectiveness of Genomic Selection by Response to Selection for Winter Wheat Variety Improvement by Xiaowei Hu, Brett F. Carver, Carol Powers, Liuling Yan, Lan Zhu, Charles Chen

“…Important breeding targets for wheat improvement in the southern Great Plains of the United States, including grain yield, kernel weight, wheat protein content, and sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) sedimentation volume as a rapid test for predicting bread‐making quality, were used to estimate the effectiveness of GS across harvest years from 2014 (drought) to 2016 (normal). …”
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The Influence of Temperature Inversion on the Vertical Distribution of Aerosols by Hui Li, Boming Liu, Xin Ma, Yingying Ma, Shikuan Jin, Ruonan Fan, Weiyan Wang, Jing Fang, Yuefeng Zhao, Wei Gong

“…In this study, the relationship between temperature inversion and the vertical distribution of aerosols is investigated based on Raman lidar observations taken from January 2010 to September 2015 at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement site in the Southern Great Plains, USA. First, the diurnal and seasonal variations of the surface-based inversion (SBI) and elevated temperature inversion (EI) are investigated. …”
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Lesser prairie‐chicken population forecasts and extinction risks: An evaluation 5 years post–Catastrophic drought by Christian A. Hagen, Edward O. Garton, Grant Beauprez, Brett S. Cooper, Kent A. Fricke, Brad Simpson

“…Previous work provided a unified long‐term (1965–2012) assessment of lesser prairie‐chicken population dynamics and projections of persistence in the Southern Great Plains. Despite the final year of data collection coinciding with a record‐setting drought, lesser prairie‐chicken populations exhibited reasonable probabilities of persistence for 3 of the 4 ecoregions in which they occur. …”
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Seasonal variability of future extreme precipitation and associated trends across the Contiguous U.S. by Ishrat Jahan Dollan, Viviana Maggioni, Jeremy Johnston, Gustavo de A. Coelho, James L. Kinter

“…Specifically, seasonal accumulations present larger changes (~30% and above) in summer and lower changes (&lt; ~20%) in winter in the Southern Great Plains and the Southwestern U.S. Examining projections of extreme precipitation change across distinct quantiles provides insights into the projected variability of regional precipitation regimes over the coming decades.…”
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QTL mapping of yield components and kernel traits in wheat cultivars TAM 112 and Duster by Zhen Wang, Smit Dhakal, Mustafa Cerit, Shichen Wang, Yahya Rauf, Shuhao Yu, Frank Maulana, Wangqi Huang, Joshua D. Anderson, Xue-Feng Ma, Jackie C. Rudd, Amir M. H. Ibrahim, Qingwu Xue, Dirk B. Hays, Amy Bernardo, Paul St. Amand, Guihua Bai, Jason Baker, Shannon Baker, Shuyu Liu

“…In the Southern Great Plains, wheat cultivars have been selected for a combination of outstanding yield and drought tolerance as a long-term breeding goal. …”
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