Download or read book Extreme Weather Climate Variability and the Mississippi Basin written by United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Office of Global Programs and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigating the Effects of Land Cover Change and Climate Variability on the Land Surface Hydrology of the Mississippi River Basin written by Tracy E. Twine and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mississippi Weather and Climate written by Kathleen Sherman-Morris and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Hurricane Katrina to the Mississippi River floods of 1927 and 2011, and from a high temperature of 115 degrees Fahrenheit to a low of -19, Mississippi has seen its share of weather extremes. In fact, Mississippi's rainfall can be described in terms of "feast or famine." Even during the feast years, the rain may come at the wrong time for farmers to plant crops or in unwanted quantities. The Pearl River flood of 1979 is an example of too much rain falling over a short period of time with disastrous consequences. Mississippi Weather and Climate explores some of the reasons behind these extremes. The book begins with a look at the factors that shape Mississippi's climate and then moves into a discussion of normal weather conditions. Three chapters take a closer look at some of Mississippi's most dramatic weather. Historical events including the Candlestick Park tornado, Hurricanes Camille and Katrina, and the ice storms of 1994 and 1998 are described in more detail. The book details Mississippi's past climate as well as its projected climate and explores what the future may hold for residents of the state. Finally, the last two chapters reveal how the weather and climate affect people, from the way homes were built in Mississippi's early days and the types of plants that thrive or die here to the way weather information is collected and reported in the form of a local TV weather forecast. Mississippi Weather and Climate is a fascinating look at the science behind the weather and how natural events affect the people and land in the Magnolia State.
Download or read book Evidence of Climate Change Over the Last 10 000 Years from the Sediments of Lakes in the Upper Mississippi Basin written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climate Crisis written by Acie Cargill and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is climate change in this world. A climate crisis. The entire Earth is affected and some places worse than others. What about the Mississippi River flooding? It was bad this year and may be worse next year and every year from now on unless we make major changes in our abuse of the planet. Rain, rain, and more rain. And it is still going on. Some parts of the Earth are affected by extreme heat and droughts. Severe weather like hurricanes. Melting of our polar ice caps. The high water in the Mississippi River also affects the Delta where it enters the Gulf of Mexico. This area was where fish and shrimp had their young, but this year it is not happening because of the high water in the Mississippi. I am proposing a plan here to avoid the Mississippi flooding.The idea is to get the excess water out of the Mississippi basin and send it to where it is desperately needed out West. We could dig a huge canal for thousands of miles and spend many billions of dollars or it would be much easier to reverse the flow of some rivers flowing into the Mississippi, for instance the Arkansas River, and cause that water to flow west instead. The Arkansas River joins with the Canadian River and could flow through Oklahoma where the water is needed and at present the Canadian River is almost dry in some places.From there, the water could be routed into New Mexico and even Arizona through some of the nearly dry river beds. The water could be used for agricultural purposes and human consumption and for nature and wildlife. Bring the desert to life with the water from the Mississippi that otherwise is causing massive destruction from flooding almost every year. The key is the reversal of the water flow in the rivers. An example of flow reversal is the Chicago River that was reversed to carry sewage away from Lake Michigan. It can be done and large amounts of water can be routed to the West where it is needed.
Download or read book Global Change and Climate History written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Impacts of Climate Change on Stream Flow in the Upper Mississippi River Basin written by Manoj Kumar Jha and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Louisiana Weather and Climate written by Vega, Manuel and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisiana Weather And Climate Details The How And The Who Of Annual And Seasonal Weather Episodes Seen In The State Of Louisiana, Including Tropical Depressions, Tropical Storms, Hurricanes, Severe Thunderstorms, Lightning, Heavy Rainfall, Flooding, Tornadoes, And Economically Devastating Freezes. The Frequency And Variety Of Severe And Extreme Weather Is Higher Than In Most Other Regions Of The Country, Making It Exciting Reading Not Only For Students, But Also For The General Reader Interested In Weather And Climate. This Concise Volume Is Written At A Level Accessible To All Readers, Including Beginning Students In Meteorology And Climatology Courses. It Explains The Concepts Without Employing High Levels Of Mathematical Calculations Or Scientific Discourse. It Also Addresses The Effects That Climate Change Is Likely To Have On Louisiana With Examples Related To Rising Sea Levels, Increased Frequency And Severity Of Storms, And Much More. The Text Goes On To Outline How These Weather Phenomena Will Affect The Flora, Fauna, And Human Population Of The Region.
Download or read book Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation written by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-28 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extreme weather and climate events, interacting with exposed and vulnerable human and natural systems, can lead to disasters. This Special Report explores the social as well as physical dimensions of weather- and climate-related disasters, considering opportunities for managing risks at local to international scales. SREX was approved and accepted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on 18 November 2011 in Kampala, Uganda.
Download or read book Assessment of Climatic Variability on Water Quality Quantity and Crop Productivity in Mississippi Watersheds written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study was conducted on two Mississippi watersheds. The SWAT model was applied to the Upper Pearl River Watershed (UPRW) to evaluate flow, sediment, nutrients, and fecal coliform bacteria (FCB) transport. The model was further applied to evaluate crop and sediment yields from three tillage systems (Conventional, Reduce 1, and Reduce 2) of the Big Sunflower River Watershed (BSRW). In the UPRW, flow and sediment simulations showed good to very good model performances (for flow R2 up to 0.76 and NSE up to 0.75; and for sediment R2 up to 0.72 and NSE up to 0.54). Both total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphorous (TP) simulations showed fair to good model performances (R2 up to 0.71 and NSE up to 0.63 for TN; R2 up to 0.70 and NSE up to 0.59 for TP). The FCB simulation showed good model performance (R2 up to 0.59 and NSE up to 0.58). In the BSRW, crop simulations showed good to very good model performances (for corn yield R2 up to 0.5 and NSE up to 0.9; and for soybean yield R2 and NSE up to 0.6). Furthermore, modeling outputs of the BSRW explained 64% of the water table fluctuations in the Mississippi alluvial aquifer. The future climates of the UPRW and the BSRW were evaluated for three emission scenarios (A1B, A2, and B1) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) with the help of the general circulation model, CCSM3. Simulations predict future sediment yields will increase as much as 25% in the UPRW. Both TN and TP yields will also be elevated as much as 7.3% and 14.3% respectively in future climates of the UPRW. Four best management practices (BMPs) were applied to the current and future climates in the UPRW and results showed that BMPs were able to reduce 51% of flow, 55% of sediment, 44% of TN, and 88% of TP in the baseline climate. Moreover, the effectiveness of TN removal will increase in future climates, while the effectiveness of TP removal will remain unchanged. The effects of climate variability on corn and soybean yield were insignificant in the BSRW.
Download or read book Climate Change and the Variability in the Risk of Single and Compound Climate Extremes written by Ameneh Tavakol and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extreme weather and climate events have significantly influenced society and the environment. As the world has warmed, the warmer temperatures have triggered the frequency, severity, and duration of other extremes. In this study, the spatial and temporal patterns of heatwave frequency and duration were analyzed in the Mississippi River Basin (MRB) using the validated reanalysis (NCEP-NCAR) data for 1948-2018. The heatwave was defined as at least two consecutive days when maximum temperature was higher than the 90th percentile. Over the 70-year period of study, the highest frequency of heatwaves was recorded in the west and north-west of the MRB with no significant increase over time. The results of the study confirmed the "warming hole" in the eastern-central United States with a significant decrease in the frequency of heatwaves. The longest heatwaves were found in southern and central MRB. Applying change-point analysis, an abrupt increase was found in the MRB in the percentage of area with heatwaves longer than 10 consecutive days since 1966. Impacts of heatwaves increase when multiple hazards occur simultaneously (e.g. heatwaves and high humidity) and lead to a compound extreme outcome. Heat-index was used to analyze the variability of compound high temperature and high humidity over time and space. Extreme daytime and nighttime hot-humid conditions were defined using the National Weather Services fixed thresholds. Spatially, southern MRB showed a higher frequency of extreme hot-humid events during both days and nights. There were no extreme nighttime hot-humid events in the east, west, and north-west MRB. Trend analysis discovered 16% and 8% significant upward trends in the daytime and nighttime extreme hot-humid events, respectively. In addition to single and bivariate extremes of the heatwave and hot-humid events, the trivariate extreme of hot, dry, and windy events (HDWs) was studied. Copula families, with the flexibility of modeling joint behavior of more than one variable, were applied to discover the probability of compound HDWs in the central United States. The empirical method (i.e., counting the frequency of events) was used to test the accuracy of the copula. Results discovered south-west Kansas and North Texas as hotspots, where most of the HDWs are expected. A combination of drought and heatwave, in 1980 and 2011, showed an accelerating influence on the frequency of HDWs. The dependence structure between variables (temperature, relative humidity, and wind) showed no influence on the compound HDWs in the warm season (May through September). Results suggested an increase in the risk of HDWs despite the wind speed drop in a majority of the central United States. The results of this study are useful for a better understanding of the nature and variability of single and compound extreme events in the central United States that would influence water resources, irrigation, crops, wildfire, and human, plant, and livestock health. Findings suggest a need for more effective risk management in discovered hotspots considering a changing climate.
Download or read book A Water Balance Evaluation of the Effects of Climate Variability and Human Modification on the Flow Regime of the Mississippi River 1932 1988 written by Judy Lee Hoff and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biogeochemical Dynamics at Major River Coastal Interfaces written by Thomas Bianchi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, state-of-the-art synthesis of biogeochemical dynamics and the impact of human alterations at major river-coastal interfaces for advanced students and researchers.
Download or read book Decade to Century Scale Climate Variability and Change written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1998-12-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Society today may be more vulnerable to global-scale, long-term, climate change than ever before. Even without any human influence, past records show that climate can be expected to continue to undergo considerable change over decades to centuries. Measures for adaption and mitigation will call for policy decisions based on a sound scientific foundation. Better understanding and prediction of climate variations can be achieved most efficiently through a nationally recognized "dec-cen" science plan. This book articulates the scientific issues that must be addressed to advance us efficiently toward that understanding and outlines the data collection and modeling needed.
Download or read book Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States written by U.S. Global Change Research Program and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-24 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summarizes the science of climate change and impacts on the United States, for the public and policymakers.
Download or read book Atmospheric Rivers written by F. Martin Ralph and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the standard reference based on roughly 20 years of research on atmospheric rivers, emphasizing progress made on key research and applications questions and remaining knowledge gaps. The book presents the history of atmospheric-rivers research, the current state of scientific knowledge, tools, and policy-relevant (science-informed) problems that lend themselves to real-world application of the research—and how the topic fits into larger national and global contexts. This book is written by a global team of authors who have conducted and published the majority of critical research on atmospheric rivers over the past years. The book is intended to benefit practitioners in the fields of meteorology, hydrology and related disciplines, including students as well as senior researchers.
Download or read book Review of the Draft Fourth National Climate Assessment written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change poses many challenges that affect society and the natural world. With these challenges, however, come opportunities to respond. By taking steps to adapt to and mitigate climate change, the risks to society and the impacts of continued climate change can be lessened. The National Climate Assessment, coordinated by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, is a mandated report intended to inform response decisions. Required to be developed every four years, these reports provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date evaluation of climate change impacts available for the United States, making them a unique and important climate change document. The draft Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) report reviewed here addresses a wide range of topics of high importance to the United States and society more broadly, extending from human health and community well-being, to the built environment, to businesses and economies, to ecosystems and natural resources. This report evaluates the draft NCA4 to determine if it meets the requirements of the federal mandate, whether it provides accurate information grounded in the scientific literature, and whether it effectively communicates climate science, impacts, and responses for general audiences including the public, decision makers, and other stakeholders.
