Download or read book Change in the Climate of Kansas written by F. H. Snow and published by . This book was released on 1907* with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climate of Kansas written by Kansas. State Board of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climate Change Hits Home written by Nathaniel Brunsell and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climate of Kansas written by Kansas. State Board of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perceptions of Climate and Environmental Change in Northcentral Kansas written by Iris E. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global and regional climates have changed significantly in recent decades. One of the sectors most affected by a changing climate is agriculture. While the scientific consensus is clear that climate has changed, a declining number of Americans believe in the seriousness of "global warming". Bridging this knowledge gap will require a more in depth understanding of public perceptions of climate change. The research reported here addressed public perceptions of climate and environmental change in north central Kansas and found that farmers are aware that climate has changed over their lifetimes. Local residents were found to be aware on ongoing environmental changes and adopting changes in land management practices that balance improving environmental conditions with the need to make a profit. More information is needed on what information sources and presentation styles would work best for the communication of updated information, both for communicating with farmers and with educators.
Download or read book Climate Change and Kansas written by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Policy and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assesing Impacts of Climate Change on Kansas Water Resources written by Vahid Rahmani and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Precipitation impacts hydrologic structures, agricultural production, water resources management, and recreational activities, all of which significantly affect a state's economy. Water control structure design is based on the maximum runoff rate resulting from storms with a specific return period and duration. The Rainfall Frequency Atlas (National Weather Service Technical Paper 40, 1961) (TP-40) provided statistical rainfall analysis as the basis for hydrologic structure design until the information was updated for Kansas in February 2013 (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Atlas 14, volume 8) (Atlas-14). With growing concern about the effects of global climate change and predictions of more precipitation and extreme weather events, it is necessary to explore rainfall distribution patterns using the most current and complete data available. In this work, the changes in rainfall patterns were studied using the daily rainfall data from 23 stations in Kansas and 15 stations from adjacent states with daily rainfall data of 1890 through 2012. Analysis showed an increase in extreme precipitation events in Kansas with increase in magnitude from the northwest to southeast part of the state. A comparison of results of the TP-40 analysis to period 1980-2009, showed that approximately 84% of the state had an increase in short-term rainfall event magnitudes. In addition, trend analyzes on the total annual rainfall indicated a gradual increase at 21 out of 23 stations, including eight statistically significant trends. A change-point analysis detected a significant sudden change at twelve stations as early as 1940 and as recently as 1980. The increasing trend, particularly after the significant change-points, is useful in updating water management plans and can assist with agricultural production decisions such as crop selection and new plant variety development. A comparison between 10-yr, 24-hr storms from TP-40 and Atlas-14 indicated a change of -12% to 5% in Kansas. However, the number of exceedances from the 10-yr, 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, 7-, and 10-day storms demonstrated a tendency towards more exceedances, particularly in the last five decades. Results of this study are useful for hydrologic structure design and water resources management in order to prevent accepting additional risk of failure because of the current changing climate.
Download or read book Economic Impacts of Climate Change and on Kansas written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The range of climatic changes anticipated in the United States - from rising sea levels to stronger and more frequent storms and extreme temperature events - will have real impacts on the natural environment as well as human-made infrastructures and their ability to contribute to economic activity and quality of life. These impacts will vary across regions and sectors of the economy, leaving future governments, the private sector and citizens to face the full spectrum of direct and indirect costs accrued from increasing environmental damage and disruption ... On a series of state studies, CIER collaborated with the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) which adapted the studies for their members by creating short summary reports from the full CIER studies.
Download or read book The Climate of Kansas written by Snowden Dwight Flora and published by . This book was released on 1919* with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Anthropogenic Warming on Changes of Extreme Precipitation Over Kansas City Metropolitan Area written by Kevin Walter Kandola and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report Global Warming of 1.5°C was released in 2018 it postulated about the devastating effects of a 2° C increase in global temperature, based on projections of coarse resolution global climate models (GCMs). While GCMs are useful tools to examine global- and continental-scale climate change, policy makers are more interested in climate change from regional and local perspectives. In order for municipalities to accurately prepare for the climate change impacts on their infrastructure, higher-resolution climate models are needed. This research developed a high-resolution (1-kilometer) dynamical climate downscaling framework using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) regional climate model and applied it to the Kansas City metropolitan area. Two initial simulations are first performed to reproduce a devastating storm in March 2019 known as winter storm Ulmer, which flooded major portions of the Midwest's farmlands causing an estimated $3 billion dollars in damage. These initial simulations used different landcover inputs to represent present-day, i.e., control, and historic land use as the other initial simulation. Then a suite of sensitivity experiments was designed and performed for both initial simulations to investigate potential changes to the region’s precipitation under various global warming and cooling scenarios.
Download or read book Exploring Extreme and Unusual Geology in the Stable Midcontinent written by Marcia K. Schulmeister and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The papers in this volume illustrate unique, but often overlooked, geologic events of the last 300 million years. Rock outcrops and landscapes, ranging in age from Upper Pennsylvanian through the Anthropocene, are presented that address the following themes: cyclothems, a Permian salt giant, Midcontinent kimberlite intrusions, and Midcontinent glaciation"--
Download or read book Potential Climate Change Impacts on Hydrologic Regimes in Northeast Kansas written by Christopher B. Siebenmorgen and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Plains once encompassed 160 million hectares of grassland in the central United States. In the last several decades, conversion of grassland to urban and agricultural production areas has caused significant increases in runoff and erosion. Past attempts to slow this hydrologic system degradation have shown success, but climate change could once again significantly alter the hydrology. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) studies the state of knowledge pertaining to climate change. The IPCC has developed four possible future scenarios (A1, A2, B1 and B2). The output temperature and precipitation data for Northeast Kansas from fifteen A2 General Circulation Models (GCMs) were analyzed in this study. This analysis showed that future temperature increases are consistent among the GCMs. On the other hand, precipitation projections varied greatly among GCMs both on annual and monthly scales. It is clear that the results of a hydrologic study will vary depending on which GCM is used to generate future climate data. To overcome this difficulty, a way to take all GCMs into account in a hydrologic analysis is needed. Separate methods were used to develop three groups of scenarios from the output of fifteen A2 GCMs. Using a stochastic weather generator, WINDS, monthly adjustments for future temperature and precipitation were applied to actual statistics from the 1961 -- 1990 to generate 105 years of data for each climate scenario. The SWAT model was used to simulate watershed processes for each scenario. The streamflow output was analyzed with the Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration program, which calculated multiple hydrologic indices that were then compared back to a baseline scenario. This analysis showed that large changes in projected annual precipitation caused significant hydrologic alteration. Similar alterations were obtained using scenarios with minimal annual precipitation change. This was accomplished with seasonal shifts in precipitation, or by significantly increasing annual temperature. One scenario showing an increase in spring precipitation accompanied by a decrease in summer precipitation caused an increase in both flood and drought events for the study area. The results of this study show that climate change has the potential to alter hydrologic regimes in Northeast Kansas.
Download or read book Preliminary Analysis of Changes in Kansas Weather Coincidental to Experimental Operations with a Reich Cloudbuster written by James DeMeo and published by Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory. This book was released on 2010 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A research thesis, Geography-Meteorology Department, University of Kansas at Lawrence, 1979."
Download or read book The Climate of Kansas written by Alvin B. Cardwell and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climates of the States written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Local Climate Change Impact written by Morris Tyler Willoughby and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In terms of the Kansas City metropolitan area, there is a need to look at climate change and try to limit and modify various practices in order to further understand and mitigate climate change issues. To comprehend climate change issues, it is necessary to identify the overall problem. For the purpose of this research, focus groups were established in various sectors in the Kansas City metropolitan area. The sectors included: agriculture, transportation, health, water, energy, land use, and commerce. Local stakeholders were identified for each sector and invited to participate in panel discussions. It is our goal that the input from each focus group will provide an extensive background on how each stakeholder views climate change, along with perceptions of risk, vulnerabilities, and adaptation. This information should prove vital in comprehending the effects of climate change. The debate on climate change has primarily relied upon global data and draws global climate change implications. Solutions to human caused acceleration of climate changes must be locally based - driven by local organizations and individuals. This study is based on local data of climate variability impacts with the intention to create tools and methods that provide solutions and recommendations for business planning and local public policy. This approach to regional climate science is based on a matrix of likely scenarios for the region's future; potential directions that our local economy, social structures and environment will take relative to climate change issues. We use targeted focus groups and case studies to (1) gain a better understanding of the sensitivities of different goods, services, and practices within major social and economic sectors to current climate variability and hazards; (2) quantify the risk that the natural environment poses for citizen stakeholders, the business community and craft means to prepare for and adapt to the expected changes; (3) determine critical process/resource specific environmental thresholds or non-linearities that have particular economic implications by ranking vulnerabilities under different scenarios, and (4) provide feedback to the political sector on actions that public and private sector resource managers must take to prepare for the climatological scenarios.
Download or read book Red Alert written by Daniel R. Wildcat and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'What the world needs today is a good dose of Indigenous realism,'' says Native American scholar..... Daniel Wildcat in this thoughtful, forward-looking treatise. The Native response to the environmental crisis facing our planet, Red Alert! seeks to debunk the modern myths that humankind is the center of creation and that it exerts control over the natural world. Taking a hard look at the biggest problem that we face today - the damaging way we live on this earth - Wildcat draws upon ancient Native American wisdom and nature-centered beliefs to advocate a modern strategy to combat global warming. Inspiring and insightful, Red Alert! is a stirring call to action.
